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Henrik F. Rasmussen

Henrik F. Rasmussen is the president of Argonne Ventures, a company focused on international business expansion and investment projects. He is also the chairman of the Center for Expeditionary Economics, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship in post-conflict and post-disaster zones around the world.

An entrepreneur and an immigrant from Denmark to the United States, Rasmussen has founded or co-founded several companies focused on finance, technology, and international trade. He has also been active in the public debate on both sides of the Atlantic as a long-time advocate of American global leadership and the ideals of the American founding.

Rasmussen served as a platoon commander in the Royal Danish Army before moving to the United States in 2000 and becoming a U.S. citizen in 2010. He holds an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. from Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia.

Recent Articles by Henrik F. Rasmussen

  • A free-market agenda for rebuilding from the coronavirus

    On June 18, 1940, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill steeled his people for the Battle of Britain with a stirring speech in the House of Commons that concluded: “Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour.’”

    The present coronavirus crisis calls for Churchillian statesmanship, yet few, if any, democratically elected leaders have proven equal to the task so far. This is decidedly not our finest hour.

    The leaders of the world’s democracies have virtually shut down democratic capitalism in an attempt to save lives. From Hungary to Michigan, right-wing and left-wing authoritarians are ruling by decree to keep their populations under tight control. Unemployment and government debt are spiraling to levels not seen since the Great Depression and World War II. Europe is disintegrating.

    The financial and political costs of this shutdown will be enormous, and it is reasonable to ask if more lives will be lost as a consequence of the shutdown than as a consequence of the coronavirus. How many lifesaving biotechnology companies could have been started with the capital now being...