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JOHN ALLISON
MBA, Management, 1974, Duke University
Mr. Allison is chairman of BB&T Corporation, a $152 billion financial-holding company. Mr. Allison began his service
with BB&T in 1971 and has managed a wide variety of responsibilities throughout the bank. He became president of BB&T
in 1987 and was elected chairman and CEO in July 1989. During Mr. Allison’s tenure as CEO from 1989 to 2008, BB&T
grew from $4.5 billion to $152 billion in assets. In March 2009 he joined the faculty of Wake Forest University
Schools of Business as Distinguished Professor of Practice.
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CRAIG BIDDLE
BA, Fine Arts, 1988 Virginia Commonwealth University
Mr. Biddle is the editor and publisher of The Objective Standard and the author of Loving Life: The
Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It. He is currently writing a book on the principles of
rational thinking and the fallacies that are violations of those principles.
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KRIS BINIEK
MA, Philosophy, 2008, University of South Florida
Ms. Biniek is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the University of Western Ontario, where she specializes in
ancient philosophy and ethics. She is also a student in the Objectivist Academic Center.
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HARRY BINSWANGER
PhD, Philosophy, 1973, Columbia University
Dr. Binswanger is the author of The Biological Basis of Teleological Concepts, the editor of The
Ayn Rand Lexicon and co-editor of the second edition of Ayn Rand's Introduction to Objectivist
Epistemology. Dr. Binswanger is a professor of philosophy at the Ayn Rand Institute's Objectivist Academic Center
and is a member of ARI's board of directors. He is currently working on a book on the nature of consciousness.
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THOMAS A. BOWDEN
JD, 1987, University of Maryland
Mr. Bowden is an analyst at the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights, focusing on legal issues. A former trial lawyer
and law school instructor, his work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal and many other newspapers. He is
also a contributing author in The Abolition of Antitrust (2005).
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YARON BROOK
PhD, Finance, 1994, University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Brook is president and executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute. A former finance professor, he has published in
academic as well as popular publications and is frequently interviewed in the media. He has appeared on CNN, Fox Business
Network, Fox News Channel, CNBC and PBS, among others. He lectures on Objectivism, business ethics and foreign policy at
college campuses and for corporations across America and throughout the world.
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ERIC DANIELS
PhD, American History, 2001, University of Wisconsin
Dr. Daniels is a research assistant professor at the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism. He lectures internationally
on American history and attended ARI’s Objectivist Graduate Center. He recently coauthored U.S. Economic Freedom Index:
2008 Report. He contributes to The Objective Standard and wrote a chapter for The Abolition of
Antitrust.
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WAYNE FORTUN
President and Chief Executive Officer of Hutchinson Technology, Inc.
Among other undertakings, the company manufactures the majority of the worldwide supply of suspension assemblies for all
sizes of disk drives produced by the major disk drive makers.
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MARILYN GEORGE
BS, Child Development, 1961, Iowa State University
TED GRAY
BS, Mechanical Engineering, 1965, Northeastern University
MS, Mechanical Engineering, 1971, Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute
Ms. George is a retired Montessori teacher, school owner and administrator. She has been dancing socially for twenty years.
Mr. Gray, a retired engineer, has been dancing since his teens.
Marilyn and Ted consider dancing primarily a social and romantic activity. They met each other at a dance lesson at an
Objectivist conference. As a couple they have given many formal and informal group lessons—at home, at conferences and
on a cruise ship—and occasionally enter amateur dance competitions.
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ONKAR GHATE
PhD, Philosophy, 1996, University of Calgary
Dr. Ghate is a senior fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute. He teaches at the Institute’s Objectivist Academic Center, speaks
on philosophy and Objectivism across North America, and publishes scholarly articles on Ayn Rand’s fiction and philosophy.
He has also appeared as a guest on BBC radio, CNBC, CBS Evening News and Fox News Channel.
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ALLAN GOTTHELF
PhD, Philosophy, 1975, Columbia University
Dr. Gotthelf is a visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh, where he holds the University’s Fellowship for
the Study of Objectivism. A renowned Aristotle scholar, he is author of On Ayn Rand
(Wadsworth, 2000) and has lectured on Objectivism throughout the United States and in Canada, Europe and Japan.
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FRANCISCO GUTIERREZ
MS, Intelligent Systems (Artificial Intelligence), 2002, ITESM, Monterrey, Mexico
Mr. Gutierrez is a nightlife promoter in Denver, specializing in Spanish rock and Latin nightclubs. He is originally
from Mexico, and has been dancing Salsa for a long time. He spent many years writing Artificial Intelligence software.
He is currently an Applied Math student at CU Denver and a student in the Objectivist Academic Center.
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ELAN JOURNO
BA, Philosophy, 1997, King's College, London
Elan Journo is a fellow at the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights, focusing on foreign policy. His articles have appeared
in such publications as the Los Angeles Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Chicago Sun-Times and
The Objective Standard. He has spoken at college campuses and given numerous radio interviews on U.S. foreign
policy.
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ELLEN KENNER
PhD, Psychology, 1992, University of Rhode Island
Dr. Kenner, a clinical psychologist in private practice, and host of a nationally syndicated radio talk show, The Rational
Basis of Happiness® (ranked in the top 250 national shows by Talkers Magazine), has given workshops on a wide
variety of topics in psychology, including romance, communication skills, self-help and parenting skills.
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ROBERT KNAPP
PhD, Mathematics, Princeton University, 1972
Dr. Knapp is a software engineer at Siemens. A former mathematician, he taught graduate and undergraduate mathematics
at Purdue University, published work on differential geometry, and was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study
in Princeton. He is writing a book on the relationship of mathematics to the world.
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ANDREW LEWIS
Postgraduate Diploma of Philosophy, 1994, University of Melbourne, Australia
Mr. Lewis has studied philosophy at the Objectivist Academic Center, the University of Melbourne (Australia) and the
University of Southern California. He worked with Dr. Peikoff on his radio show, and is assistant director at
VanDamme Academy. He is currently preparing a history curriculum, covering ancient, European and American history,
for middle and high school students.
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JOHN LEWIS
PhD, Classics, 2001, University of Cambridge
Dr. Lewis is visiting associate professor of political science at Duke University. He is senior research scholar in
history and classics at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center, and an Anthem Fellow. A writer for The Objective
Standard, his books are Solon the Thinker: Political Thought in Archaic Athens and Early Greek
Lawgivers.
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EDWIN A. LOCKE
PhD, Industrial Organizational Psychology, 1964, Cornell University
Dr. Locke is Dean’s Professor (Emeritus) of Motivation and Leadership at the R. H. Smith School of Business at the
University of Maryland, College Park. He is internationally known for his research and writings on work motivation
and related topics and has received numerous scholarly awards. He has given many lectures and courses at
Objectivist conferences.
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LEE PIERSON
Ph.D., 1982, Psychology, Cornell University
Dr. Pierson, Director of the Thinking Skills Institute at Fairleigh Dickinson University, was James Gibson’s last
graduate student. He teaches students and business professionals how to make the most of their thinking abilities by
making the right introspectively-guided volitional choices of what to think about next.
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GREG SALMIERI
PhD, Philosophy, 2008, University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Salmieri is currently a visiting assistant professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill. His research interests are in ancient philosophy (especially Aristotle) and in epistemology and the
foundations of ethics.
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PETER SCHWARTZ
MA, Journalism, 1972, Syracuse University
Mr. Schwartz is the author of The Foreign Policy of Self-Interest: A Moral Ideal for America and
editor/contributing author of Ayn Rand’s Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution. He is the
founding editor and publisher of The Intellectual Activist and a former chairman of ARI’s board of
directors.
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SANDRA SCHWARTZ
MS, Finance, 1973, State University of New York at Binghamton
Mrs. Schwartz has been an opera aficionado and a passionate observer of the opera scene for forty years. She has
taught opera appreciation classes, specializing in the operas of Verdi, at Objectivist summer conferences and
privately since 1979. Mrs. Schwartz produced the Second Renaissance summer conferences from 1994 to 2001.
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TARA SMITH
PhD, Philosophy, 1989, The Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Smith is a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas, where she is the BB&T Chair for the Study of
Objectivism and Anthem Foundation fellow. She is the author of Moral Rights and Political Freedom,
Viable Values, Ayn Rand’s Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist, as well as numerous articles.
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LISA VANDAMME
BA, Philosophy, 1994, University of Texas at Austin
Ms. VanDamme is the owner and director of VanDamme Academy, a private school in Laguna Hills, California, where she
is head of the administration and teaches grammar and literature. Ms. VanDamme’s theoretical work focuses on the
application of Objectivism to literature and educational theory.
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BARRY WOOD
PhD, History of Art and Architecture, 2002, Harvard University
Barry Wood is an art historian with experience in both museum work and university teaching. He has also lectured
internationally on subjects ranging from Persian poetry to Web design. Dr. Wood currently teaches in the Humanities
program at Bosphorus University in Istanbul, Turkey.
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