Amartuvshin Dorj – is the Co-Founder and Chairman of the Mises Mongolia NGO. Since 2008, he has been free market and individual freedom activist, and leading numerous advocacy projects that have raised public awareness and community building efforts.

He has led and co-led many projects, including translation and publications of essays and books such as Anatomy of the State by Murray Rothbard, Economic Policy by Ludwig Von Mises, and From totalitarianism to defective democracy by Michal Klima. Also he has co-organized many

events and workshops such as “Freedom based Development talk” lecture series (2013-2015), The Liberty summer School (2008-2016) and Free Market Academy (2015-2017) in Mongolia. Also, in 2017 he was the main organizer of Ayn Rand Conference Mongolia, and invited distinguished guests such as Yaron Brook, Director of Ayn Rand Institute and Carl Barney, Board of Cato Institute in the Conference.

Mr. Amartuvshin is active in the media and frequently shares his expertise through speaking engagements on free market and individual rights including national TV discussions.

Andrés Cusme Franco grew up in Guayaquil and obtained his degree in International Business at Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, based in Ecuador. He is a leader at The Bastiat Society of Ecuador, an important think tank influencing all over the world, which is also a chapter of the American Institute of Economic Research AIER. Proud FEE Alumni and active collaborator of leading pro-liberty organizations in Ecuador, Colombia and USA. Experienced professional in Supply Chain Management and business consultant at the agronomic industry.

BATCHULUUN Baldandorj (Mongolia) – Ph.D., is a doctor of philosophy and one of the top libertarian activists in Mongolia. He has been working as an Associate Professor at School of International Studies of Jawarharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. Dr.Batchuluun has authored, co-authored, translated and edited many books and articles on libertarian topics and philosophy.

Speech topic: “ANTI-LIBERTARIAN TRADITIONS AND OBSTACLES IN MONGOLIA (On the experiences of my libertarian deed)”

Christopher LINGLE – earned a doctorate in economics from the University of Georgia in 1977 and has been employed at universities in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and USA.

He is a passionate supporter of human creativity and voluntary actions that lead to social harmony. To this end, he is available to go anywhere in the world to discuss the merits of institutions and public policy based on their impacts on human liberty and personal dignity.

Currently, he is Visiting Professor of Economics in the Escuela de Negocios at Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala (since 1998), Adjunct Scholar at the Centre for Independent Studies (Sydney), Research Scholar at the Centre for Civil Society (New Delhi), International Political Economic Advisor for the Asian Institute for Diplomacy and International Affairs (AIDIA – Kathmandu) & Senior Fellow, Advocata (Colombo, Sri Lanka).

Dr. LINGLE’s research interests are in the areas of Political Economy and International Economics with a focus on emerging market economies and public policy reform in East and Central Europe, East Asia, Latin America, and Southern Africa.

Daniel J. Mitchell – is Chairman of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity, a pro-market public policy organization he founded in 2000. His major research interests include tax reform, international tax competition, the economic burden of government spending, and other fiscal policy issues. Having also worked at the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute, he has decades of experience authoring papers, writing editorials, working with the public policy community, and presenting the free-market viewpoint to newspaper, television, and radio media. Dan has spoken to a wide variety of groups in dozens of cities and more than 50 foreign countries. He also serves on the editorial board of the Cayman Financial Review, and holds a Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University.

Speech topic: “Global Lessons for Prosperity”

David G. Vequist IV, Ph.D. – is the founder and Director of the Center for Medical Tourism Research (CMTR) - the first academic research center devoted to medical tourism research (www.medicaltourismresearch.org). He is also a Tenured Full Professor of Management in the H-E-B School of Business & Administration at the University of the Incarnate Word (UIW) in San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A. Before that, Dr. Vequist was an executive for Methodist Healthcare (billion dollar healthcare system in Texas) and previously was a consultant for Ernst & Young LLC. He is an accomplished speaker, author, researcher and futurist on the topic of healthcare trends, medical & retirement tourism, health technologies, social media analytics, training, development, leadership, and technology management. He has presented on five continents, consulted with Fortune 500 corporations, NGOs, countries and has produced numerous articles, papers, and book chapters, and been interviewed in many publications and channels.
Email him at: vequist@uiwtx.edu.

Speech topic: “Free Market Healthcare & Economic Growth in Asia”

Enkhchimeg Davaanyam – is the current CEO Mongol iD LLC – and internet based enterprise and Board member of the Silk Road Foundation. Enkhchimeg  has been serving as the CEO & President of PETROVIS LLC, which is one of the major petroleum products import and distribution company in Mongolia with extensive sales network throughout the country and which is actively involved in oil exploration, insurance, industrial lubricants import, and recently in coal mining, processing and export business and other projects directly or through its subsidiaries and joint ventures.

Speech topic: “The case of Mongolian price regulation on gasoline - its consequences”.

Glenn Cripe - Founder and president of the Language of Liberty Institute. Since 2005, Glenn has brought LLI’s Liberty Camps and Seminars to over 3000 students in 28 countries, expanding his network of freedom fighters around the world. When not hosting Liberty Camps, Glenn recruits and develops new local partners, teachers, and donors for the Institute. Glenn pursued a career in IT development, consulting, and training. He takes special pride in having helped organize the project to translate and publish the works of Ayn Rand into Russian in 1993 — the first time her works could be read in her native language.

Hiroshi Yoshida – is a pioneer of the governmental accounting.

His point is that it is incorrect for a government to treat public goods as its own assets. Public goods are taxpayers’ properties. Public goods need to be shifted to the taxpayers’ balance sheet from the government balance sheet. After this shift, the difference between whatever remains on government asset and liability is the balance which needs to be fulfilled by “future tax” to be imposed on taxpayers.

He emphasizes the importance of creating “Performance report” for the government. Performance report shows how well or how bad the government managed taxpayers money to meet social demand. It is the government’s responsibility to produce satisfactory results for taxpayers.

Hiroshi has won the academic award by his book “Theory of Public Sector Accounting” from JICPA (Japanese Institute of Certified Accountants).

Hugo Van Reijen - Currency Specialist

Hugo van Reijen is an economist of Dutch origin. In 1985 he emigrated with his company to Guernsey, Channel Islands. This company distributes collectors' items among wholesalers around the world. Hugo is a staunch supporter of free-market ideas, a much smaller government and free immigration with abolition of current compulsory insurance schemes.

Jan Kuban – President of the Polish-American Foundation for Economic Research and Education, an entrepreneur, a cybernetic specialist. Author of the books „The Physics of Life” and "The 59 keys for understanding the beginning of life". Owner of an IT company.

JARGALSAIKHAN Dambadarjaa

Mr. Jargalsaikhan Dambadarjaa (known as Jargal DeFacto) is an independent economist and media representative of Mongolia. He is a Mongolian political and economic observer, columnist, and host of TV’s Defacto Debate, Defacto Review, and Defacto Interview, weekly television interviews on VTV in Mongolia, featuring distinguished Mongolian, English and Russian-speaking guests from across the globe. Jargal also hosts Radio DeFacto, a radio talk show aired daily at 6:30pm on Business Radio 98.9FM.

He is a founder of The Defacto Institute, an independent research think tank that also publishes the ’The Defacto Gazette’, a weekly analytical newspaper covering the politics and economics of Mongolia—in English, Japanese, Russian, and Mongolian.

Since 2009, Jargal has been writing weekly articles on the current economic, political and social issues in the country, which are printed in Mongolian and English daily newspapers. He contributes to public opinion formation in the country through a range of formal and social media.

Jargal has a long career history in the industries including banking and financing, public office (Head of FIFTA, Board of Foreign Investment of Mongolia), tourism and petroleum sectors. His volunteer and board positions include Mongolians for Fair Taxes and Wise Spending, a taxpayers association (President), Mongolian National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation - MONPECC (General Secretary 2007- 2016), Mongolian Association of State Alumni – MASA (President 2010-2013), Moscow State University Mongolian Alumni (President 2013-present), Silk Road Foundation (Chair 2013-2016) and The Economic Club of Ulaanbaatar (President).

Speech topic: “Intellectual entrepreneurship”

Ken Schoolland (USA) – An associate professor of economics at Hawaii Pacific University, Ken Schoolland is also president of the International Society for Individual Liberty. He authored the award-winning “The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible: A Free Market Odyssey,” which has been translated into over 50 languages.

Speech topic: “How Nations Embrace Entrepreneurship”

Khalil Ahmad, Dr. – is a political economist and a political philosopher. He cherishes a cosmopolitan spirit and considers himself a moralist and a rationalist. He founded the first free market think tank in Pakistan, Alternate Solutions Institute. He wrote/published hundreds of articles on the various aspects of political economy of Pakistan, and on a variety of issues.He is author of a number of books that focus on the state, economy and politics of Pakistan.

Khaliunbat Myagmarjav (Mongolia) –One of the top libertarians in Mongolia, founder and CEO of the Silk Road Foundation, which aims to promote individual freedom, free market, free society and limited government in Mongolia. Since establishing the foundation, Khaliunbat has initiated and implemented many projects, including book and magazine publications, TV program and workshops to promote free market in Mongolia. He will speak on entrepreneurship and innovation.

Kyle Varner – MD, earned his BA from St. John’s College, his MD from the American University of Antigua College of Medicine, and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Tripler Army Medical Center. He is holds board certification from the American Board of Internal Medicine and practices hospital medicine in Washington State, Alaska and Maine. A Libertarian Party member since 1999, he has served as the Treasurer of the Libertarian Party of Hawaii and currently serves on the board of directors of Liberty International.

Leonardo Brito - Leonardo Brito is a business man from Caracas. He runs The Bastiat Society of Venezuela - the local free market think tank and also a chapter of the American Institute of Economic Research - with Luis López and is an active member of Rumbo Libertad (RL Venezuelas liberty warriors movement). Collaborates with many pro-liberty organizations in Latin America. Has been persecuted and detained by the military regime in 2 occasions. Currently exiled in Peru.

Speech topic: “Venezuela: Is there a hope”

Li Zhao Schoolland (USA/China) – Director of External Relations—Asia Pacific for the Acton Institute and the Founder of TFT Events. She is an independent educator, writer, translator, and event organizer. Mrs. Schoolland survived 26 years through the horrors of Mao’s regime in China. This motivated her to a lifetime of promoting freedom and liberty globally. She arranges translation and publication of libertarian literature in China and coaches parents in raising liberty-minded youth.

Speech topic: “Rethinking Poverty Cure”

Mr. MA Junjie – is CEO of ENC Center for Global Affairs, a private think tank based in Beijing.

He is a member of Mont Pelerin Society; Associate Researcher at Centre International de Formation Européenne(CIFE); and former Researcher at Unirule Institute of Economics.

He is an alumnus of International Visitors Leadership Program(IVLP) of the US Department of State, and a two-time alumnus of International Academy for Leadership (IAF) of Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom(FNF).

Mr. MA Junjie is a regular speaker at Asia Liberty Forum, CIFE’s annual and special conferences, and foreign embassies in Beijing.

His research interests range from China’s economic and political reforms, property rights, innovation and entrepreneurship, reform of state-owned enterprises, and the development of private enterprises, to climate change issues, and corporate social responsibilities.

He is a columnist for multiple major Chinese newspapers and journals, such as China Business Journal(中国经营报), The Economic Observer(经济观察报), and Caixin Media(财新传媒), and a regular contributor to international media outlets, such as The Diplomat, Yicai Global, Foundation for Economics Education(FEE), and L’Europe en Formation.

The mission of the ENC Centre for Global Affairs is to provide a balanced view for future leaders, opinion-molders, and young professionals in China regarding global affairs. The long-term objective would be to establish a continued and institutionalized learning process available to Chinese young leaders. The vision of this endeavor is to join the civil society and be an active member that promotes libertarian values and ideas.

Maria Alejandra Londono – National Director in the Colombian Libertarian Movement, working in diverse projects to spread libertarian ideas and gain political relevance. Through her online plataform Alejandra Research's she advocates for financial freedom and Fintech activism. Magna Cum Laude Professional in Finance and International Trade, Minor in Humanities from Sergio Arboleda University. Business Analyst with focus on Emerging Markets.

Speech topic: “The Role of Subsoil Privatization in the Reduction of the Latinamerican Goverments”

María José Bernal Gaviria – Studies economics with an emphasis in applied economics at EAFIT University in Medellin-Colombia. Intern at Asociación Nacional de Empresarios (ANDI). She is a Students For Liberty coordinator in her country and fellow of Centro de Estudios Libertad y Paz. Alumni of institutes like Foundation for Economic Education, Reason Individualism and Freedom Institute, Cato, The Fund for American Studies and Ayn Rand Institute, she is currently doing her thesis for graduating this year and is committed to developing new projects to promote principles of liberty in her society.

Mary Ruwart - Research scientist, ethicist, and a libertarian author/activist. She received her B.S. in biochemistry in 1970 and her Ph.D. in Biophysics in 1974 (both from Michigan State University). Dr. Ruwart serves as Chair of the Liberty International, and Secretary of the Foundation for a Free Society. She has been an At-Large member of the Libertarian National Committee, served on the Board of both the Heartland Institute and the Fully Informed Jury Amendment Association.

Mirsuljan Namazaliev – Central Asian Free Market Institute, Kyrgyz Republic

Mr. Mirsuljan Namazaliev is the Managing Director of the Central Asian Free Market Institute, which he founded in 2009. He owned and managed K-News LLC (2015-2017), one of the leading online news sources in Kyrgyzstan. He is the founding curator at the Global Shapers Hub in Bishkek, initiative of the World Economic Forum. Previously, Mr. Namazaliev has represented the Zurich-based Neweurasia Citizen Media company in Kyrgyzstan (2006-2014), founded and lead various civic movements and organizations that promoted democratic changes under authoritarian regimes in the country (2004-2008). He stands for the Rule of Law, Economic Freedom and Minimal Government. Mr. Namazaliev holds a BA in political science from the Bishkek Humanities University (2009).

Pedro Urruchurtu (Caracas, 1990) – is a Venezuelan political activist and the National Coordinator of Political Training/Education of Vente Venezuela, a liberal party led by María Corina Machado, one of the most important opposition leaders in Venezuela. He is also Vice President of the International Federation of Liberal Youth (IFLRY), a global umbrella with +70 young organizations around the world. In addition, Pedro is a writer, university professor and graduated in Political Science, with Magna Cum Laude honor, specializing in international relations. He has represented Venezuela in various libertarian forums, both in Latin America and around the world.

Per Bylund - Ph.D., is assistant professor of entrepreneurship and holds the Records-Johnston Professorship of Free Enterprise in the School of Entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University. He is a fellow of the Mises Institute in Auburn, Al., and associate fellow of the Ratio Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. His research focuses on entrepreneurial value creation, economic growth, and Austrian economics, and he is the author of two books and he edits the Austrian Economics book series published by Agenda Publishing. He publishes a column at Entrepreneur magazine and has featured in the Wall Street Journal among other mainstream outlets. He has written extensively on libertarian theory, practice, and policy over more than two decades, much of which can be found at mises.org, lewrockwell.com, strike-the-root.com, and libertarianinstitute.org, as well as on Anarchism.net, which he co-founded in 1999.

Tom G. Palmer – is the George M. Yeager Chair for Advancing Liberty and executive vice president for international programs at the Atlas Network, and is responsible for establishing operating programs in 14 languages and managing programs for a worldwide network of think tanks. He is also a senior fellow at Cato Institute and director of Cato University. Before joining Cato he was an H. B. Earhart Fellow at Hertford College, Oxford University, and a vice president of the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University. He frequently lectures in North America, Europe, Eurasia, Africa, Latin America, India, China and throughout Asia, and the Middle East on political science, public choice, civil society, and the moral, legal, and historical foundations of individual rights. He has published reviews and articles on politics and morality in scholarly journals such as the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Ethics, Critical Review, and Constitutional Political Economy, as well as in publications such as Slate, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Die Welt, Caixing, Al Hayat, the Washington Post, and The Spectator of London. He is the author of Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice (expanded edition 2014), and the editor of The Morality of Capitalism (2011), After the Welfare State (2012), Why Liberty (2013), Peace, Love & Liberty (2014) and Self-Control or State Control? You Decide (2106). Palmer received his B.A. in liberal arts from St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, his M.A. in philosophy from The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., and his doctorate in politics from Oxford University.

Speech topic: “The Populist Assault on Libertarianism”

Tsenguun Purevjav – is the founder of the Mongolian Libertarian Foundation (MLF), which aims to spread the ideas of individual freedom, free-market economy and limited government to Mongolian youth and scholars. He has supported, redacted, and funded the Mongolian translations of various Austrian School of economy authors such as F.A. Hayek, L. von Mises and M. Skousen. Tsenguun was also the first to initiate and sponsor the translations of Ayn Rand’s most notable novels. Up to date, he has supported the translations of over 20 economic and philosophic books. He has been serving as the CEO of Altan Taria, an agri-food business, in Mongolia for 20 years.

Wei Wu, Dr. – is a Research Assistant at the University of Oxford. He has been doing research in the area of financial inclusion and innovation in the past 9 years. He was working for a FinTech firm in Beijing before he started his PhD in the University of Birmingham in 2012. Along with his research, he has also involved with several philanthropic projects and start-ups globally, which helps tea and coffee producers to better adapt into the global production network and the global value chain. He is also the founder of WeiPoint, a start-up consulting firm in the UK, to help the small businesses and diaspora enterprenuers grow at the regional and the global market.

Yaron Brook - is chairman of the board of the Ayn Rand Institute. He wears many hats at the institute and travels extensively as ARI’s spokesman.

An internationally sought-after speaker and debater, He is a coauthor, with Don Watkins, of the national best-seller Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government, Brook and Watkins argue that the answer to our current economic woes lies not in "trickle-down government" but in Rand's inspiring philosophy of capitalism and self-interest. Last year, Brook and Watkins released a new book, Equal Is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality, a book that shows the real key to making America a freer, fairer, more prosperous nation is to protect and celebrate the pursuit of success―not pull down the high fliers in the name of equality. Brook is also contributing author to Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea, Winning the Unwinnable War: America’s Self-Crippled Response to Islamic Totalitarianism and Big Tent: The Story of the Conservative Revolution — As Told by the Thinkers and Doers Who Made It Happen. He was a columnist at Forbes.com, and his articles have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Investor’s Business Daily and many other publications.

Brook was born and raised in Israel. He served as a first sergeant in Israeli military intelligence and earned a BSc in civil engineering from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel. In 1987 he moved to the United States where he received his MBA and PhD in finance from the University of Texas at Austin; he became an American citizen in 2003. For seven years he was an award-winning finance professor at Santa Clara University, and in 1998 he cofounded BH Equity Research, a private equity and hedge fund manager, of which he is managing founder and director.

Brook serves on the boards of the Ayn Rand Institute, the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism and CEHE (Center for Excellence in Higher Education), and he is a member of the Association of Private Enterprise Education and the Mont Pelerin Society.

Speech topic: “Reason & Individualism as Prerequisites for Entrepreneurship & Innovation”

Yuri Maltsev –Professor of Economics at the A.W. Clausen Center for World Business at  Carthage College in Wisconsin. He held,over a fifteen-year period, various teaching and research positions in Moscow, Russia. Prior to emigrating to the United States in 1989, he was a member of a senior team of Soviet economists that worked on President Gorbachev's reforms package of perestroika.Before settling in the Midwest, Dr. Maltsev served as a Senior Fellow of The Jennings Randolph Program for International Peace at the U.S. Institute of Peace of the United States Congress. There he analyzed problems of the postcommunist transition to a market economy, with special emphasis on privatization and deregulation. In the US Dr. Maltsev has visited all states of the Union, giving lectures at leading universities, corporations, banks, colleges, churches, schools and community centers. He has appeared on        Cable Network News (CNN), Financial Network News, PBS NewsHour, SABC, MSNBC Africa, SABC, C-Span,            and other American, Canadian, Lithuanian, Russian, Spanish, South African, and Finnish television and radio programs. He has authored nine books and over two hundred articles.

Dr. Maltsev serves as a member of the advisory boards of the Foundation for Economic Education; Center on Global Prosperity of the Independent Institute, Heartland Institute; and the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. He is a Senior Fellow of the Ludwig Von Mises Institute at Auburn, Alabama.

Speech topic: “A global assault on liberty. Collectivism vs. individualism in our time”