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Programme Participants
Michael De Alessi
 He graduated in economics from Stanford University and also holds an M.A. in marine policy from the Rosentiel School of marine and atmospheric science at the University of Miami. He is director of Natural Resource Policy, Reason Public Policy Institue, and does research work at the University of California at Berkeley.
Terry Anderson
 He received his doctorate in economics from the University of Washington in 1972. A former Professor of Economics at Montana State University, he is at present the Executive Director of the Political Economy Research Center in Bozeman, Montana. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Oxford University, Cornell University and the University of Basel.
Ragnar Arnason
 Born in 1949, he received his doctorate at the University of British Columbia in 1984. He is Professor of the Economics of Fisheries at the University of Iceland and a consultant to governments of several countries and to the World Bank on fisheries management.
Roger Bate
 He received his doctorate in economics from Cambridge University, has been Director of the International Policy Network and is at present Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
Niclas Berggren
 Born in 1968, he received his doctorate in economics from the Stockholm School of Economics in 1997. He is the Vice President of the research institute Ratio in Stockholm.
Boudewijn Bouckaert
 Born in 1947, he received his doctorate in law from the University of Ghent in 1981. He is Professor of Law at the University of Ghent, where he served as the Dean of the Law Faculty, and has been a Visiting Professor at George Mason University, University of Marse
e at Aix, and Harvard University.
Victoria Curzon-Price
 She received her doctorate in politics, but has taught economics at the Graduate Institute of European Studies at the University of Geneva since 1972, becoming Professor in 1984 and Director of the European Institute in 1994. She has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Amsterdam. Since 2004, she has been President of the Mont Pelerin Society.
Harold Demsetz
 Born in 1930, he received his doctorate at Northwestern University in 1959. He taught at the University of Michigan, the UCLA and the University of Chicago, before returning to UCLA in 1971. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Mont Pelerin Society.
Thrainn Eggertsson
 Born in 1941, he received his doctorate from Ohio State University in 1972. He is Professor of Economics at the University of Iceland and Global Distinguished Professor of Politics at New York University. He has been a Visiting Professor at several universities in the U.S. and Germany.
David D. Friedman
 He graduated from the University of Chicago in Physics in 1971, but has devoted his career mainly to economics and law. One of his many extra-curricular interests is medieval Iceland. He is currently Professor of Law at Santa Clara University, but has held appointments in many other academic institutes, including the University of Chicago Law School, Cornell Law School, UCLA and Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
Stefan Fölster
 Born in 1959, he received his doctorate in economics from Oxford University in 1986. He is at present Chief Economist at the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise.
Douglas H. Ginsburg
 He received his J.D. from University of Chicago Law School in 1973. He was Professor of Law at Harvard University, and Assistant Attorney General in the US Department of Justice, before he was appointed a Judge in the U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, becoming Chief Judge in 2001. He is also part-time Professor of Law at George Mason University and at the University of Chicago Law School.
Hannes H Gissurarson
 Born in 1953, he received his doctorate in politics at the University of Oxford in 1985. He is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Iceland and a member of the Governing Board of the Central Bank of Iceland. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, UCLA, Tokyo University of the Fisheries and ICER (Turin) and a Visiting Professor at LUISS (Rome).
David Gress
 He is Associate Professor at the Centre for Cultural Research at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and a former Resident Scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
Rognvaldur Hannesson
 Born in Iceland in 1943, he received his doctorate from the University of Lund in Sweden 1974. He has been Professor of Fisheries Economics at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration in Bergen, Norway, since 1983. He has been Visiting Professor at the University of Iceland, University of Delaware and Humboldt University (Berlin).
Arnold Harberger
 Born in 1924, he received his doctorate in economics at the University of Chicago in 1950. He has been on the Faculty of Economics at the University of Chicago since 1953, as an Emeritus Professor since 1991, and has been Professor of Economics at the UCLA since 1984. He is a consultant both at the IMF and the World Bank, and to many governments.
Thomas Hazlett
 He received his doctorate in economics from the UCLA. He has been Professor of Economics at the University of California, Davis, a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, Chief Economist of the Federal Communications Commission and is at present a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and a columnist for the Financial Times.
Andrei Illarionov
 Born in 1961, he received his Ph. D. in economics from St. Petersburg (then Leningrad) State University in 1987 and came to Moscow in the early 1990s as an economist on the staff of the then-President Yeltsin, working with Yegor Gaidar. He is at present the Chief Economic Adviser to Russian President Putin and has been described, by Business Week, as one of the “agenda setters” of today’s Europe.
Bent Jensen
 Born in 1938, he received his doctorate in history from the University of Copenhagen in 1979. An expert on the history of the Soviet Union, he is Professor of History at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense. He has also been Political Editor of a leading Danish newspaper.
Vaclav Klaus
 Born in 1941, he is an economist by training. He became the leader of “Civic Forum” in 1989, served as Finance Minister of Czechoslovakia 1989-92, and as Prime Minister of the Czech Republic 1992-7, overseeing the transition of the economy away from central planning. He was elected President of the Czech Republic in 2002.
Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard
 Born in 1966, he received his Ph. D. in Politics from the University of Copenhagen in 1997. He is at present Associate Professor of Politics at the Southern Danish University in Odense. He has been a Visiting Lecturer or Scholar at the University of Riga and New York University and is, since 2004, a Member of the Board of Directors of the Mont Pelerin Society.
Mart Laar
 He was born in 1960. He was educated as a historian and has written several books on Estonian history. As Prime Minister of Estonia 1992-5 and again in 1999-2002, he presided over the swift and successful transition of the Estonian economy from socialism to capitalism. He is widely seen as the man who made Estonia’s Westernization irreversible. At present, he is member of the Estonian parliament for the Pro Patria Union.
Gary Libecap
 Born in 1946, he received his doctorate in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1976. At present, he is the Anheuser Busch Professor and Professor of Law and Economics at the University of Arizona. He is the Director of the Karl Eller College of Business and Public Administration. He has served as President of the Economic History Association, the Western Economics Association International and the Society for the New Institutional Economics.
Daniel J. Mitchell
 He is the McKenna Senior Fellow in Political Economy, The Heritage Foundation. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University and master's and bachelor's degrees in economics from the University of Georgia. Prior to joining The Heritage Foundation in 1990, Mitchell was an economist for Senator Bob Packwood and the Senate Finance Committee. He also served on the 1988 Bush/Quayle transition team and was Director of Tax and Budget Policy for Citizens for a Sound Economy.
Julian Morris
 An economist and lawyer by training, he is Director of International Policy Network (London), a Research Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs in London and a Visiting Professor at the University of Buckingham.
Johan Norberg
 Born in 1973, he graduated with an MA in the History of Ideas from Stockholm University and is at present head of political ideas at Timbro, the Swedish think tank. During his student years, he was editor of Nyliberalen (The Neo-Liberal), a libertarian journal in Sweden.
David Oddsson
 Born in 1948, he is a lawyer by training. He became Mayor of Reykjavik in 1982, and Leader of the Independence Party in 1991. He became Prime Minister of Iceland in 1991, serving until 2004, when he became Minister of Foreign Affairs. During his more than 13 years as Prime Minister, he presided over an extensive programme of privatisation, liberalisation, stabilisation, tax reduction and deregulation.
Tom Palmer
 He received his doctorate from Oxford University in 2000. At present he is Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, Washington DC, having been Director of Student Affairs and Director of Eastern European Outreach Programs at the Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University, and Director of Special Projects, Cato Institute.
Birgir Thor Runolfsson
 He received his doctorate in economics from George Mason University in 1991. He is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Iceland.
Pascal Salin
 Born in 1939 he is Professor of Economics at the University of Paris-Dauphine. He is a past President of the Mont Pelerin Society and one of the founding members of the Institut Turgot.
Kari Stefansson
 He received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Iceland and was Professor of Neurology, Neuropathology and Neuroscience, first at the University of Chicago, then at Harvard University, until he founded, in 1996, Decode genetics, a biopharmaceutical company based in Reykjavik, Iceland, and a global leader in gene discovery.
Michael Walker
 Born in 1945 in Newfoundland, he received his doctorate in economics from the University of Western Ontario. HE worked at the Bank of Canada and the Federal Dept. of Finance, and taught at the University of Western Ontario and Carleton University, before he became the Executive Director of the Fraser Institute.
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