Organizers

Laurence Baer
CEO, Peace Stars

Laurence has had over 45 years of management experience in both the for profit and not for profit arenas.

From 1983 – 1992, he helped launch and served as the Executive Assistant to the three Chairman of the Global Economic Action Institute: Hon. Robert B. Anderson, former Secretary of the Treasury in the Eisenhower Administration; Sen. Eugene McCarthy, former Presidential Candidate and Senator from Minnesota; and Sir Robert Muldoon, former Prime Minister of New Zealand.

With Hon. Robert B. Anderson in the early days of the Global Economic Action Institute

With Nobel Prize winning economist Friedrich Hayek in the Austrian mountains.

One of the Institute’s most important achievements was helping Tom Clausen, then President of the World Bank, to secure the necessary support to launch MIGA, which supports investment into developing countries around the world.

It also conducted important conferences around the world, including one in Budapest on transitioning from a centrally planned economy to a free market economy. They were in the middle of that event when the wall came down in Berlin.

Laurence has also been involved in numerous other projects to make the world a better place.

Laurence is an award-winning songwriter, and has produced three CD projects: Across a Bering Strait Bridge (2007); Across Time (2015); Across Love (2018). His song, White Pass Railroad was recorded by the Del McCoury Band and included on their 2009 Grammy Nominated “Family Circle” CD.