Speakers

Professor of Economics at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken

Jean-Claude Gruffat is Chairman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute

Saura Masconale Professor of Law and Economicsat the University of Arizona

Simone Sepe is Professor of Law and Finance at the University of Arizona

Bob Lyddon is a Consultant at Lyddon Consulting Services

Yorick de Mombynes is a magistrate at the French National Audit Office and a Bitcoin expert

Prince Michael of Lichtenstein is founder and chairman of Geopolitical Intelligence Services

Nicolas Lecaussin is the director of IREF

After graduating from the University of National and World Economy, Bulgaria, he joined the Institute for Market Economics (IME) as a senior economist. Petar is an IES-Europe Alumnus as he took part to an IES-Europe Summer Seminar in Varna, Bulgaria in 2005. In 2011, thanks to his help, IES-Europe was able to go back to Bulgaria after 5 years of absence. Petar was the link between IES-Europe and IME as a local organizer.

Alberto Mingardi is Assistant Professor in History of Political Thought at IULM University of Milan. He is also the Director General of Istituto Bruno Leoni, Italy’s free-market think tank which he helped to establish in 2004. He is also an Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute and an Affiliate at the Economic Science Institute at Chapman University. His main scientific interest is the history of political thought. He has written a monograph on Thomas Hodgskin (Thomas Hodgskin, allievo anarchico di Adam Smith, Venezia: Marsilio, 2016) and one on Herbert Spencer (New York & London: Continuum, 2011).