Marijana Bađun (Institute of Public Finance, Croatia)
Bađun was a faculty member in 2009.
Marijana Bađun is an assistant at the Institute of Public Finance in Zagreb, Croatia. Prior to joining the institute, Badjun was an assistant at the Department of Macroeconomics and Economic Development, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb (2001-2007). Her fields of interest are Quality of public governance, Economic growth, and Government's role in the economy. Badjun is a member of both Transparency International Croatia and the editorial board of the scientific journal Financijska teorija i praksa (Financial Theory and Practice). Bađun received her M.A. from Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb in 2005. Additionally, Badjun is an alumna of the American Institute on Political and Economic Systems, The Fund for American Studies, Prague in 1999.
Dr. John S. Baker, Jr. (Louisiana State University, USA)
Baker will be a faculty member in 2010.
John Baker is the Dale E. Bennett Professor of Law at the LSU Law Center. He has been director of LSU’s Latin America Program. He was a Visiting Professor at the law school of UPC, Lima Peru during 2009-10. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Lyon III (France) since 1999, a professor at the TFAS Legal Studies Institute since 2007, a Fulbright Scholar in the Philippines in 2006, and a lecturer at Hong Kong University in 2008 and 2009. He was a visiting professor at Georgetown Law School in 2008 and has also taught at Tulane, Pepperdine, and New York law schools. He regularly teaches Constitutional Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, and Mediation and has taught International Law, Anti-Terrorism Law, Law and Medicine, Criminal Procedure, Federal Courts, Conflicts of Law, and Civil Procedure. He argues in federal court, including having had oral arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court. Baker also teaches a course on Separation of Powers with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Scalia. Baker received his J.D., with honors, from the University of Michigan Law School and his B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Dallas. He also earned a PhD from the University of London.
Bernard Brščič (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Brščič has been a faculty member since 2008.
Bernard Brščič teaches economics at the University of Ljubljana. He earned master's degrees from both the University of Ljubljana and the London School of Economics and Political Science. The Ph.D. dissertation he is currently writing examines the relationship between Austrian and New Institutional Economics. Brščič also enjoys researching the History of Economic Thought, Political Economy, Economic Philosophy, and the Intellectual History of Liberalism. In 2000, together with Ljubo Sirc and Matej Kovač, he founded Ustanova za podjetništvo - Enterprise Institute.
Dr. Anže Burger (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Burger will be a faculty member in 2010.
Anže Burger is a researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana. Earlier, he was a young researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences and visiting researcher at LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance at KU Leuven, Belgium. In 2006, Burger co-founded Free Society Institute, a Slovenian think-tank promoting libertarian ideas. His work and research interest include international trade, foreign direct investment, outsourcing, international business, and industrial policy. In 2009, he earned his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana.
Wayne Crews (Competitive Enterprise Institute, USA)
Crews was a faculty member in 2009.
Wayne Crews is Vice President for Policy and Director of Technology Studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. Earlier, Wayne was a legislative aide in the United States Senate to Sen. Phil Gramm, covering regulatory and welfare reform issues. He was an Economist and Policy Analyst at Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation, and has worked as an a Research Assistant at the Center for the Study of Public Choice at George Mason University. His work includes regulatory reform, antitrust and competition policy, safety and environmental issues, and various information-age concerns such as privacy, "spam," broadband, and intellectual property. He is the author of the yearly report, Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State, and co-authored the recent report "Communications without Commissions: A National Plan for Reforming Telecom Regulation." Crews is co-editor of the books Who Rules the Net: Internet Governance and Jurisdiction (2003) and Copy Fights: The Future of Intellectual Property In the Information Age (2002). He is co-author of What's Yours Is Mine: Open Access and the Rise of Infrastructure Socialism (2003).
David Greenwald (II. gimnazija Maribor, Slovenia)
Greenwald will be a faculty member in 2010.
David Greenwald was born and raised in Dallas, Texas, but after four years of translation work in Graz, Austria in the early 90s (and many jobs prior to that which nobody in his right mind would want to hear about), he moved to Maribor, Slovenia, where he has been more or less happily teaching high school English for the last ten years. Although his BA is in German and he is now finishing a master's in counseling psychology, he has been an "armchair Austrian" for a few years now, studying the works of Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, F.A. Hayek, Henry Hazlitt and many others in his own time. These studies led him to develop a 30-hour project on the central bank for his Slovene students based on Rothbard's The Mystery of Banking, the materials for which are due to be published on the website of the Foundation for Economic Education next year, and which also includes an introduction to the Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle -- a theory whose timeliness today is regrettably undeniable.
Dr. Philip Hanson (Chatham House, UK)
Hanson was a faculty member in 2009.
Philip Hanson is an associate fellow at the Chatham House's Russia and Eurasia Programme. He is also a professor of the Political Economy of Russia and Eastern Europe at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham, UK. He was also a visiting professor, University of Michigan, 1977; senior Mellon fellow, Harvard University, 1986/87; senior economic affairs officer, UN ECE, 1991-92; distinguished fellow, RFE/RL Research Institute, Munich, 1992 and visiting professor, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto, 2000. His main areas of interest are Comparative Economic Systems, the Soviet and Russian economies, and Economics of Transition. Hanson is the author of numerous books on socialism, Russia's Soviet economy, Soviet-Western relations and development and innovation in Western and Eastern Europe. Hanson is currently working on the issue of business-state relations in Russia and on the assessment of Russian economic policies.
Dr. Andrei Illarionov (Cato Institute, USA)
Illarionov has been a faculty member since 2009.
Andrei Illarionov is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute's Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. From 2000 to December 2005 he was the chief economic adviser of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Illarionov also served as the president's personal representative (sherpa) in the G-8. From 1993 to 1994 Illarionov served as chief economic adviser to the prime minister of the Russian Federation, Viktor Chernomyrdin. He resigned in February 1994 to protest changes in the government's economic policy. In July 1994 Illarionov founded the Institute of Economic Analysis and became its director. Illarionov has coauthored several economic programs for Russian governments and has written three books and more than 300 articles on Russian economic and social policies. He is one of Russia's most forceful and articulate advocates of an open society and democratic capitalism. Illarionov received his Ph.D. from St. Petersburg University in 1987.
Ivan Janković (Katalaksija, Sebia)
Janković was a faculty member in 2008.
Ivan Janković is the editor of the web magazine Katalaksija. He has coauthored the libertarian economic programme of the Serbian LDP party, and often speaks to the media about economic issues. He has published numerous academic papers in Serbian and other foreign science journals. His research topics include political philosophy, economic theory (especially Austrian economics and public choice), and liberalism. Janković is currently an MA candidate in Political Science at University of Windsor in Canada, working on a thesis "Political Economy of Climate changem." Earlier, he earned an undergraduate degree in philosophy at the University of Belgrade and M.Phil in economics.
Primož Kocuvan (Libertarni klub, Slovenia)
Kocuvan has been a faculty member since 2008.
Primož Kocuvan is active in special solutions, entrepreneurship, and start-up support. Over 15 years, he has acquired a significant amount of skills and experience in media, capital markets and equity. Kocuvan is one of the founders of the Libertarni klub (2002), a non-governmental organization of classical liberal thinkers in Slovenia. Kocuvan graduated in economics, focusing on institutionalism, public choice, property rights and financial analysis. Kocuvan is a Communications and External Relations Manager at the Liberty Seminars.
Matej Kovač (Enterprise Institute, Slovenia)
Kovač has been a faculty member since 2008.
Matej Kovač, a physics graduate from University of Ljubljana, is currently the managing director for foreign markets for the Slovenian legal online publisher IUS Software. He also writes bi-weekly columns for the Slovenian business daily Finance. Previously, he worked for many years in trade and investment promotion, and as a World Bank resident consultant in Serbia. In his social and business life, Kovač strives to reconcile his conservative convictions with his admiration of classical liberalism and the demands of the market. Together with Ljubo Sirc and Bernard Brščič, he established the Enterprise Institute - Ustanova za podjetništvo, a think-tank in Kranj, Slovenia. Kovač lives in Ljubljana with his wife Mojca and their three children.
Dr. Tomasz Mickiewicz (University College London, UK)
Mickiewicz will be a faculty member in 2010.
Tomasz Mickiewicz is a professor of Comparative Economics at the Department of Social Sciences (SSEES), University College London, UK. He also serves on the board of trustees of the Centre for Research into Post-Communist Economies and on the editorial board of the journal Post-Communist Economies. In the past, he was a researcher at University of California at Davis and served as the deputy mayor of Lublin (Poland) responsible for economic policy and privatisation in the first democratically elected local government in Poland in 1990-1991. His principal research interests are entrepreneurship, privatisation, corporate governance, and the political economy of transition in the countries of Central Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Mickiewicz earned his habilitation from Marie Curie University in 2008, after obtaining Ph.D. from the Catholic University of Lublin, Poland.
Dr. John Moore (Grove City College, USA)
Moore was a faculty member in 2009.
John H. Moore is President Emeritus of Grove City College and Chairman of the American Council on Science and Health. A recipient of the NSF's Distinguished Public Service Award, Moore serves on National Research Council committees and on the board of directors of both the George C. Marshall Institute and the Civilian Research and Development Foundation. His career began in 1959 as a research chemist for the Procter & Gamble Company. He began his academic career at the University of Virginia, where he taught until 1977. While there, he developed research interests in the economic systems of the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. He has also taught at the University of Miami, Florida, Emory University and Stanford University, where he was associate director of the Hoover Institution. In 1983, he was appointed to the National Science Board and served until his appointment by President Ronald Reagan in 1985 as National Science Foundation (NSF) deputy director. In 1989, Moore found an International Institute at George Mason University (GMU). Moore has published numerous books and articles on subjects such as science policy and the economic systems of Eastern and Central Europe. Moore earned an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering, MBA from the University of Michigan and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Virginia.
Alexandar Novaković (Katalaksija, Serbia)
Novaković was a faculty member in 2008 and 2009.
Alexandar Novaković is from Belgrade, Serbia. After completing his undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, he earned both MA in Political Science and MA in Philosophy. Currently, Novaković is a researcher at the Institute for Political Studies, and also an editor of Katalaksija, the first libertarian internet magazine in Serbia. Novaković is a co-author of a book Freedom and the Public (Sloboda i Javnost) and author of many articles and reviews from political theory and philosophy.
Dr. Svetozar Pejovich (Texas A&M University, USA)
Pejović was a faculty member in 2009.
Svetozar Pejovich is a professor of emeritus at Texas A&M University. He is also a senior research fellow at International Centre for Economic Research, Torino, Italy, and a professor at University of Donja Gorica, Montenegro. In 2007, Pejovic was a visiting scholar at Mercatus Institute, George Mason University. Pejovich has written numerous books and articles on law & economics, including Law, Informal Rules and Economic Performance: The Case for Common Law (2008), The Economics of Property Rights (International Library of Critical Writings in Economics) (2001), and Life in the Soviet Union: A Report Card on Socialism (1987). Pejovich received an LL.B., from the University of Belgrade and a Ph.D. in economics from Georgetown University. Pejovich received an honorary doctorate from University of Belgrade in 2005.
Rado Pezdir (University of Primorska, Slovenia)
Pezdir has been a faculty member since 2009.
Rado Pezdir is an economist. Pezdir is teaching economics and finance at both International School for Social and Business Studies in Celje, University of Maribor and Faculty of Mathematics, Sciences and Information Technologies, University of Primorska. Pezdir is an author of a book on Slovenian transition, titled Slovenska tranzicija od Kardelja do tajkunov (2008) and writes an open editorial for business daily Finance. He has appeared on various Slovenian TV and radio channels. Pezdir obtain master's degree in economics from the University of Ljubljana and is currently working on a Ph.D. dissertation.
Dr. Miroslav Prokopijević (University of Beograd, Serbia)
Prokopijević was a faculty member in 2009.
Miroslav Prokopijević is a senior research fellow and chief-director of EU-related projects at the Institute for European Studies (IES) in Belgrade. He has lectured in numerous countries in Europe and North America. Among others, Prokopijević teaches various public choice courses at the Belgrade Open School, the Alternative Academic Educational Network and at the University of Montenegro. His main areas of interest are Public Choice Theory and Moral & Political Philosophy. Prokopijevic is the author of both European Union and European Monetary Union. Prokopijević undertook undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Economics and Philosophy at the University of Belgrade. He earned his PhD from Zagreb University with his thesis entitled Understanding and Rationality.
Borislav Ristić (Katalaksija, Serbia)
Ristić was a faculty member in 2009.
Borislav Ristić is a philosopher and political theorist from Serbia. His main research topics include classical liberalism, Kantian political philosophy and psychoanalysis. Ristić is one of the leading members of the new generation of Serbian libertarians, devoted to spreading classical liberal ideas in this country as well as to critique of totalitarian and collectivist and national-socialist elements of Serbian political heritage. He is one of the founders of Katalaksija, the first libertarian magazine in Serbia.
Dr. Ljubo Sirc (Centre for Research into Post-Communist Economies, UK)
Sirc has been a faculty member since 2008.
Trained in both economics and law, Ljubo Sirc was able to unite the perspective of a scholar with personal experience to observe firsthand the dangers of communist regimes. Born in Kranj, Slovenia, he participated in the Resistance and served in the Yugoslav Army between 1941 and 1945. In 1947, due to his political opposition and friendship with Western diplomats, he was sentenced to death. His sentence was ultimately commuted to twenty years in prison, of which he served seven, much of it in solitary confinement. In his various teaching posts since then, including twenty years at the University of Glasgow, Sirc has been a leading expert on socialist economics and communist regimes. Since 1983, he has served as Director of the Centre for Research into Post-Communist Economies (CRCE) in London. He is the author of numerous books and articles in a variety of languages. His autobiography, Between Hitler and Tito, was published in 1989.
Benjamin Stafford (Foundation for Economic Education, USA)
Stafford will be a faculty member in 2010.
Benjamin Stafford is the director of programs at the Foundation for Economic Education, a free market educational institute with offices in New York and Atlanta. Stafford first joined FEE in 2008 as a research assistant. In 2010 he graduated from the Koch Associate Program, a management training program in DC. Originally from Michigan, he received his undergraduate degree in economics from Hillsdale College. As a Koch Summer Fellow, he was a research intern at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Stafford is an alumnus of the Liberty Seminars, attending the first Liberty Camp in 2008. Stafford is a program manager of the Liberty Seminars 2010.
Dr. Krassen Stanchev (Institute for Market Economics, Bulgaria)
Stanchev will be a faculty member in 2010.
Krassen Stanchev is currently Senior Consultant and Central Asia Regional Advisor for Pragma Corp. He is also Board Chairman, Founder and former Executive Director of the Institute for Market Economics (IME), Bulgaria's first independent and free market think thank; former member and committee chair of the Constitutional Assembly (1990-1991); one of the most quoted Bulgarian observers; best country analyst award recipient for 1996 by Euromoney; and a nominee for Bulgaria's Mr. Ekonomika 2004. Stanchev was a principle drafter of a number of reforms from central planning to market economy and is one of the leaders of those reforms. His expertise is in economic and regulatory policies conducive to private sector growth: cost-benefit analysis of regulations (and related public governance areas), business environment and administrative barriers, competitiveness, law making (environment policy, mortgage bonds, special purpose investment vehicles, business registration, limiting licensing and permits, private bailiffs, and other bills) and think tank management. Stanchev leads, led or was involved in projects and services related to market oriented and democratic reforms in other countries, Balkans and Former Soviet Union.
Ružica Šimić (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
Šimić will be a faculty member in 2010.
Ružica Šimić is a research and teaching assistant at the Department of Economic Policy at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Croatia. In the spring of 2010 she was a fellow at the Department of Economics at the George Washington University in Washington, DC as a part of the Junior Faculty Development Program. Before joining the academic community, Šimić was an advisor at the Croatian National Competitiveness Council and had worked in the private sector as well. Both her educational and professional background inspired her to focus her research on the institutional change in transition economies of Southeast Europe. Šimić is a Ph.D. student at the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. As a Chevening scholar she received her MA in Public Policy from King’s College London. Šimić received her BA from the Faculty of Economics in Zagreb.
Tanja Štumberger (Cato Institute, USA)
Štumberger has been a faculty member since 2008.
Tanja Štumberger is a genuine and passionate fighter for liberty. Far from her native Slovenia, she is both research associate and manager of external relations at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank in Washington, D.C., where she has been making a valuable contribution to the libertarian movement since 2006. In addition, Štumberger is actively involved with Libertarni klub in Slovenia, organizing Liberal Colloquiums and Liberty Seminars since 2008. Further, Štumberger serves on both Globalization Institute (Poland) scientific board and The Fund for American Studies (USA) alumni council. From 2006 to 2008, Štumberger was a member of the Free Society Institute, a Slovenian NGO promoting libertarian ideas. As an undergraduate, Štumberger studied Applied Economics at both University of Maribor, Slovenia, and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. She continued her education with graduate studies in American Political Science at both the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and Georgetown University, United States. Štumberger is the executive director of the Liberty Seminars in Slovenia.
Dr. Janez Šušteršič (University of Primorska, Slovenia)
Šušteršič was a faculty member in 2009.
Janez Šušteršič is an associate professor of economics at Faculty of Management, University of Primorska. Šušteršič is also a professor at the private Faculty of Applied Social Studies in Nova Gorica and the International School for Social and Business Studies in Celje. From 2001 to 2007, he was director of the Institute of Macroeconomic Analysis and Development (IMAD). Šušteršič also vice-chaired the government's Reforms Committee and served as the national Lisbon Strategy coordinator. From 2005 to 2007 he was vice-chairman of the Economic Policy Committee to the ECOFIN. Šušteršič was one of the initiators of the international Institutions in Transition conference and one of the founding members of the Slovenian Macro-Economic Forum (SMF). Šušteršič co-authored articles published in Public Choice, Post-Communist Economies and Acta Oeconomica. Šušteršič obtained a doctorate in the political economy of transition from the University of Ljubljana.
Dr. Ivica Urban (Institute of Public Finance, Croatia)
Urban will be a faculty member in 2010.
Ivica Urban is a researcher at the Institute of Public Finance in Zagreb, Croatia. His research interests are in the fields of fiscal incidence and income distribution. In his spare time, Urban has translated into Croatian both Mises’ Bureaucracy and Rothbard’s Power and Market. Urban obtained his M.A. from the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb (2006) and Ph.D. from the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana (2010).
Dr. Katarina Zajc (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Zajc will be a faculty member in 2010.
Katarina Zajc is an associate professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Ljubljana. At the faculty, she is a member of the Chair of Law and Economics. In 2009-10 Zajc was a visiting professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Further, in 2009 Zajc started a six year member term of the Judicial Council of Slovenia. Earlier in her career, she was among other an arbiter at the Permanent Arbitrage at the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce, a lecturer at the Police Academy in Slovenia, a research and teaching assistant at George Mason University, USA and a researcher at the Vienna Institute for Comparative Economic Studies, Austria. She earned her Ph.D. from George Mason University, USA: where she received a Snavely Award for being the best Ph.D. student in Economics. Zajc also received an LL.M. from Yale Law School, USA and a bachelor degree from the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana.
Matija Žepič (Libertarni klub, Slovenia)
Žepič will be a faculty member in 2010.
Žepič is an analyst at a bank in Slovenia. In addition, he has been a member of Libertarni klub since 2009. He specializes in banking and finance. Žepič has extensive experience evaluating the impacts of legislative and regulatory proposals on financial markets. He's written numerous articles in monetary theory, banking and Austrian business cycle theory. Currently, he's working on his master's thesis in Austrian Economics with a working title "The Importance of Money: Central Planning vs. Free Markets". Žepič received an undergraduate degree in Political economy at the Faculty of Economics, the University of Ljubljana.
