CHARLES G. KOCH

Charles G. Koch is chairman of the board and CEO of Koch Industries, Inc., a position he has held since 1967. Since then, the company has been transformed into a dynamic and diverse group of companies engaged in refining and chemicals; process and pollution control equipment and technologies; fibers and polymers; minerals; fertilizers, commodity and financial trading and services; and forest and consumer products. Familiar Koch company brands include STAINMASTER^® carpet, LYCRA^® spandex, Quilted Northern^® tissue, and Dixie^® cups and tabletop products.

Much of Koch Industries’ success can be traced to Mr. Koch’s interest in and commitment to scientific and social progress, which led to the development and implementation of the Market-Based Management^® business philosophy. Mr. Koch is further developing the theories and expanding the practice of the MBM^® philosophy, as well as other applications of the science of human action, not only throughout Koch Industries, but with scholars, non-profit leaders, government officials and other business leaders.

Mr. Koch has continuously supported academic and public policy research (including a number of Nobel Prize winners) for more than 40 years, with a special focus on developing voluntary, market-based solutions to social problems. He has helped build or found a number of market-based organizations including the Institute for Humane Studies, the Cato Institute, the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, the Bill of Rights Institute and the Market-Based Management Institute.

A native of Wichita, Kansas, Mr. Koch received a bachelor’s degree in general engineering and two master’s degrees in nuclear and chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He and his wife of 36 years, Liz, have two children.