Gregory Fossedal is a senior fellow of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, a research foundation that studies the spread and perfection of democracy. He was AdTI's founding chairman and has served as an AdTI director since 1985. He is also an advisor to a number of investors on national and global ideopolitical trends. Mr. Fossedal writes about political and economic affairs for United Press International and for such publications as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. His research has also appeared in the Financial Times, The New Republic, Barron's, The Washington Post, Commentary, Reader's Digest, and numerous other publications. Gregory Fossedal is the author of several critically acclaimed books, including The Democratic Imperative, which heralded the rise of democratic regimes and the U.S. role in promoting them on its publication in spring, 1989. (New Republic Books). New York's Newsday called it "visionary and inspiring," while The New York Times reviewed it as "brilliant... a witty, carefully reasoned, scholarly, and optimistic report on the state of democracy and what the United States can do about it." The book carried endorsements by Richard Nixon, Jack Kemp, and Albert Gore. His most recent book is Direct Democracy in Switzerland (Transaction Publishers, 2002). The book enjoyed favorable reviews by Brian Beedham of The Economist at UPI, Arnold Beichman in The Washington Times, Markus Somm of Tages Anzeiger, and NPR's Eric Weiner in Salon.com, and was praised by NASDAQ stock exchange CEO Al Berkeley, former Clinton advisor Richard Holbrooke, Swiss and EU parliamentarian Andreas Gross, former Congresswoman Pat Schroeder, and others. From 1998 to 2004, Fossedal was president of Emerging Markets Group, an independent research and investment consulting firm. From 1992 to 1997, he directed the emerging markets division at Lehrman Bell Mueller Cannon in Arlington, Virginia. From 1986 to 1991, Fossedal was a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. From 1983 to 1986, he was an editorial writer for The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Fossedal graduated Dartmouth College in 1981 Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa. His senior thesis on the Shakesepeare sonnets was voted Highest Honors by vote of the English department faculty. Further information on his writings is available at the Tocqueville Institution web site, www.adti.net. |
