Hayek Lecture
The Hayek Lecture is hosted annually by the Institute of Economic Affairs in memory of Nobel Prize-winning economist Friedrich Hayek.
The first Annual Hayek Memorial Lecture was delivered by Jeffrey Sachs of Harvard University in June 1992. Now approaching its twentieth year, 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.[1]
Speakers
- 1992 – Jeffrey Sachs, Director, Earth Institute, Columbia University
- 1993 – Michael Novak, Director of Social and Political Studies, American Enterprise Institute
- 1994 – Peter Sutherland, 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 – Prof. Charles Calomiris, Columbia University
- 2002 – Hernando de Soto, President, of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy
- 2003 – Bill Emmott, former Editor-in-Chief, The Economist
- 2004 – Martin Wolf, Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times
- 2005 – Andrew Neil, journalist and broadcaster
- 2006 – The Hon Gale Norton, US Interior Secretary 2001-2006
- 2007 – Professor Terence Kealey, Vice Chancellor of the University of Buckingham
- 2008 – Paul Johnson, writer and historian
- 2009 – James Tooley, Professor of Education Policy at Newcastle University
- 2010 – Professor Gary Becker, economist and Nobel laureate
The 20th Annual Hayek Lecture, to be delivered in 2011, will be given by Robert Barro of Harvard University. Barro is considered one of the founders of new classical macroeconomics and is the current Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard.