Bob Chitester is the founder and executive chairman of Free to Choose Network. After completing his BA and MA degrees at the University of Michigan, he created closed-circuit educational television systems and launched a public television and radio station, which he headed for sixteen years. He created numerous public television programs, including Milton Friedman’s world-changing 1980 series, Free to Choose.

Chitester also created Stossel in the Classroom, which morphed into Izzit.org, a source of educational videos serving more than 300,000 middle school and high school teachers. He started the Idea Channel, a library of more than two hundred recordings of intellectual discussions between the world's leading scholars, which includes sixteen Nobel Prize laureates.

Currently he is leading the effort to develop several community engagement activities associated with the upcoming series on the US Constitution, A More or Less Perfect Union, hosted by Judge Douglas Ginsburg. And he’s guiding the development of Capitaf, Milton and Rose Friedman’s summer home in Fairlee, Vermont, as a venue for residential student colloquiums to discuss Friedman’s public-policy ideas.

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