Our Liberty Team

Glenn Cripe – Founder and Executive Director

Since 2005, Glenn has brought more than 85 of LLI’s Liberty Camps and Seminars to over 3400 students in 35 countries, expanding his network of freedom fighters around the world. When not organizing and hosting Liberty Camps, Glenn recruits and develops new local partners, teachers, and donors for the Institute. He also enjoys playing classical piano, attending jazz, opera, and folk events, and reading sci-fi, economics, and history on the beaches of Costa del Sol and Italy.

Before co-founding the Institute, Glenn pursued a career in IT development, consulting, and training. He takes special pride in having helped organize the translation and publication of the works of Ayn Rand into Russian in 1993 — the first time her works could be read in her native language.

Originally from Chicago, now a resident of Italy, Glenn has lived in a dozen cities in the US and abroad. He studied languages, finance, and economics at Indiana University. Besides his native English, he speaks Italian, French, and a bit of German.

Bishnu Hari Timilsina – Chief Operating Officer

Mr. Timilsina is a committed and laser-focused individual who excels at setting priorities and carrying out several activities at once. With more than seven years of expertise in managing projects and initiatives related to entrepreneurship and tourism, Bishnu brings his innovative ideas and skills in marketing, communications and student outreach from his base in Nepal. His present work involves planning and implementing all of our projects especially in South Asia.

In May 2024, Bishnu completed his Master’s degree in Project Management in London, United Kingdom.

Teachers

Jan Kubań

Mr. Kubań is the president of the Polish-American Foundation for Education and Economic Development. Mountaineering instructor, traveler, activist for freedom and economic development in the free market spirit, as well as an ardent supporter and advocate of direct democracy in the Swiss style. Author of the book “The Physics of Life” . A passionate teacher who willingly devotes time, especially to young people who are embarking on the bumpy path of running their own business and investing in personal development.

Marina Brierley

Marina holds degrees from UNSW and Newcastle (UK). She worked as a computer programmer in Sydney and London, then taught History for many years in an English Grammar school. She has an MA in International Development and Education and enjoys working with young people around the world promoting classical liberal ideas. She is particularly enthusiastic and supportive of African development. She is an Advisory Board member of two think tanks promoting free market education to young Africans – ROCKME (Rewards of Capitalism – Knowledge, Morality and Empowerment) in Nigeria and African Liberty Foundation in Uganda. In 2023 Marina introduced a Teacher Training Programme from UK’s leading private university (Buckingham) to Ugandan teachers in low-cost private schools.
Marina is the author of “Russian Roots”, a history describing the escape of her family from Stalin’s Soviet Union to China – and beyond. Of Russian heritage and a Russian speaker, she is Australian by birth and British by choice. Marina is deeply committed to individual freedom and the philosophy of liberty – the product of her background, studies and extensive travels.

Thomas Jacob

Thomas studied economics at Zürich University, was a commercial airline pilot with Swissair, and now works in the insurance sector. In 1981 he became a Rand-Minarchist and in 1990 a Hoppe Anarchist. He has four children and lives with his wife and the two younger ones in Zürich.

Óscar Rollón Aymerich

Óscar has worked in the think tank world, and with press and political campaign management, starting in 2020 when he became the head of the Spain section at La Derecha Diario (Argentina). He next worked for Perspectiva Libre as the head of the statistics department, and now does similar work for Hercules Diario.

He currently studies politics and philosophy at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He joined SFL in 2021, where he led the team and served as president for nine months. During this time, he created the John Galt Retreat, to introduce students to Objectivism, and contributed to the 2nd International Political Theory Congress “Cives Romani Sumus”.

Seeking to integrate and apply his interest in Republicanism and Objectivism to electoral systems, Óscar served as campaign manager of “Libertad Sin Ira” at  Complutense University during their 2022 elections. He also helped the Esther del Campo team in these elections.

Jacek Spendel

Jacek Spendel, a native of Poland, is an experienced manager in the libertarian think-tank world. He started his activism at age 18 with the KoLiber Youth Association. Between 2005-2012, Spendel was the project manager at the Globalization Institute. In 2012, he founded Freedom and Entrepreneurship Foundation, where he is CEO, and runs a number of projects with Project Arizona as the most successful one. His adventure with Liberty International started back in 2006 when as a 21-year-old student he attended the Prague LIWC with a scholarship. Two years later, Spendel organized his first LLI Liberty Camp (in Poland) and has since managed over a dozen of them in several different countries. In 2019, Jacek Spendel joined the Board of Liberty International.
Simultaneously with his libertarian activism, he ran a pizza business in Katowice between 2014-2017. He studied social sciences at the University of Silesia, Jagiellonian University, and Georgetown University. Spendel is an alumnus of Atlas Network’s Think-Tank MBA (2013) and The Fund of American Studies programs in Prague (2008) and Washington, DC (2009). Currently, he and his wife Magda divide their time between Phoenix, AZ, and Wrocław in southwestern Poland.

Supporters

Andy Eyschen (co-Founder)

Mr. Eyschen an Australian citizen, originally from Luxembourg, Andy currently works as a management consultant from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Andy’s special contribution to LLI and the Liberty Camps is his broad experience with consulting, organizational development, and training programs.

David Hutzelman

David is a retired Director of Information Systems for a Fortune 100 company and teacher of economics. He has volunteered with Junior Achievers, worked for CATO, and currently sits on the boards of various citizen political action committees in Texas. David has a keen interest in teaching the next generation of leaders about Austrian economics, capitalism and the morality of classical liberalism.

Jaroslav Romanchuk (co-Founder)

Jaroslav comes to us from Minsk, Belarus, where he promotes freedom as a teacher, writer, and political activist. Trained in economics and foreign languages, he has taught many classes in those areas for universities and private groups. He has published hundreds of articles on economic problems (monetary policy, pension reform, effectiveness of state poverty programs, comparative analysis of social economic models, crisis of welfare state in the West etc.) in various Belarusian and international mass media.

Having written four books, and co-authored seven more, Jaroslav is an expert on transitioning from communism to freedom in former Soviet states. Two of these books earned him the Fisher and Templeton Awards from the Atlas Economic Research Foundation (Washington, DC). To publicize further classical liberal ideas and reforms, he was active in the opposition United Civil Party for eleven years as Deputy Chairman, and ran for the office of President of Belarus in 2010.

As co-founder and president of the Scientific Research Mises Center, a free-market think tank in Minsk, Jaroslav continues to write and promote reforms and laws for pensions, taxes, corruption, privatization, and much more. He is also a co-founder of Language of Liberty Institute, and for over ten years has brought dozens of young Belarusians, Lithuanians, and Ukrainians to Liberty Camps and seminars, where they can openly discuss the ideas of freedom, often for the first time.