title: John A. Allison IV
text: John A. Allison IV (born August 14, 1948) is an American businessman and the former CEO and president of the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C.. Allison held a number of leadership positions in BB&T Corp. from 1987 until 2010 when he retired. He now serves as a director at Moelis & Company.
  
  References
  
  Other websites
   Allison's bio at the Cato Institute
   Arnold Kling, review of The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure, Reason Papers vol. 34, no. 2 (October 2012), pp. 229–33
   
   
  
  1948 births
  Living people
  Businesspeople from Washington, D.C.
  Libertarians
  American political writers
  Writers from Washington, D.C.
  Businesspeople from Charlotte, North Carolina
  Writers from Charlotte, North Carolina