Speakers

Philippe Nemo is a professor of political and social philosophy and historian of French political ideas at ESCP Europe. His fields of research range from liberalism, in particular Friedrich Hayek, of which he is the main French specialist, to the history of political ideas, the idea of the West and the republican idea. He has also published studies on the problem of education and contemporary pedagogy.

Dr Krassen Stanchev is a Board Chairman, Founder and former Executive Director of The Institute for Market Economics, Bulgaria’s first free market think tank (1993), former member and a committee chairman of the Constitutional Assembly (1990-1991), one of the most quoted Bulgarian observers, best country analyst award for 1996 by Euromoney and a nominee for Bulgaria’s Mr. Ekonomika 2004 as well as laureate of Bulgaria Government Prize – 2002, Templeton – 2006 – as IME Director, and GV Fund for Contribution to the Spirit of Liberty – 2006.

Pierre Bentata is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Law of Aix Marseille University. Previously, he was director of Rinzen and professor at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Troyes - SCBS.  His books include: Des jeunes sans histoire (Youth without issues, Libréchange 2016), Les désillusions de la liberté (Desillusions of Freedom, Ed. Observatoire 2018), L'aube des idoles (The Dawn of Idols, Ed. Observatoire 2019), De l'esprit de servitude au XXI siècle ( The Spirit of Servitude in the XXIst century, Ed. Observatoire 2021) and Tous notés (All rated, Ed. Observatoire 2023).

Associate Professor Murat C. Mungan is a prolific law and economics scholar, and is widely recognized as one of the top young law and economics theorists in the country. His primary substantive field of research is the economics of law enforcement and criminal law. His recent work also analyzes issues pertaining to a wide array of legal subjects, including, antitrust; intellectual property; and contracts. Mungan's research has been published in top law reviews and the most prestigious peer-reviewed journals focusing on law and economics, including the Journal of Law and Economics, the Journal of Legal Studies, and the American Law and Economics Review.

Henri Lepage is a French economist, member of the group of "new economists", co-founder of the Université d'été. He is best known for his books Tomorrow capitalism, Tomorrow liberalism, Why property, La nouvelle économie industrielle (The new industrial economics), which introduced the Public Choice school and Austrian economics to France. He founded Institut Turgot in the 2000's. Henri was a MEP.

Daniela Piana is a professor of political science since 2014 at the University of Bologna, Italy. She was Jean Monnet Fellow (EUI), Fulbright Fellow (UC Berkeley), and is associate at the Institut des Hautes Etudes sur la Justice in Paris and at the Institute of social sciences of politics, ENS Paris Saclay. She coordinates "Just Europe", ICEDD Luiss, and collaborates with the School of Magistrates, the National Lawyers Association and the European Network for Judicial Training.

Nikolai G. Wenzel is Professor of Economics at the online startup Universidad de las Hespérides and on the Senior Research Faculty at the American Institute for Economic Research.

Carlo Lottieri is currently Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Siena and Professor of Philosophy of Social Sciences at Facoltà di Teologia in Lugano (Switzerland). Fellow of many institutions, he is the Director of Political Theory department of the Istituto Bruno Leoni. His writings develop a radical libertarianism combining a strong emphasis on the inviolability of other people and a realistic approach to the modern State. His interests cover Federalism, Libertarianism, Political Theology, Military Ethics, Elitism, Evolutionary Theory of Law, Commons and Private Property.