ACADEMICS

Faculty

ILA 2012

Political Philosophy Faculty

Dr. Brad Thompson
Clemson University

Dr. Thompson

Dr. Thompson is the BB&T Research Professor at Clemson University and the Executive Director of the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism. He has also been a visiting fellow at Princeton and Harvard universities and at the University of London. Professor Thompson is the author of the prize-winning book John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty.
Dr. Thompson has also edited The Revolutionary Writings of John Adams, Antislavery Political Writings, 1833-1860: A Reader and was an associate editor of the four-volume Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. His current book project is on “The Ideological Origins of American Constitutionalism.” Dr. Thompson is also an occasional writer for The Times Literary Supplement of London. He has lectured around the country on education reform and the American Revolution, and his op-ed essays have appeared in scores of newspapers around the country and abroad. Dr. Thompson's lectures on the political thought of John Adams have twice appeared on C-SPAN television.

Economics Faculty

Dr. Augusto Salinas
Universidad de los Andes

Dr. Salinas

Professor Salinas has a Ph.D in History from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and a Master of Arts in Science History and a Masters in Higher Education at University of Wisconsin. He was a visiting professor at Georgetown University and a Lecturer at University of Wisconsin. Professor Salinas was a Fulbright Fellow and is a member of the American Association of History of Science. His current research topics at Universidad de los Andes are Science and Technology History, University History and Cultural Environment of Innovation.

Dr. Juan Ignacio Brito
Universidad de Los Andes

Dr. Brito

Dr. Brito is a graduate of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He received his Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He now serves as a professor of Communication at the University of the Andes, and is also the Associate Opinion Editor at the newspaper La Tercera.

Jaime Bellolio
Universidad Católica de Chile

Prof. Bellolio

Jaime Bellolio is Vice Director at the Jaime Guzmán Foundation. He is a professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where he teaches Microeconomics and Introduction to Public Policy to undergraduate students. He is also a visiting professor at Universidad del Desarrollo a the Masters Program in Public Policy. He received his Masters in Public Policy at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. He is currently undergoing research in the areas of Education Economy and Human Capital, Public Policies Analysis in issues such as poverty, family and development and social projects evaluation.