Speakers

Gia Jandieri is vice-president and founder of the New Economic School – Georgia (NESG). In the past he has served as member of the board of the Georgian National Institute of Statistics, has worked for the Open Society Foundation, the Office of Anticorruption Working Group. He has served as Head of the Financial Office of the Parliament of Georgia, Member and Financial Officer at Central Election Commission of Georgia, Adviser at the National Audit Office of Georgia, and as Economist at the Ministry of Wholesale of Georgia.

Paata Sheshelidze is co-founder and president of the New Economic School - Georgia, a Tbilisi based free market think-tank and educational center. He is editor in chief of Library of Liberty publications and co-founder and director of the Institute of Economic Freedom and Library of Liberty. He teaches various economic disciplines at University of Georgia and Black Sea International University in Tbilisi.

Jean-Philippe Feldman is a former associate professor of law, lecturer at Sciences Po and lawyer at the Paris Court. His latest book is "Exception française. Histoire d'une société bloquée de l'Ancien Régime à Emmanuel Macron" (The French exception - The History of an Inflexible Society from Ancient Regime to Emmanuel Macron) published by Editions Odile Jacob.

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).