Dr Nigel Ashford
Nigel Ashford is senior program officer at the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University. He joined IHS from the United Kingdom where he was professor of politics and Jean Monnet Scholar in European Integration at Staffordshire University, England. Dr Ashford has also directed the Principles of a Free Society Project at the Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation in Sweden, and has been a Bradley Resident Scholar at the Heritage Foundation and Visiting Scholar at the Social and Philosophy Policy Center in Bowling Green. He is a recipient of the International Anthony Fisher Trust Prize for published work which strengthens public understanding of the political economy of the free society.
Dr Ashford was also Chairman of the American Politics Group of the United Kingdom. He has been a Visiting Fellow at several national conventions, most recently Philadelphia in 2000. He has lectured in 14 countries, including the Cato Institute and Heritage Foundation in Washington DC. He is co-author of US Politics Today (Manchester University Press, 1999); Public Policy and the Impact of the New Right (St Martin's Press, 1994) and A Dictionary of Conservative and Libertarian Thought (Routledge, 1991), and numerous articles on how ideas influence US politics.