Radovan Durana

Rado is from the Žilina area in Slovakia. After completing his studies at the Faculty of Management at Komensky University in Bratislava, he worked as a credit risk analyst for a commercial bank. He currently works as an analyst at the Institute of Economic and Social Studies (INESS), a non-profit that he co-founded in 2006 in Bratislava. INESS specializes in studies on public finance, taxes, labor issues, and the energy sector.

When Rado is not writing policy papers or speaking at international conferences, he enjoys skiing, hiking, camping, and exotic adventures in the Amazon rain forest.

To make this camp a great success, Rado has worked tirelessly to organize the accommodations, finances, equipment, and student recruitment.

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Glenn Cripe

Glenn has lived and worked (software development, consulting, and training) in over 10 cities in the U.S. and overseas, including Chicago, Dallas, New Orleans, Richmond, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Padova, and Sydney. He currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, where he registered LLI in May of 2005 as a non-profit corporation.

During the months between camps, Glenn works to find teachers and funding, expand our network, and publicize the camp, by attending and speaking at conferences and seminars around the world. Glenn's special contribution is his knowledge of computer systems, web site work, and development of training programs. During the camp, Glenn will assist the other teachers as needed, making sure that classes run smoothly and reviewing each day's results in a brief Staff meeting.

When he is not planning interesting training programs in faraway places, Glenn enjoys playing classical music and show tunes on the piano, especially when he can accompany singers and other instrumentalists.

A special adventure for Glenn was helping to translate and publish the works of Ayn Rand in Russian, and to track down the places where she lived. Click here to see photos of the books and the locations.

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Michal Piotrowski

Mike is a member of KoLiber, a liberal NGO in Poland. He lives in Lublin, and will help us to organize groups of students for the camp.

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Jacek Spendel

Jacek is the President of KoLiber and lives in Katowice. He will help us to organize groups of students for the camp.

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Martha Stahl

Now a German citizen living in Berlin, Martha is originally from the Dominican Republic. She has worked for many years in both countries as a consultant and trainer in the field of Quality Management. She has also worked with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation to increase participation in local liberal politics, especially by immigrants who have become German citizens. Martha's current project at the University of Hamburg combines her experience in both politics and economics.

Martha enjoys reading about different religions and classical liberal politics and philosophy, and thinking of ways to teach people to use all these ideas to achieve the well-being of the community, and not just the pursuit of power.

At the English camp, Martha will use her organizational and motivation skills, and her love of good music and salsa dancing, to assist the staff and to coordinate the evening social activities.

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Nick Cowen

Nick recently completed his degree in Philosophy, with honors, from University College London, specializing in the philosophy of John Locke and Robert Nozick. In addition to his studies, he took an active part in departmental committees and student publications. Other student activities included chairing the debating society, directing and managing stage plays, and tutoring children in math and English.

Currently Nick lives in London, and works as a research assistant at Civitas, a free-market think-tank, where he researches and writes on school choice and general education policy.

Other projects and interests of Nick's include web site development and marketing, internet culture, chess, and foreign languages (Latin, Greek, French).

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Achim Dörfer

Achim practices law in Göttingen, Germany. His firm specializes in trade cases in eastern Europe, and he travels there frequently.

Achim is also active in the liberal immigration association LTD, where he is a director.

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Andy Eyschen

Andy is a management consultant from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, an Australian citizen, originally from Luxembourg. Andy's special contribution to LLI and the English camp is his broad experience with consulting, organizational development, and training programs.

During the camp, Andy will teach classes about entrepreneurship.

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Christian Michel

Christian lives in London, where he advises several non-profit organisations, and gives frequent lectures and seminars. He spent many years living and studying in Paris, then in the 1980's, he started a trust and corporate financial services company in Geneva. The company grew rapidly by offering protection to individuals worldwide against unfair taxation and bureaucratic encroachments. He eventually sold his company, and left Geneva for London.

Christian is a board member and president of Libertarian International, a director of ISIL, and a committee member of the Libertarian Alliance. He speaks frequently at libertarian conferences around the world, and has written many books and articles, with titles such as

• La Liberté, deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle
• Restitution: Justice in a Stateless Society
• The Class Struggle Is Not Over
• Capitalism and the Wisdom of the Elders
• The End of the Warrior

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