Axel Kaiser is a Chilean -German lawyer with a Master in Investment, Commerce and Arbitration a Master in American Studies and a Doctor of Philosophie magna cum laude from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He is the executive director and co-founder of the Foundation for Progress, one of the most influential classical liberal think tanks in Latin America. Since 2016 he also holds the Friedrich von Hayek Chair at the Adolfo Ibáñez University in Santiago de Chile. He is the author of several books, including The misery of interventionism: 1929-2008, The fatal ignorance, The Pope and capitalism and the best sellers, The tyranny of equality and The populist deception. His writings have won several international prizes from organizations such as The Cato Institute, the Mont Pelerin Society and the University of Heidelberg. He was distinguished as one of the most successful young people in Chile by Diario Financiero (2008) and one of the 100 young leaders of the country (2011) by El Mercurio and Adolfo Ibañez University. Mister Kaiser is an international lecturer as well as an opinion columnist for the newspapers El Mercurio and Diario Financiero de Chile. His opinions have also been published by Forbes.com, The Wall Street Journal, El Mundo, La Nación de Argentina, El País de Uruguay among other media outlets.
