Senior Fellows

Emil Hierhold is a consultant for executive communication skills, strategic messaging, and public speaking. He has a law degree from Vienna, has been a marketing executive for national and multinational companies and is founder of HPS, an institute specializing in training and consulting for business communications. His focus is on supporting top executives’ communication skills in the areas of strategic messaging and public speaking. He has published three handbooks on business communication skills.

Dan Mitchell is a public policy economist in Washington, D.C. He has been a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, a Senior Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, an economist for Senator Bob Packwood and the Senate Finance Committee, and a Director of Tax and Budget Policy at Citizens for a Sound Economy. He has published in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Investor’s Business Daily and The Washington Times. Dr. Mitchell received a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree from the University of Georgia. He holds a PhD in economics from George Mason University.

Markus Tomaschitz is Vice President Corporate Human Resources at AVL. He has held various executive positions in companies across Europe and the US. Dr. Tomaschitz holds an M.B.A. from California State University, East Bay, and a Ph.D. from Karl Franzens University in Graz, Austria.

Jeffrey A. Tucker is Editorial Director for the American Institute for Economic Research. He is also a managing partner of Vellum Capital, Honorary Fellow of Mises Brazil, founder and Chief Liberty Officer of Liberty.me, an adviser to blockchain application companies, past editorial director of the Foundation for Economic Education and Laissez Faire Books, founder of the CryptoCurrency Conference, and author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and eight books in 5 languages.