Allen Mendenhall
Research Fellow
Allen Mendenhall is a Research Fellow for the Institute for Economic Policy Studies, and Senior Advisor of the Free Enterprise Initiative at The Heritage Foundation. He develops strategy and leads outreach and coalitions efforts on ESG and capital markets. Previously, he was Associate Dean and Grady Rosier Professor in the Sorrell College of Business at Troy University, where he directed the Manuel H. Johnson Center for Political Economy.
He serves or has served on numerous boards of organizations as wide-ranging as the Alabama Public Television Foundation Authority (2019-present), the Society for Law and Culture (2017-present), the Young Professionals Board of the Alabama Humanities Foundation, and Trinity Christian School. He served on the advisory council of the Ludwig von Mises Institute’s Master of Arts degree and Certificate Program in Austrian Economics.
He has authored hundreds of publications, including fiction and poetry, and studied under the creative writers Gilbert Allen, Michael Blumenthal, William Aarnes, and Chantel Acevedo.