WPP

Background WPP is the world’s largest advertising holding company by revenue. Through its numerous subsidiaries, including VML and Ogilvy, WPP has worked for fossil fuel clients including Saudi Aramco2“Campaign Middle East […]

AnimalhealthEurope

Background AnimalhealthEurope (AHE) is a trade association representing companies that manufacture animal medicines, vaccines and other animal health products in Europe. Its membership covers 90 percent of the European market for animal health products – including animal antibiotics – and includes major animal health companies like Elanco, Zoetis, Virbac and MSD Animal Health.1“What we do,” […]

WP Creative Group

Background Washington Post Creative Group is an advertising agency owned by the Washington Post. Founded in 2014 as WP Brand Studio and sometimes labeled as WP Brand Connect, WP Creative Group makes native advertisements for the Washington Post.1John Ebbert. “Defining Native Advertising Success At The Washington Post,” Ad Exchanger, July 30, 2014. Archived August 14, […]

Caesar Rodney Institute

Caesar Rodney Institute Background The Caesar Rodney Institute (CRI) is a 501(c)(3) public policy think tank based in Delaware. “We believe that markets work and that government’s role should be limited to activities that cannot be better served through private means,” CRI notes in […]

Philip Stott

Philip Stott Credentials *Philip Stott’s archived faculty profile at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies does not specify at which London school he received his bachelors degree, or what his major was. In Stott’s acknowledgements for his 1981 book, Historical Plant […]

Deepak Lal (1940–2020)

Deepak Lal Credentials Background Deepak Lal was an economist, a professor of international development, and a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. Lal passed away on April 30, 2020 at age 80. Deepak Lal was associated with the Institute of […]

Alan Moran

Alan Moran Credentials Background Alan Moran is an economist and former employee of the Australian think tank Institute of Public Affairs (IPA), which has campaigned heavily against carbon price legislation. Moran’s personal website is called “Regulation Economics.” Australian opinion writer Tristan Edis described Moran as […]

Ernest Moniz

Ernest Moniz Credentials Background Ernest (“Ernie”) J. Moniz is a nuclear physicist who served as the second United States Secretary of Energy under the Obama administration, from 2013 to January 2017. After leaving government in 2017, Moniz founded the non-profit Energy […]

Brownstone Institute

Brownstone Institute Background The Brownstone Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (TIN 87-1368060) that, according to its website, was “created by policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020.” The Brownstone Institute was founded May 2021 by Jeffrey Tucker, a columnist for the far-right […]

Jason Funes

Jason Funes Credentials Background Jason Funes was an assistant in the Office of External Affairs of the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) during the Trump administration. His appointment was announced on May 26, 1917 among 18 other new hires at the department, including Daniel Jorjani and Timothy Williams.1“Interior Announces 19 New Hires,” U.S. Department […]