Speakers

Nathalie Janson is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Finance Department at NEOMA Business School. She obtained her PhD in Economics from the University of Paris I-La Sorbonne in collaboration with the ESSEC PhD programme. She teaches courses in Economics, Money and Banking and Fintech Regulation in the initial training programmes in English Track. Her research focuses on monetary policy issues, banking regulation and crypto-currencies.

François Facchini is Professor of Economics at the University of Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris. His two main areas of research are public finance and the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development. These themes are treated within the framework of neo-institutionalist doctrine and two of its currents: the Austrian school and public choice theory. His publications include L'école autrichienne de A à Z (Austrian Economics from A to Z) and more recently Les dépenses publiques en France (Public spending in France).

As Head of International Outreach, Adam oversees the IEA’s collaboration with our global partners to spread our publications in over 100 languages in every corner of the world. Adam also serves as the Director of EPICENTER, the leading free market network of think tanks in Europe. Adam has the responsibility to enable the cooperation of the network and organise the private and public events programme in Brussels.

Enrico Colombatto is Professor of economics at the University of Turin, Italy and director of Research et the Institut de Recherches Economiques et Fiscales (IREF) in Paris. he is the author of Law, Informal Rules and Economic Performance: The Case for Common Law (Edward Elgar) and editor of The Elgar Companion to the Economics of Property Rights.

Hicham El Moussaoui is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Sultan Moulay Slimane University of Beni-Mellal, Morocco. He specialises in incentives, cooperation, economic analysis of institutions, development and behavioural economics, and was responsible for the French-speaking project of the ATLAS Foundation www.libreafrique.org.

Douglas B. Rasmussen is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at St. John’s University in NYC and Senior Affiliated Scholar at the Menard Family Institute for Economic Inquiry at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. Among the books he has co-authored (with Douglas J. Den Uyl) are: Liberty and Nature: An Aristotelian Defense of Liberal Order (1991); Norms of Liberty: A Perfectionist Basis for Non-Perfectionist Politics (2006); and The Perfectionist Turn: From Metanorms to Metaethics (2016).

Christian Năsulea teaches Economics at the Department of International Relations and Universal History at the Faculty of History of the University of Bucharest. He is the Executive Director of the Institute for Economic Studies - Europe and a fellow of the Institute for Research in Economic and Fiscal Issues. His areas of research interest include public policy and stimuli for economic development, political and commercial negotiation in international relations, behavioural economics and decision processes.

President of IES-Europe and Editor-in-Chief of both the Journal des Économistes et des Études Humaines and Journal des Libertés, Pierre Garello is Professor of Economics at the Faculté d’Economie et Gestion of Aix Marseille University in France. He has published various articles on Austrian economics, law and economics (especially competition law and contract law). He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal des Économistes et des Études Humaines, a scholarly review dealing with economic, legal, philosophical and political issues, in the tradition of the French Classical Liberal School.