Our People
Executive Director

Benjamin Powell is the executive director of the Free Market Institute and a professor of economics in the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration.
Associate Managing Director

Charles Long is the associate managing director of the Free Market Institute and an instructor of applied business economics in the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration.
Faculty

Jamie Bologna Pavlik is a research fellow at the Free Market Institute and an assistant professor of agricultural and applied economics in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources.

Bryan Cutsinger is a research assistant professor at the Free Market Institute and an assistant professor of economics at the Norris-Vincent College of Business at Angelo State University. He is also the assistant director for Free Market Institute programming at Angelo State University.

Kevin Grier is Gordon Tullock Professor of Political Economy at the Free Market Institute and a professor of political science in the College of Arts & Sciences.

Robin Grier is a professor of economics at the Free Market Institute.

Adam Martin is Political Economy Research Fellow at the Free Market Institute and an associate professor of agricultural and applied economics in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources.

Alexander William Salter is Comparative Economics Research Fellow at the Free Market Institute and an associate professor of economics in the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration.

Andrew Young is the director of graduate students and a research fellow at the Free Market Institute. He is also a professor of economics in the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration.
Faculty Affiliates

Gilbert Berdine is an associate professor of internal medicine at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and a faculty affiliate at the Free Market Institute.

Michael Giberson is an associate professor of practice in the area of energy, economics, and law in the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration and a faculty affiliate at the Free Market Institute.

Eduardo Segarra is emeritus professor of agricultural and applied economics in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources and a faculty affiliate at the Free Market Institute.
Research Associates

Rafael Acevedo is a research associate at the Free Market Institute.

Edwar Escalante is a research associate at the Free Market Institute. He is also an instructor of economics at the Norris-Vincent College of Business at Angelo State University.

Estefanía Luján Padilla is a research associate at the Free Market Institute.

Linan Peng is a post-doctoral research associate at the Free Market Institute.
Research Assistants

Daniel Sánchez-Piñol is a research assistant at the Free Market Institute and a fourth year Ph.D. student in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics.

Justin Callais is a research assistant at the Free Market Institute and a third year Ph.D. student in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics.

Israt Jahan is a research assistant at the Free Market Institute and a third year Ph.D. student in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics.

Gor Mkrtchian is a research assistant at the Free Market Institute and a second year Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science.

Henry Moncrieff is a research assistant at the Free Market Institute and a second year Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science.

Silvio Simonetti-Neto is a research assistant at the Free Market Institute and a second year Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science.

Shelby Collins is a research assistant at the Free Market Institute and a first year Ph.D. student in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics.

Don Lim is a research assistant at the Free Market Institute and a first year Ph.D. student in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics.

Towhid Mahmood is a research assistant at the Free Market Institute and a first year Ph.D. student in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics.

Vincent Miozzi is a research assistant at the Free Market Institute and a first year Ph.D. student in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics.

Wilson Whitener is a research assistant at the Free Market Institute and a first year Ph.D. student in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics.
Administrative Staff

Amanda Smith is the administrator for student and public programming at the Free Market Institute.

Meghan Engert is a student assistant at the Free Market Institute.
For a listing of past research staff and past Ph.D. Fellows, please visit the Free Market Institute Alumni page.
Free Market Institute
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Address
Texas Tech University - Box 45059 - Lubbock, TX - 79409-5059 -
Phone
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Email
free.market@ttu.edu