Axel Kaiser
Axel Kaiser Barents von Hohenhagen is a Chilean-German lawyer, Master in Investments, Commerce, and Arbitration, Master of Arts, and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Heidelberg (Germany). He is the co-founder and president of the Foundation for Progress in Chile, one of the most influential free-market think tanks in Latin America. He is a senior fellow at the Archbridge Institute in Washington, D.C. He was the director of the Friedrich Hayek Chair at Adolfo Ibáñez University from 2016 to 2024 and has been a Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has won several international prizes for his writings, such as the Hayek Essay Contest from the Mont Pelerin Society, Caminos de la Libertad in Mexico, and Vocies of Freedom from the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. His opinions have been published in international media such as The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Quillette, Forbes.com, Newsweek, The Washington Examiner, New York Post, among others. He is an international lecturer and a best-selling author. His book "The Street Economist" became the most sold economics book in the Spanish-speaking world in the last twenty years, playing an important role in Argentina’s current free-market movement. A 2021 study published by the Johns Hopkins University Institute for Applied Economics placed Axel Kaiser in third place among the influencers on economic matters with the greatest global impact in Latin America, Spain, and the United States on Twitter, after Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman and Argentine President Javier Milei.
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