Jeff Bennett
Australian National University
Jeff Bennett is an Emeritus Professor in the Arndt Corden Department of Economics in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. Professor Bennett has extensive experience in researching, consulting, and teaching in the fields of Environmental Economics, Natural Resource Economics, Agricultural Economics, and Applied Micro-Economics. Jeff is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and a Distinguished Fellow of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society. 

 

Eamonn Butler
Adam Smith Institute
Eamonn Butler is Director of the Adam Smith Institute, a leading London-based think-tank which he helped to establish. Eamonn holds degrees in economics, philosophy, and psychology, including a PhD from the University of St Andrews. Dr Butler is the author of numerous books on the pioneering economists Milton Friedman, F. A. Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, and Adam Smith, including Friedrich Hayek: The Ideas and Influence of the Libertarian Economist and Hayek: His Contributions to the Political and Economic Thought of Our Time. Eamonn contributes to the leading UK print and broadcast media on current issues, and his recent popular publications The Best Book on the Market, The Rotten State of Britain, and The Alternative Manifesto have attracted considerable attention. He has contributed articles to national magazines and newspapers on subjects ranging from health policy, economic management, taxation and public spending, transport, pensions, and welfare. In 2023, Eamonn received the Hayek Lifetime Achievement Award from the Friedrich A. v. Hayek Institute. He has also served as Secretary on the Board of Directors of the Mont Pelerin Society.  

 

Elena Douglas
Knowledge Society
Elena Douglas is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Knowledge Society. She is also the founder of Primary Focus and serves on the Advisory Board of Deloitte Access Economics. Elena advises leaders in government, private, not-for-profit, and philanthropy sectors on program design and evaluation, systems change, and the economics of education. Elena was the Convenor of the Centre for Social Impact at the UWA Business School, where she taught philanthropy, social investment, and leadership for social impact. She was also the founding CEO of Advance - Global Australian Professionals, which is a network for Australia professionals overseas that is headquartered in New York. Elena is also a regular columnist and essayist for the Australian Financial Review and The Australian. 

 

Anthony Endres
University of Auckland
Anthony Endres is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Auckland. Professor Endres is a specialist in the history of economic thought, Austrian economics, and the history and theory of international economic policy. In addition to publishing numerous books, such as Neoclassical Microeconomic Theory: The Founding Austrian Version (1997), International Organisations and the Analysis of Economic Policy 1919-1950 (2001), Great Architects of International Finance: The Bretton Woods Era (2004), and International Financial Integration: Competing Ideas and Policies in the Post-Bretton Woods Era (2010), he has published in a wide range of international journals, including the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, and History of Political Economy. For the occasion of this FTC, he will draw upon his review of The Road to Serfdom: The Definitive Edition (ed. B. Caldwell) in the History of Economics Review (vol.48 2008) and his articles on industry policy and capital formation in The Supreme Court Economic Review (vol.23 2015) and Cambridge Journal of Economics (vol.44 2020).