Gregory Fossedal
Encyclopedia
Gregory Fossedal is the self-described chairman of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution
(AdTI).
Fossedal, Gordon Haff, Benjamin Hart, and Keeney Jones founded the right-wing Dartmouth Review in 1980. Fossedal graduated from Dartmouth College
in 1981 magna cum laude with an A.B. in English Literature. His senior thesis on the Shakespearean sonnets was voted Highest Honors by the English department faculty.
Alexis de Tocqueville Institution
The Alexis de Tocqueville Institution is a Washington, D.C.–based conservative think tank that produced reports and policy research....
(AdTI).
Fossedal, Gordon Haff, Benjamin Hart, and Keeney Jones founded the right-wing Dartmouth Review in 1980. Fossedal graduated from Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...
in 1981 magna cum laude with an A.B. in English Literature. His senior thesis on the Shakespearean sonnets was voted Highest Honors by the English department faculty.
Past positions
- 1998 - 2004, president of Emerging Markets Group. http://www.dcfund.net/
- 1992 - 1997, director of the emerging markets division at Lehrman Bell Mueller Cannon in Arlington, Virginia.
- 1986 - 1991, research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
- 1983 - 1986, editorial writer for The Wall Street JournalThe Wall Street JournalThe Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....
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Current positions
- Chief Investment Officer, Democratic Century FundDemocratic Century FundThe Democratic Century Fund was created in 1998, to fund democratic development projects.It is managed by the Emerging Markets Group.-Board of Directors:*Daniel Mahony, Chairman, EMG Fund Management...
, managed by the Emerging Markets Group. - Member of the Board of Directors of the Democracy Foundation.
- Senior associate of SRS Investments in Zurich, Switzerland. The firm advises investors on national and global ideopolitical trends, and develops investment products for the securities industry.
- UPI columnist.
- Executive committee chairman of the Ernest Martin Hopkins Institution, an independent association of Dartmouth alumni which encourages conservative social and political activists at the College
- Associate Editor of EducationNews.org
Selected publications
- Direct Democracy in Switzerland, (Transaction Publishers, 2002) http://ni4d.us/library.htm http://www.adti.net/ddis/ddis_swiss.html. Fossedal makes a strong case for the introduction of the Swiss style of government in other Western European countries, the United States and many of the globe's nascent democracies. Fossedal shares his views on the benefits and viability of direct democracy and how and why it should be implemented elsewhere in the world.
- The Democratic Imperative (New Republic Books, 1989), economic and political history
- Marshall Plan Commemorative Section: Miles to Go: From American Plan to European Union Helmut Schmidt. A look back at perhaps the most important foreign policy success of the postwar period. Edited by Peter Grose, with contributions by historians Diane B. Kunz and David Reynolds, a memoir by Charles P. Kindleberger, a profile of Marshall and Acheson by James Chace and one of Will Clayton by Gregory Fossedal and Bill Mikhail; reflections from Roy Jenkins, Walt Rostow, and Helmut Schmidt.
- Our Finest Hour (Stanford University, Hoover Press, 1993), economic and political history