Robert L. Bradley Jr., is founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy Research (IER) of Washington, DC and Houston, Texas. He has authored eight books, the most recent of which focus on business strategies and practices in the modern US mixed economy with particular reference to energy.

Bradley is an adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC; a visiting fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs in London; and a senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation in Austin, Texas.

Bradley holds at BA and MA in economics and a PhD. in political economy and lives in Houston, Texas.

He spoke to the CEC on Wednesday November 14, 2018. His topic was entitled “The Contra-Capitalist Company: Investors Beware”