Officers of The Association of Private Enterprise Education

APEE Officers

Giancarlo Ibárgüen, President

Gerald P. Dwyer, Vice-President

J. R. Clark, Secretary / Treasurer

Edward Stringham, Past-President & Editor of The Journal of Private Enterprise

Gerald Gunderson, Associate Editor of The Journal of Private Enterprise

What We Do

APEE Officers

APEE Executive Committee

APEE In Action

Giancarlo Ibárgüen S.- Vice President
Rector/ President
Universidad Francisco Marroquín
6 Calle final, zona 10
Guatemala, Guatemala 01010
502-2338-7800
Email: gis@ufm.edu.gt

Jerry Dwyer is a vice president in the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Dr. Dwyer conducts research, focusing primarily on financial and monetary economics, and coordinates the research analysis of the department's financial economists. His research has been published in leading economics and finance journals as well as Federal Reserve Bank publications.

Prior to joining the Bank, Dr. Dwyer was a professor of economics at Clemson University. He also has been a faculty member at the University of Houston, Emory University and Texas A&M University. He has been associated with the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

Dr. Dwyer holds a bachelor's degree in business, government and society from the University of Washington, a master's degree in economics from the University of Tennessee, and a doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago.

Gerald P. Dwyer
Vice President Research Department
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
1000 Peachtree Street N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30309-4470
Telephone: 404-498-7095
Email: Gerald.P.Dwyer@atl.frb.org

J.R, Clark J.R. Clark earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute under the Nobel Laureate James Buchanan. He holds the Probasco Chair at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and is the author of numerous books and academic articles published in the United States, Japan, Canada, and Russia. Prior to coming to UTC, Clark was with the Joint Council on Economic Education in New York, chaired a large economics department in New Jersey, held the Hendrix Chair, and was a research fellow at Princeton University. Dr. Clark's consulting experience includes Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, universities, and publishing firms. He has performed litigation support for law firms in personal injury, wrongful death, business evaluations and matrimonial cases. He has received significant grants in entrepreneurship from the J. Howard Pew Freedom Foundation Trust, is past President of the Association of Private Enterprise, and sits on the boards of the Palmer R. Chitester Fund and William B. Cockroft Foundation.

J. R. Clark
Probasco Chair of Free Enterprise
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
313 Fletcher Hall, Dept. 6106
615 McCallie Avenue
Chattanooga, TN 37403-2598
Telephone: (423) 425-4118
Fax: (423) 425-5218
Email: J-Clark@utc.edu

Edward Stringham joined the faculty of San Jose State University after receiving his Ph.D. from George Mason University in 2002. He is the editor of two books including Anarchy, State and Public Choice, and author of numerous articles in journals including the Quarterly Review of Economics & Finance, Managerial Finance, Review of Political Economy, American Journal of Economics & Sociology, and Journal of Labor Research. His work has been discussed in the San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, Oakland Tribune, Miami Tribune, and dozens of other newspapers. He is winner of Paper of the Year Award from the Association of Private Enterprise, Best Article Award from the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, Second Place in the Independent Institute Garvey Contest, and Distinguished Young Scholar Award from the Liberalni Institute and the Prague School of Economics.

Edward Stringham
Department of Economics
San Jose State University
San Jose, CA 95192-0114
Telephone: (408) 924-5419
Fax: (408) 924-5406
Email: edward.stringham@sjsu.edu
Website: http://www.sjsu.edu/stringham

About APEE

Dr. Gerald Gunderson is the Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of American Business and Economic Enterprise, and Director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Endowment at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, positions he assumed in 1982. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Washington, 1967, with a thesis in economic history supervised by Douglass North, Nobel Laureate. He has held faculty appointments at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Mount Holyoke College and North Carolina State University. Professor Gunderson has published numerous academic papers, including studies of the cause of the American Civil War, the demise of the Roman Empire, and models of entrepreneurship. He also has authored columns in more than twenty newspapers in the U.S., including The Wall Street Journal. He has worked with national professional associations concerning entrepreneurship, economic and business history, private enterprise systems, economic education, and public policies. He has served as President of the Association of Private Enterprise Education and as the long-time Editor of the Journal of Private Enterprise. He was a founding member and is a member of the Executive Board as well as the director of the Academic Advisory Board for the Yankee Institute for Public Policy Studies. He received the Freedom Foundation's award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education in 1980. He was appointed by the Governor to the Educational Improvement Panel to develop solutions to poor public schooling in Connecticut. Dr. Gunderson is the author of The New Economic History of America (McGraw-Hill, 1974) and The Wealth Creators: An Entrepreneurial History of the United States (E.P. Dutton, 1989) which Peter Drucker, the mentor of modern management, described as "brilliant". Currently he is completing a book analyzing the role of entrepreneurship in the global economy, Stealthy Revolutionaries: Worldwide, Unstoppable, Transmuting Entrepreneurship.

Gerald Gunderson
Shelby Cullom Davis Professor
Trinity College
300 Summit Street
Hartford, CT 06106-3100
Telephone: (860) 297-2395
Fax: (860) 297-5111
Email: Gerald.Gunderson@mail.trincoll.edu