Gabriel Calzada

Gabriel Calzada is president of Universidad Francisco Marroquin, the pioneering free-market university founded in 1971 in Guatemala. He is past-president of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, member of the advisory board of Students for Liberty, and board member of the Mont Pelerin Society and the Rising Tide Foundation. In his native Spain, he was founding president of Juan de Mariana Institute, a think-tank that has gained international relevance for the impact of its innovative research and two-time recipient of Atlas Network’s Templeton Freedom Award. Gabriel’s 2009 study on the negative impact of the Spanish government’s promotion of “green jobs” reverberated around the world. In Spain, subsidies in place since 1996 were reversed. The study—featured on Fox News, Glenn Beck, and John Stossel—along with Gabriel’s testimony before the U.S. Congress helped bury that initiative. He holds a PhD in Economics from Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Spain, and has published over 1000 articles in national and international media. He has served as professor of Economics at IE University and Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. Gabriel also specializes in environmental and energy economics, the Austrian business cycle, and defense economics.