The Hayek Lecture is hosted annually by the

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in memory of Nobel Prize-winning economist

Friedrich Hayek Friedrich August von Hayek ( , ; 8 May 189923 March 1992), often referred to by his initials F. A. Hayek, was an Austrian–British economist, legal theorist and philosopher who is best known for his defense of classical liberalism. Haye ...

. The first Annual Hayek Memorial Lecture was delivered by Jeffrey Sachs of

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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 – Jeffrey Sachs, 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 * 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 – Charles Calomiris, Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions, Columbia Business School * 2002 –

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, president, of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy * 2003 – Bill Emmott, former editor-in-chief, The Economist * 2004 –

Martin Wolf Martin Harry Wolf (born 16 August 1946 in London) is a British journalist of Austrian-Dutch descent who focuses on economics. He is the associate editor and chief economics commentator at the ''Financial Times''. Early life Wolf was born in ...

, 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 –

Terence Kealey George Terence Evelyn Kealey (born 16 February 1952) is a British biochemist who was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham, a private university in Britain. He was appointed Professor of Clinical Biochemistry in 2011. Prior to his tenur ...

, 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 Universi ...

, professor of education policy at Newcastle University * 2010 – Professor Gary Becker, economist and Nobel laureate * 2011 – Robert Barro of Harvard University. Considered one of the founders of new classical macroeconomic, Barro is the current Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard.{{Cite web, url=http://www.iea.org.uk/events/annual-iea-hayek-memorial-lecture-0, title = Annual IEA Hayek Memorial Lecture * 2012 – Elinor Ostrom, professor of political science, Indiana University, 2009

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laureate * 2013 – Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), co-founder of the

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* 2014 – John B. Taylor, Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at

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

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. * 2015 – William Easterly, professor of economics, New York University. * 2016 –

George Selgin George Selgin (; born 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'', Professor Emeritu ...

, professor emeritus of economics,

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* 2017 –

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, 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 ''Th ...

, author, journalist and businessman * 2019 –

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

, professor of economics,

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* 2020 – Stephen Davies, economic historian, author * 2021 – Thomas Sowell, economist * 2022 –

Joseph Henrich Joseph Henrich (born 1968) is an American professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University. Prior to arriving at Harvard, Henrich was a professor of psychology and economics at the University of British Columbia. He is interested i ...

, 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 investment strategist. In 2016, the ''Financial Analysts Journal'' called him "one of the great financial writers of our era", a ...

, financial historian

References

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