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Libertarian AllianceLibertarian Alliance, two British free market and civil liberties organisations with the same name, founded in 1982 after a split of the original Libertarian Alliance, founded in 1967 from Young Libertarians, the youth organisation of Society for Individual Freedom.The Libertarian Alliance, led by Timothy Evans and Sean Gabb, is a leading British free market and civil liberties think tank. Currently, the alliance has over 700 pamphlets in print, and has published more than 150 authors. The Libertarian Alliance, an independent, non-party group, brought together by a shared desire to work for a free society. Their declared principles are: • The right of all persons to
life, liberty and justly acquired property.
• The voluntary exchange of all goods and services. • Each individual's liberty to pursue his or her chosen lifestyle and to promote it by peaceful persuasion, but not to impose it forcibly on anyone else. • Elimination of coercive intervention by the state, the foremost violator of liberty. About the Libertarian Alliance A Brief History of the Libertarian Alliance Officers of the Libertarian Alliance See also The Libertarian Alliance (LA) is Britain’s leading free market and civil liberties think tank. It currently has more than 700 publications in print dedicated to the principles of life, liberty and property. Publishing on average one new paper a week the LA’s pamphlets are ideal for students, academics and journalists and anyone else interested in liberty and freedom. The LA holds a range of meetings and seminars and its spokespeople regularly appear in the press and on television and radio. We hope you enjoy your trawl through http://www.libertarian.co.uk The Libertarian Alliance (LA) was formed in 1967 and is Britain’s most radical free market and civil liberties think tank - hosting the world’s second largest libertarian web site after the CATO Institute in Washington DC www.cato.org The LA currently has more than 700 pamphlets in print and has published more than 150 authors. It has attracted widespread press and media interest and has been at the forefront of establishing libertarian ideas as an important part of modern political discourse. The Purpose and Strategy of the Libertarian Alliance was published as LA Tactical Notes No.1 in 1981 and is available on this web site. It remains the best introductory guide to the organisation by underlining its primary purpose to explain radical free market ideas to members of the public be they students, journalists, businessmen, academics, government officials or anyone else interested in the future. Building up an influential network of free market scholars and commentators throughout the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and beyond, has enabled the Libertarian Alliance to become the major global publishing operation that it is. Contents 1.Officers of the Libertarian Alliance 2.Advisory Council of the Libertarian Alliance 3."They also serve" Brian Micklethwait is the Deputy Director of the Libertarian Alliance. A graduate in sociology from Essex University, he oversees the editing and production of the LA’s publications. One of Britain’s most prolific and challenging libertarian writers, Brian is often heard on the radio and to a lesser extent on television and in the press. Host of the regular monthly libertarian speaker meetings known affectionately as ‘Brian’s Friday Evenings’, these popular events always take place on the last Friday of every month. For more information contact Brian via email at brian@libertarian.co.uk or call him on 44 (0)20 7821 5502. Dr Sean Gabb’s career has spanned the worlds of business, government service, academia, journalism, the media, politics and public affairs. He is an experienced broadcaster on both radio and television, and has appeared on programmes in Britain, the USA, Canada, Argentina, Sudan and various world-wide networks. He has notched up over 250 appearances on major new programmes, documentaries, debate programmes and chat shows, including Newsnight, The Midnight Hour, Scottish Question Time, The World Tonight and The People’s Parliament . He is consulted as an expert on civil liberties issues, economic freedom and the open society. A prolific writer, his essays and monographs have been published by a wide rnage of institutions, including the Social Affairs Unit, the Independent Healthcare Association, the Adam Smith Institute, the Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking and of course the Libertarian Alliance, on such topics as constitutional law, health policy, religious freedom, civil liberties, history and economics and economic policy. He is editor of the journal of the Libertarian Alliance, Free Life and of Free Life Commentary an electronic newsletter. The LA’s Webmaster, he also regularly appears on the media as a Libertarian Alliance spokesman. For more information his personal web site can be found at http://www.seangabb.co.uk Dr Gabb can be emailed at sean@libertarian.co.uk His mobile telephone number is 07956 472199. Dr Tim Evans is Executive Director of Public Affairs at the Independent Healthcare Association (IHA) where he oversees the political affairs and public relations of one of the UK’s largest economic sectors. The independent health and social care sector employs 750,000 people and turns over more than twenty billion pounds a year. He is a former Assistant Director of the Foundation for Defence Studies and a Senior Policy Consultant at the Adam Smith Institute. In 1991, he was appointed as the Chief Economic and Political Adviser to the Slovak Prime Minister in the former Czechoslovakia and was Head of the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit. In 1993, he obtained his doctorate from the London School of Economics. A committed libertarian, he has taught post-graduate students Social Policy at London’s Guildhall University and the Economics and Politics of the Future on the Strategic Command Course of Britain’s Police Staff College at Bramshill. An author of numerous books, monographs and articles he has lectured internationally on a wide range of subjects. He lives in central London with his wife Helen and two cats - Basil and Freddie. Dr Evans holds regular monthly libertarian meetings in association with the Libertarian Alliance. Called the Putney Debates they are now in their fifteenth year and are always hosted on the second Friday of each month. An active fund raiser for the Libertarian Alliance he also acts as a media spokesman on a wide range of topics including welfare, health and even the privatisation of policing. He can be contacted via his email at tim@libertarian.co.uk His mobile telephone number is 07956 969523. David Farrer is Finance Director of the Libertarian Alliance. He has a BA (First Class Honours) in Modern History and Economics, is a qualified Chartered Secretary and a member of both the Institute of Directors and the Institute of Management. David provides business services through his company, Midlothian Management Ltd. As well as subscribing to the Institute of Economic Affairs and the David Hume Society, he is a member of the International Society for Individual Liberty through which he met his wife Pam. David is a Rothbardian natural rights Libertarian with a particular interest in the politics of his native Scotland in which he lives. In the nineteen-eighties, he was candidate for the Hampstead constituency for the Campaign to Abolish the Greater London Council. He can be contacted via his email farrer@libertarian.co.uk Nigel Meek is the Editorial Director of the Libertarian Alliance. He graduated in 1996 as a mature student with a B.Sc in Psychology and followed in 1998 with an MA in Applied Social and Market Research. He has most recently worked in the market research industry and the support side of further education. Currently studying for a PhD, Nigel oversees maintenance of LA’s subscriber lists. He can be contacted at nigel@libertarian.co.uk Mario Huet is the Listmaster of the Libertarian Alliance. Having a long standing interest in computers he oversees the day to day running of the LA Forum. He can be contacted at his email mario@libertarian.co.uk David Davis is a founder member of the Libertarian Alliance. He has worked in public relations and has had his own business. He can be contacted at david@libertarian.co.uk Perry de Havilland is a graduate from Rutgers University in New Jersey USA where he studied Economics. A trans-Atlantic entrepreneur with a background in commodity brokerage, public sector finance and investment banking his most recent business venture has been the establishment of a specialist data services company in the UK. A passion for business network development, information technology and on-line journalism, he wishes to develop these into natural conduits for libertarian ideas. He is responsible for Libertarian Samizdata - a libertarian blog - which works in association with the Libertarian Alliance. It can be found at samizdata.net/blog/ He can be contacted via email at perry@libertarian.co.uk He can also be contacted via his mobile telephone 07813 300013. Patrick Crozier is a systems analyst and computer programmer. A former parliamentary researcher to Phillip Oppenheim, Bill Cash and David Trimble his has written a number of publications for the Libertarian Alliance and is today its Transport spokesman. He can be contacted via email at patrick@libertarian.co.uk or on telephone number 020 8286 9563. David Carr is the Libertarian Alliance’s Legal Affairs spokesman. A graduate in law from Trent Polytechnic he is today a practicing solicitor. An active libertarian who has written a number of LA papers over the years he can be contacted via email at carr@libertarian.co.uk or on his mobile telephone number 07951 777307. Hubert Jongen lives in the Netherlands. He is the President of the Libertarian International - www.libertarian.to - and a founding father of the European libertarian movement. He can be contacted via his email address at hubert@libertarian.co.uk Christian Michel dropped out of the Sorbonne University in Paris. He then undertook odd jobs in the film and advertising industries before becoming a telex operator at an American stock broking firm. Working his way up the corporate ladder he eventually because finance director of a public company in Geneva. In 1986, he bought his employer’s small portfolio management unit. It grew into one of the largest trust and corporate services companies, with twelve offices throughout Europe. Having sold the business to his partners, Christian Michel moved to London in June 2000. He is the author of ‘La Liberte, deux ou trois choses que je sais d’elle’ published by the Institut Economique de Paris in 1986 and numerous articles and conference papers. Founder of http://www.liberalia.com he can be contacted via email at christian@libertarian.co.uk
We would also like to mention those many supporters who continue to contribute to the Libertarian Alliance’s activities by way of financial contributions, envelope stuffing, computer assistance, HTML conversions and so forth. A very long list, they include:
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