John is a past President of the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University, Virginia and the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Washington DC and serves on both boards of directors. He is also a past President of the Charles G. Koch and Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundations, Vice President of the Mont Pelerin Society and a former board member of the Philadelphia Society, to name just a few. Most notably, he currently serves as a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Institute of Economic Affairs, London, UK where he was Director General from 1993 through 2009.

Apart from his leading role in many organisations, he is a prolific author. His first two books are Margaret Thatcher: A Portrait of the Iron Lady (NYC: Algora, 2008) and Waging the War of Ideas (London: IEA, 3^rd revised and expanded edition 2007). He recently completed his new book Ladies For Liberty: Women Who Made a Difference in American History (NYC: Algora, 2011) as a Visiting Fellow of The Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC. He is also the author of three comics in the Female Force series namely Margaret Thatcher, Queen Elizabeth II and Ayn Rand.

Born in Congleton, Cheshire, John graduated from the King's School, Macclesfield, and at the London School of Economics. In 2010 he received an honorary doctorate in science from the University of Buckingham, UK and an honorary doctorate in social science from the Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala City, Guatemala, Central America which also made him an Honorary Professor.

What he presents:

- Margaret Thatcher - A Portrait of the Iron Lady

- What Margaret Thatcher Can Teach Us Today

- Beyond Left and Right - Redefining the Political Spectrum

- The Representation of Business in English Literature

- Ladies For Liberty - Women who Made a Difference in American History (based on the book by the same name)

- Regulation Without the state

- Policing a Free Society