Jo Kwong joined The Philanthropy Roundtable in February 2010 as director of philanthropic services.
From 1990 to 2010, Jo developed a network of free market public policy think tanks around the world at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation. As Atlas's vice president of institute relations, she advised and counseled think tank leaders in nonprofit management and development. Prior to joining Atlas, Jo worked at the Institute for Humane Studies, the Capital Research Center, and the Property and Environment Research Center.
Jo lectures internationally on topics including free-market environmentalism, markets and morality, globalization and women, and think tank management and development. Her books include Environmental Education (Institute for Economic Affairs, 1997), Myths about Environmental Policy (Citizens for the Environment, 1991), and Protecting the Environment: Old Rhetoric, New Imperatives (Capital Research Center, 1990). Her writing has been published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Urban Lands, and the American Land Forum, as well as in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. Jo also edited the Atlas Network's The Think Tank Primer: Strategies for Advancing Freedom around the World.
Jo received her Ph.D. in natural resource economics from the University of Michigan and her Sc.B. in biology from Brown University.
