He headed the Press, Research and Parliamentary Liaison Office at the Federation of Small Businesses from 1977 to 1982, and was a Lambeth London Borough Councillor from 1978 to 1982. From 1982 to 1993, he lived in the United States, where he was president of the Institute for Humane Studies (1988–1991), president of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation (1987–1991), president of the board of the Congressional Schools of Virginia (1988–1992) and president of the Charles G. Koch and Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundations (1991–1992). Blundell became director general of the Institute of Economic Affairs on 1 January 1993. Blundell served as co-founder and chairman of the Institute for Children in Boston, Massachusetts (1993–1997); founder and director of the Institute for Justice in Washington D.C. (1991–1993); international trustee of The Fraser Institute in Vancouver, British Columbia (1988–1993); and founder trustee of the Buckeye Institute in Ohio. Blundell was a director of Fairbridge and of the International Policy Network, and chairman of the Institute Development and Relations Committee on the board of Atlas Economic Research Foundation. He was also a board member of the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia; of the Institute of Economic Studies in Paris, France; and, until 2012, of the Mont Pelerin Society. ==Death==

John Blundell (economist)