A U.S. citizen born in Argentina, Dr. Alejandro Antonio Chafuen has served for more than 20 years as President of the Atlas Network, a Washington, D.C.-based organization dedicated to helping create and nurture think tanks across the globe.  Chafuen is also President and Founder of the Hispanic American Center for Economic Research (www.hacer.org). Chafuen is on the governing board of several think tanks including the Fraser Institute in Canada, the Acton Institute in the United States and the Fundación Internacional para La Libertad (International Foundation for Liberty) in Spain.