Christopher Coyne is Associate Director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He also holds the title of F.A. Harper Professor of Economics at the Mercatus Center and he is a member of the department of economics at George Mason University where he serves as the Director of Graduate Studies. He is also the North American Editor of The Review of Austrian Economics and the Book Review Editor of Public Choice. Dr. Coyne is a member of the Board of Scholars for the Virginia Institute for Public Policy and was named the Hayek Fellow at the London School of Economics in 2008. He is the author of After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy (2007, Stanford University Press), Media, Development and Institutional Change (co-authored with Peter Leeson, 2009, Edward Elgar Publishing), Doing Bad by Doing Good: Why Humanitarian Action Fails (2013, Stanford University Press), and the co-editor (with Rachel Mathers) of The Handbook on the Political Economy of War (2011, Edward Elgar Publishing).  In addition, he has authored numerous academic articles, book chapters, and policy studies. He received his Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University.