Pedro Schwartz

Pedro Schwartz is “Rafael del Pino Professor” in the Department of Economics at Camilo José Cela University in Madrid and visiting professor at the University of Buckingham in the UK. Until September 2016 he was the President of the Mont Pelerin Society, of which he is a member since 1978. He is a Bachelor and Doctor in Laws of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and a Master of Economics and a PhD in Political Thought at the LSE. When a member of the Intelligence Department of the Bank of Spain he directed the History Division specialising in monetary history.

He belongs to the Board of the Spanish think tank “Civismo”, to the Academic Advisory Board of the IEA in London; is a member of the Liberales Institut Zürich and of the European Centre of Austrian Economics at Liechtenstein; and in the US, he is an Adjunct Scholar of the Cato Institute. He also is an academician of the Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas of Spain. Every month he publishes a featured column at the Liberty Fund “Econlib” site. His latest papers in English are, among others, “Happiness not within the Government’s remit” in The Pursuit of Happiness; and “Market solutions for the orderly suspension of a euro member” in The Euro – the Beginning, the Middle … and the End?