Bob Chitester
Free to Choose
President
Bob Chitester is currently the founder and executive chairman of Free To Choose® Network. Since completing his BA and MA degrees at the University of Michigan, he has created closed circuit educational television systems, launched a public television station and executive produced many television programs, including Milton Friedman’s 1980 world-changing television series, Free To Choose. The series and book based on the series are still in wide circulation and have been used as guides in the development of emerging countries. Chitester also created Stossel in the Classroom and The Idea Channel®, a library of over 200 video recordings of intellectual discussions between the world's leading scholars, including 16 Nobel Prize laureates. He is currently leading the effort to develop Milton and Rose Friedman’s summer home, Capitaf, in Vermont as a venue for Residential Colloquiums on Friedman’s public policy ideas for small groups of college students.