Speakers

Simone Sepe
Professor of Law and Finance
Simone Sepe is Professor of Law and Finance at the University of Arizona
Bob Lyddon
Consultant
Bob Lyddon is a Consultant at Lyddon Consulting Services
Yorick de Mombynes
National Audit Magsitrate
Yorick de Mombynes is a magistrate at the French National Audit Office and a Bitcoin expert
Michael of Liechtenstein
Founder and chairman of Geopolitical Intelligence Services
Prince Michael of Lichtenstein is founder and chairman of Geopolitical Intelligence Services
Nicolas Lecaussin
Director of think tank
Nicolas Lecaussin is the director of IREF
Petar Ganev
Senior Economist
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
Professor in History of Political Thought
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).
Cathleen Johnson
Professor of Economics
David Schmidtz
Professor of Philosophy
David Schmidtz is Kendrick Professor of Philosophy in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.  He also is Eller Chair of Service-Dominant Logic in the Eller College of Management. He is editor-in-chief of Social Philosophy & Policy He was founding Head of the Department of Political Economy & Moral Science.
Victoria Curzon-Price
Professor of Economics
Victoria Curzon Price is a Professor Emerita of Economics of the University of Geneva. She was the Director of the European Institute of the University of Geneva, a member of the Governing Council of the University of Geneva (2003-2007). In addition she was a Deputy for the Parliament of the Canton of Geneva (2008-2009). She was President, then Vice-President & Board Member of the Mont Pelerin Society.