Roy Marden

Roy Marden is currently Manager of Industry Affairs at Philip Morris Companies in New York City and is also a director of The Heartland Institute, a conservative think-tank based in Chicago that has been funded by the company. [1]

The Marden profile on the Heartland Institute site stated that his responsibilities with Philip Morris "include managing company responses to key public policy issues; directing corporate involvement with industry, business, trade, and public policy organizations and determining philanthropic support thereto; lobbying; developing economic and public policy position papers for senior management; and representing the Philip Morris Chairman and CEO in external coalitions and business associations".

"Before joining Philip Morris, Mr. Marden was a senior consultant at Ernst & Whinney in New York, where he provided economic consulting services to litigation attorneys in antitrust, products liability, and labor arbitration cases and presented testimony as an expert economic witness. He earlier served as a senior research associate at Charles River Associates in Boston, where he provided economic research and consulting services to business and government clients, specializing in antitrust and regulatory economics and policy impact evaluation. Among his primary activities were consulting to the counsel for the defendant in U.S. v. IBM."

"Mr. Marden serves on numerous cultural and policy group Boards, including The Brooklyn Children's Museum, the Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation, Instituto Cultural Ludwig von Mises, Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy (where he serves as Vice Chairman), and Women for Tax Reform. He is also a senior fellow at the Council on Culture and Community."

"Mr. Marden received Bachelor's and Master's degrees in economics from Northwestern University."

Liaison to "Nonprofit" Advocacy Groups

An internal list compiled by Philip Morris of its "public policy grants" for 1995 lists some 47 organizations for which Marden was listed as a contact. Most of the listed organizations were also recipients of funding from the company. Listed organizations included:

• Atlas Economic Research Foundation
• Cato Institute
• Reason Foundation
• Media Institute
• Barry Goldwater Institute for Public Policy Research
• Capital Research Center
• Michigan State University/James Madison College
• State Policy Network
• Tax Foundation
• Institute on Taxation and Economics Policy
• Washington Legal Foundation
• Citizens' Research Foundation, University of Southern California
• Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty
• Alexis de Tocqueville Institute
• American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
• Americans for Tax Reform Foundation
• Business Leadership Council
• Business Roundtable
• Center for Peace and Freedom
• Center for the Study of Popular Culture
• Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.
• Claremont Institute
• Conference Board