The Hayek Lecture is hosted annually by the

Institute of Economic Affairs The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) is a British right-wing free market think tank, which is registered as a charity. Associated with the New Right, the IEA describes itself as an "educational research institute", and says that it seeks to ...

in memory of Nobel Prize-winning economist

Friedrich Hayek Friedrich August von Hayek (8 May 1899 – 23 March 1992) was an Austrian-born British academic and philosopher. He is known for his contributions to political economy, political philosophy and intellectual history. Hayek shared the 1974 Nobe ...

. The first Annual Hayek Memorial Lecture was delivered by

Jeffrey Sachs Jeffrey David Sachs ( ; born November 5, 1954) is an American economist and public policy analyst who is a professor at Columbia University, where he was formerly director of The Earth Institute. He worked on the topics of sustainable develop ...

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in June 1992. The lecture has been delivered by speakers ranging from academics to religious leaders, from politicians to historians. Subjects have included immigration, private education in the developing world, the economic relationship between China and Europe, and the future of capitalism.

Speakers

* 1992 –

, director, Earth Institute, Columbia University * 1993 –

Michael Novak Michael John Novak Jr. (September 9, 1933 – February 17, 2017) was an American Catholic philosopher, journalist, novelist, and diplomat. The author of more than forty books on the philosophy and theology of culture, Novak is most widely known ...

, director of social and political studies,

American Enterprise Institute The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, known simply as the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), is a center-right think tank based in Washington, D.C., that researches government, politics, economics, and social welfare ...

* 1994 –

Peter Sutherland Peter Denis Sutherland (25 April 1946 – 7 January 2018) was an Irish businessman, barrister and Fine Gael politician who served as UN Special Representative for International Migration from 2006 to 2017. He was known for serving in various in ...

, businessman and former attorney general of Ireland * 1995 – The Rt Hon Francis Maude MP, minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General * 1996 – Dr Donald Brash, former governor, Reserve Bank of New Zealand * 1997 – Dr Vaclav Klaus, president, Czech Republic * 1998 – Baron Jonathan Sacks, chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth * 1999 – Professor Otmar Issing, former member of the executive board of the European Central Bank * 2000 – Dr Benno Schmidt, Edison Schools * 2001 –

Charles Calomiris Charles William Calomiris (born November 8, 1957) is an American financial policy expert, author, and co-director of the Institute for Research in Economics in Washington, D.C. Previously, he was a professor at Columbia Business School, where he was ...

, Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions, Columbia Business School * 2002 –

Hernando de Soto Hernando de Soto (; ; 1497 – 21 May 1542) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who was involved in expeditions in Nicaragua and the Yucatan Peninsula. He played an important role in Francisco Pizarro's conquest of the Inca Empire in Peru, ...

, president, of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy * 2003 –

Bill Emmott William John Emmott (born 6 August 1956) is an English journalist, author, and consultant best known as the editor-in-chief of ''The Economist'' newspaper from 1993 to 2006. Emmott has written fourteen books and worked on two documentary featur ...

, former editor-in-chief, The Economist * 2004 –

Martin Wolf Martin Harry Wolf (born 16 August 1946 in London) is a British journalist who focuses on economics. He is the chief economics commentator at the ''Financial Times''. He also writes a weekly column for the French newspaper ''Le Monde''. Earl ...

, associate editor and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times * 2005 –

Andrew Neil Andrew Ferguson Neil (born 21 May 1949) is a British journalist and broadcaster. He was editor of ''The Sunday Times'' from 1983 to 1994. He has presented various political programmes on the BBC and on Channel 4. Born in Paisley, Renfrewshire ...

, journalist and broadcaster * 2006 – The Hon Gale Norton, US Interior Secretary 2001-2006 * 2007 – Terence Kealey, professor of clinical biochemistry, University of Buckingham * 2008 – Paul Johnson, writer and historian * 2009 –

James Tooley James Nicholas Tooley (born July 1959, in Southampton, England) is a professor of educational entrepreneurship and of education policy at the University of Buckingham. In July 2020, Tooley was appointed as the new Vice-Chancellor of the Univers ...

, professor of education policy at Newcastle University * 2010 – Professor Gary Becker, economist and Nobel laureate * 2011 –

Robert Barro Robert Joseph Barro (born September 28, 1944) is an American macroeconomist and the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Barro is considered one of the founders of new classical macroeconomics, along with Robert Lucas ...

of Harvard University. Considered one of the founders of new classical macroeconomic, Barro is the current Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard * 2012 –

Elinor Ostrom Elinor Claire "Lin" Ostrom (née Awan; August 7, 1933 – June 12, 2012) was an American Political science, political scientist and Political economy, political economist whose work was associated with New institutional economics, New Institution ...

, professor of political science, Indiana University, 2009

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laureate * 2013 –

Grover Norquist Grover Glenn Norquist (born October 19, 1956) is an American political activist and anti-tax advocate who is founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform, an organization that opposes all tax increases. A Republican, he is the primary pro ...

, president of

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(ATR), co-founder of the Islamic Free Market Institute * 2014 – John B. Taylor, Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

and the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at the

Hoover Institution The Hoover Institution (officially The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace and formerly The Hoover Institute and Library on War, Revolution, and Peace) is an American public policy think tank which promotes personal and economic ...

. * 2015 –

William Easterly William Russell Easterly (born September 7, 1957) is an American economist specializing in economic development. He is a professor of economics at New York University, joint with Africa House, and co-director of NYU's Development Research Institut ...

, professor of economics, New York University. * 2016 –

George Selgin George Selgin (; born February 15, 1957) is an American economist. He is Senior Fellow and Director Emeritus of the Cato Institute's Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, where he is editor-in-chief of the center's blog, ''Alt-M'', Prof ...

, professor emeritus of economics,

University of Georgia The University of Georgia (UGA or Georgia) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university with its main campus in Athens, Georgia, United States. Chartered in 1785, it is the oldest public university in th ...

* 2017 –

Steven Landsburg Steven E. Landsburg (born February 24, 1954) is an American professor of economics at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. From 1989 to 1995, he taught at Colorado State University. Landsburg is also an outspoken commentator on ...

, professor of economics,

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* 2018 –

Matt Ridley Matthew White Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley (born 7 February 1958), is a British science writer, journalist and businessman. He is known for his writings on science, the environment, and economics, and has been a regular contributor to ''The Tim ...

, author, journalist and businessman * 2019 –

Bryan Caplan Bryan Douglas Caplan (born April 8, 1971) is an American economist and author. He is a professor of economics at George Mason University, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and a former c ...

, professor of economics,

George Mason University George Mason University (GMU) is a Public university, public research university in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. Located in Northern Virginia near Washington, D.C., the university is named in honor of George Mason, a Founding Father ...

* 2020 – Stephen Davies, economic historian, author{{Cite AV media , url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr7GeoJv7rI , title=The World After the Pandemic - Hayek Lecture 2020 , date=2020-12-17 , last=Institute of Economic Affairs , access-date=2025-01-02 , via=YouTube * 2021 –

Thomas Sowell Thomas Sowell ( ; born June 30, 1930) is an American economist, economic historian, and social and political commentator. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. With widely published commentary and books—and as a guest on T ...

, economist * 2022 –

Joseph Henrich Joseph Henrich (born 1968) is an American anthropologist and professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University. Before arriving at Harvard, Henrich was a professor of psychology and economics at the University of British Columbia. H ...

, professor of evolutionary biology, Harvard University * 2023 –

Edward Chancellor John "Edward" Horner Chancellor (born December 1962), is a British financial historian, finance journalist, and former hedge fund investment strategist and a former investment banker. In 2016, the ''Financial Analysts Journal'' called him "one of ...

, financial historian

References

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