Home THE MENTOR GROUP FOUNDING purposes meet the advisory board Affairs THE MENTOR GROUP FOUNDING PURPOSEs Established 1983 in Boston Mentor Group is a nonprofit 501c3 research institute that founded a distinctive constitutional legaleconomic and politicaleconomic exchange following the classical definition of political economy that applies the principles of justice to economic and business affairs. Unique among public service organizations we entered the 21st Century bringing together crossAtlantic viewpoints and collaborative conversations with a peer group of Supreme Court Justices legislators EU Commissioners scholars and industry leaders in the European Union and the United States. Mentor Group began this exchange in its inaugural Symposium collaborating with the Woodrow Wilson Center at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. The Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court Warren Burger presided over this Symposium in 1985 where the principal address was given by The Honourable Lord Cameron KT Lord of Session and President of The Royal Society of Edinburgh who related Scottish political economy from the Enlightenment to the founding of the United States of America.