Christopher Butler is Executive Director of Americans for Tax Reform and the Tholos Foundation, two affiliated organizations based in Washington, D.C. Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) was founded in 1985 by Grover Norquist at the request of President Reagan. ATR’s most famous project is still the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, which the group launched in 1986 to hold elected officials to their word. ATR’s work goes well beyond the Pledge however, and today the organization is a broad, influential free-market family of groups operating on a dozen economic issues at the state, federal, and international levels to promote free and open markets. Together with ATR president Grover Norquist, in 2019 Christopher Butler re-founded ATR’s non-profit research and education affiliate to become the Tholos Foundation. Named for the senate dining hall on the ancient Athenian agora, Tholos has organized standing coalitions among center-right leaders throughout the U.S. and across the world. Strengthened by its work building coalitions and cooperation, Tholos conducts research and education on effective public policy from a free-market perspective, with a particular emphasis on taxes, spending, regulation, innovation, and property rights. Its most well-known publications include the International Property Rights Index and the Trade Barrier Index. Mr. Butler has frequently facilitated the exchange of information and strategy between U.S., European, and Asian conservatives and libertarians. He has trained activists in non-profit governance, communications, fundraising, and political organizing in Taiwan, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, France, Belgium, Hungary, Malaysia and elsewhere around the globe. Through his roles with Tholos and affiliated groups, he has helped to launch new organizations in New Zealand, Kuala Lumpur, Ireland, Ukraine, India, and Argentina, just to name a few. Mr. Butler has appeared in national media outlets such as FOX News, NPR, Newsday, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. His background prior to his leadership at Tholos and ATR was in communications and public relations. His work has included roles with the Republican Party, campaigns, and polling. Mr. Butler sits on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the World Taxpayers Associations, which connects taxpayer protection groups from over 60 countries in order to share best practices and to create opportunities for collaboration. He lives in Fairfax, Virginia with his wife and six children.