Libertarian International 2008 Spring Conference, Warsaw - 28-29 June

Josie Appleton is convenor of the Manifesto Club. She wrote the Manifesto Club reports, 'The Case Against Vetting', 'How the Child Protection Industry Stole Christmas', and 'Hobby Clubs'. She is a journalist and writer based in London. She writes regularly for spiked, and has contributed to a number of publications, including the Spectator, The Times, Times Literary Supplement and Daily Express.

Mikołaj Barczentewicz studies law and philosophy in the College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in the Humanities (College MISH) at the University of Warsaw. Currently, he is the president of the Austrian School of Economics Society at the University of Warsaw and works with polish Mises Institute. Mikołaj is a laureate of 2006 The Students' Olympiad on European Union: “Economic and Monetary Union”. He blogs about law, economics and philosophy (in Polish): http://www.barczentewicz.com.

Mikołaj is also blogging about antitrust and competition law (in English): Antitrust in Poland. He is a professional web developer and has been involved in projects for many clients from all over the world. More information in his LinkedIn profile.

Stefan Blankertz, author of many books and articles: Tolstoy's Contribution to the Theory and Practice of Anarchist Education; Anarchism: Declaring War on the State; Critical Pragmatism: The Sociology of Paul Goodman; The New Social Thinking; The Politics of the New Tolerance; Legitimacy and Praxis: Public Education as a Pedagogical, Social and Ethical Problems; The State As Temptation: On Fascism and Pedagogy in Anarchism and Learning.

Pierre-Louis Boitel is a scholar and researcher with the Molinari Economic Institute in Paris.

Nick Cowen is a researcher and administrator in Civitas, London.

Witold Falkowski is the President of the Polish Mises Institute, he is also a columnist, entrepreneur, english teacher and translator of many libertarian books.

Jacques de Guenin, is a graduate of the Ecole de Mines in Paris and holds a Master of Science from the University of Berkeley (California). He worked for 22 years in the oil industry (Exxon), then for 12 years in the car industry (PSA Peugeot-Citroën) where he was a director before his retirement in 1993. He has lived, worked, or traveled in fifty or so countries, but he has always remained close to his village of Saint-Loubouer, in Les Landes region. He was mayor from 1995 to 2001. He has stood as a (liberal) candidate in parliamentary elections: against Henri Emmanuelli in 1993, then against Joël Gohyeinex in 1998.

Having been taught by two winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics, he has himself published various works in this discipline. His favorite author is the great economist and humanist Frédéric Bastiat who came from Les Landes and about whom he has written numerous articles and given many talks. In 1980 he founded in Les Landes Le Cercle Frédéric Bastiat – which he still runs. He is currently president that organization.

In 2001 Jaques was host for ISIL's world confernce in Dax, France.

Michael Jennings has a Ph.D. in fluid mechanics from Cambridge University.

Dr Dariusz Juruś, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Silesia - Cieszyn.

Dr. Yuri N. Maltsev is the Professor of Economics at Carthage College (Kenosha, Wisconsin). He held, over a fifteen-year period, various teaching and research positions in Moscow, Russia. Before coming to the U.S. in 1989, he was a member of a senior team of Soviet economists that worked on President Gorbachev's reforms package of perestroika. Before coming to Carthage in 1991, he was a Senator William Jennings Peace Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., a research institution sponsored by the United States Congress.

Dr. Maltsev has appeared on PBS Newshour, C-Span, CNN, Financial Network News, Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, National Public Radio and more.

Dr. Maltsev serves as a member of the advisory boards of the Foundation for Economic Education in Irvington-On-Hudson, New York; Heartland Institute in Chicago; and the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics published by Transaction Periodicals, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey. He is listed in The Guide to Public Policy Experts (1991 to present).

Christian Michel is the former owner of one of Europe's largest trust and corporate service companies and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Libertarian International and of the Committee of the Libertarian Alliance. He is also the author such books as La Liberte, Deux ou Trois Choses Que Je Sais D'elle and of many monographs for the Libertarian Alliance, including Restitution: Justice in a Stateless Society, The Class Struggle Is Not Over, Capitalism and the Wisdom of the Elders, and The End of the Warrior. A French national, he currently lives in London. His personal website is: http://www.liberalia.com

François-René Rideau, Ph.D. student, Computer Software Architect and IT Security Consultant. Founder of the TUNES project for a free reflective computing system, author of many libertarian essays and articles. His blog (link).

Josef Šíma, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Institutional Economics, University of Economics, Prague. Dr Šíma is also Editorial Director of Liberální Institut, Prague.

Edward Stringham is an associate professor of economics at San Jose State University, President of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, Editor of the Journal of Private Enterprise, editor of two books, and author of two dozen articles in refereed journals including the Journal of Institutional & Theoretical Economics, Quarterly Review of Economics & Finance, and Journal of Labor Research.

Stringham has been discussed on more than 100 broadcast stations including CBS, CNBC, CNN, Fox, Headline News, NPR, and MTV and in hundreds of newspapers worldwide including 14 of the 20 highest circulating newspapers in the United States and the highest circulating English language newspaper in the world. His work has been the subject of discussion by Entertainment Tonight's Leeza Gibbons and inspired a cartoon by New York Times Syndicated Political Cartoonist Jeff Danziger.

Stringham earned his Ph.D. from George Mason University in 2002, and has won the Templeton Culture of Enteprise Best Article Award, Paper of the Year Award from the Association of Private Enterprise, Best Article Award from the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, Second Place in the Independent Institute Garvey Contest, and Distinguished Young Scholar Award from the Liberalni Institut and the Prague School of Economics.