Board of Directors Volunteer to Serve IFREE

Here are the people who volunteer to keep IFREE Mission-Driven and open for new opportunities.

Tucker Andersen
IFREE Board of Directors
Tucker Andersen briefly pursued various occupational opportunities, then spent twenty-seven years with the private investment partnership Cumberland Associates, including fifteen years as a co-managing partner of the firm. Subsequent to his retirement from that position, he founded Above All Advisors, a consulting and investment firm. In addition, he is on several advisory and private company boards. These include the Questech Corporation, Value Insight Partners, a fund of funds specializing in hedge funds with a fundamental value orientation and Artificial Cell Technologies, an early stage nanotech-biotech venture firm pursuing research in the development of artificial vaccines. He served on the board of trustees at the Phillips Exeter Academy for ten years including positions as vice-president and chairs of both the executive and investment committees. Following his retirement from the Exeter board, he has remained a member of the investment committee. His service since 1989 makes him the longest serving member of that committee. He currently serves as a trustee and member of the investment committee of Wesleyan University. Among other board positions, he also serves on the board and the executive committee of the Cato Institute and as a trustee of the Warren, CT Congregational church. He received his B.A. in Quantitative Studies from Wesleyan University in 1963. Tucker is the recipient of both the Wesleyan Distinguished Alumnus Award and the Exeter Founder's Day Award. He is both a Chartered Financial Analyst and an Associate Member of the Society of Actuaries.

David Dreman
IFREE Board of Directors
David Dreman is Chairman and Managing Partner of Dreman Value Management, an institutional money management firm. Over the past thirty years, David has written four books on behavioral finance, focusing on cognitive psychology and its effects on investor behavior. He has also written a number of academic papers on behavioral finance and is currently writing a new book which will attempt to integrate portions of neuroeconomics and affect into investment decision making. He has spoken widely on these subjects before both academic and investment audiences. David enjoys "old man skiing", bicycle riding, and sailing.

Robert Gasaway
IFREE Board of Directors; Chairman of the Board
Robert R. Gasaway is a partner of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, focusing on constitutional and administrative law and litigation, with a specialty in representing clients in the preparation of multi-forum trial and appellate strategies in high-risk cases. Rob has served as lead counsel for parties in cases before the United States Supreme Court and many U.S. Courts of Appeal, State Supreme Courts, and intermediate state appellate courts. In addition to representing clients in court proceedings, Rob is a recognized expert on legal reform and constitutional law issues, frequent speaker at legal conferences and contributor to legal publications. A law graduate of the University of Chicago, Rob has worked as a business consultant and earned two masters degrees from Yale University.

Robert Kurzban
IFREE Board of Directors
Robert Kurzban is an Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in the Psychology Department. He founded the Penn Laboratory for Experimental Evolutionary Psychology, in 2003. He has published dozens of journal articles on a wide array of topics, including morality, cooperation, friendship, mate choice, supernatural beliefs, modularity, self-control, and other topics. He received his PhD at the University of California Santa Barbara at the Center for Evolutionary Psychology in 1998, and received postdoctoral training at Caltech in the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, UCLA Anthropology, and the University of Arizona痴 Economic Science Laboratory with Vernon Smith. In 2008, he won the inaugural Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution from the Human Behavior and Evolution Society. His first book, Why Everyone (Else) Is A Hypocrite, is now available. He loves dogs, running, and cooking. His favorite color is blue.

Jim Murphy
IFREE Board of Directors
Jim Murphy is Professor of Economics at the University of Alaska Anchorage. His research focuses on the use of experimental methods to address environmental policy and natural resource management issues. Recent research areas include management of Alaskan fisheries, design and enforcement of emissions trading programs, development of natural gas markets in Alaska, subsistence harvests by the indigenous people of Alaska and Russia. His favorite pastime is spending time with his family. In the summers he enjoys hiking and biking in mountains around Anchorage. In the winter you can find him cross-country skiing or riding his fat-tire snow bike.

Vernon Smith
IFREE Board of Directors, President/Founder
Vernon L Smith serves as Professor of Law and Economics and the George L. Argyros Endowed Chair in Finance and Economics, and is also a Professor Emeritus at George Mason University. When Vernon Smith started IFREE in 1997, his vision at the time was to create an institution that would nourish research and education based on his and his colleagues at the University of Arizona's experience of the many ways in which their work had changed the way they thought about economics. He was already astonished, looking back over his previous 40 years, by the unpredictable changes and directions taken by what had become known as "experimental economics". Vernon believes that IFREE has become an essential part of a diverse exploration focused on people and their development of the ideas, the technology, the methodology that define what he and other experimentalists have become. For Vernon, it is immensely gratifying to be part of this learning process.

Carol Breckner
IFREE Treasurer
Carol Breckner has been a financial advisor to IFREE since its inception in 1997 and Treasurer since 2006. From 2000 to 2004 she served as volunteer CEO of a consulting company formed by Vernon Smith and his colleagues when they were at the University of Arizona. During her career she was the CFO of Alamito Company, an electric utility in the independent power business, and Assistant Treasurer of Tucson Electric Power Company. She has also consulted on the financing of major power plants. She has volunteered for organizations providing training of service dogs for people with disabilities, including in a maximum security prison where inmates cared for and trained dogs for this purpose.

Candace Smith
IFREE Vice President
Candace Smith appreciates the tradition, values, vision and mission that ground IFREE and her role at IFREE as Vice President serving in communication and coordination. She was a Colorado high school teacher for twenty-six years, teaching language arts, history, and broad area social studies, and coaching speech and debate during the early years. After receiving a Master's in Economics Education, her interest and focus tightened in teaching economics. She received many teaching awards at the local, state, and national levels, including the Colorado Enterprising Teacher of the Year Award, the Colorado Teaching Award, a Foundation for Teaching Economics National Prize for Excellence in Economics Education, and the National Milken Award in 1993 for innovative approaches to education and total quality management in the classroom. After retiring from teaching, she served as an educational consultant in economics education, quality improvement processes for school and classroom management and instruction, and in Socratic dialogue as an exemplary method for creating the "classical liberal classroom."

Julie Heroux
Associate in Communications, Outreach, and Research
Montreal, QC

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