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Register today for MPS INDY 2026
The Westin, Indianapolis
11th – 15th October 2026

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MEET OUR PRESTIGIOUS
Discussion Leaders
Sarah Skwire
Senior Program Officer
Liberty Fund
Richard Reinsch
Editor-in-Chief
Civitas Institute at The University of Texas at Austin
Michael Munger
Professor
Duke University
Leonidas Montes
President
Centro de Estudios Públicos
Allen Mendenhall
Senior Advisor, Capital Markets Initiative; Research Fellow, Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies
The Heritage Foundation
Rachel Lomasky
Head of AI
Delphos Labs
Dominique Lazanski
Director
Last Press Label
Jessica Hooten Wilson
Fletcher Jones Endowed Chair
Pepperdine University
Roberta Herzberg
Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Andrew Graham
Vice President for Philosophy & Education
Alliance Defending Freedom
Bruce Caldwell
Director Emeritus, Center for the History of Political Economy
Duke University
Jay Bruce
Senior Pastor
Carriage Lane Presbyterian Church
Leonidas Zelmanovitz
Senior Fellow
Liberty Fund, Inc.
Peter Mentzel
Senior Fellow
Liberty Fund
Douglas Carswell
President & CEO
Mississippi Center for Public Policy
MODERATORS
Mary Anastasia O'Grady
Board Member
Liberty Fund
Sarah Skwire
Senior Program Officer
Liberty Fund
Parth Shah
Centre for Civil Society
Roberto Salinas Leon
Director of International Affairs
Universidad de la Libertad
Richard Reinsch
Editor-in-Chief
Civitas Institute at The University of Texas at Austin
Benjamin Powell
Texas Tech University
Michael Munger
Professor
Duke University
Leonidas Montes
President
Centro de Estudios Públicos
Allen Mendenhall
Senior Advisor, Capital Markets Initiative; Research Fellow, Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies
The Heritage Foundation
Vladimir Maciel
Head
Mackenzie Center for Economic Freedom
Dominique Lazanski
Director
Last Press Label
Martin Krause
Universidad del CEMA
Stephen R.C. Hicks
Professor
Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship
Roberta Herzberg
Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Samuel Gregg
President
American Institute for Economic Research
Andrew Graham
Vice President for Philosophy & Education
Alliance Defending Freedom
Debbi Gibbs
CEO
Gibbs Amphibians
Pierre Garello
Aix-Marseille Université
Marsha Familaro Enright
President
Reliance College Fund
Doug Den Uyl
Resident Scholar
Liberty Fund
Gabriel Calzada Alvarez
President
Universidad de las Hespérides
Bruce Caldwell
Director Emeritus, Center for the History of Political Economy
Duke University
Jay Bruce
Senior Pastor
Carriage Lane Presbyterian Church
Spencer Klavan
Associate Editor, Claremont Review of Books
Claremont Institute
Eric Crampton
The New Zealand Initiative
Mitch Daniels
Distinguished Scholar and Senior Advisor
Liberty Fund
Panelists
David Womersley
Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature
University of Oxford
Edwin van de Haar
Independent Scholar
Ryan Streeter
Civitas Institute at The University of Texas at Austin
Leigh Stein
Novelist
Hannah Spahn
Privatdozentin
Freie Universität Berlin
Craig Smith
Professor of History of Political Thought
University of Glasgow
Stephanie Slade
Senior Editor
Reason
Adam Simon
President & CCO
Flying Eye Pictures
Barry Shain
Professor
Colgate University
Tony Sewell
Peer
House of Lords
Steven Sarson
Professor of American Civilisation
Université Jean Moulin Lyon
Avik Roy
Co-Founder & Chairman
The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity
Kat Rosenfield
Writer
John Pinheiro
Director of Research and Publications
Acton Institute
Sandra Peart
Dean and Professor
University of Richmond
Catherine Pakaluk
Executive Director of The James Cardinal Gibbons Institute for Human Ecology
The Catholic University of America
Maria Pia Paganelli
Professor
Trinity University
James Otteson
John T. Ryan Jr. Professor of Business Ethics
University of Notre Dame
Thomas Mulligan
Visiting Scholar
RAND Corporation
Leonidas Montes
President
Centro de Estudios Públicos
Matthew Mohlman
President
Monument Ventures
Emilie Mitran
Associate Professor
University of Toulon
Deirdre McCloskey
Senior Fellow and Isaiah Berlin Chair of Liberal Thought
Cato Institute
Malia Marks
PhD Candidate
University of Cambridge
Phillip Magness
Senior Fellow and the David J. Theroux Chair in Political Economy
Independent Institute
Marco Magnani
Professor of International Economics
Luiss Guido Carli University and Università Cattolica
Adam MacLeod
Professor of Law and Katherine A. Ryan Chair for Global Law
St. Mary's University
Susan Love Brown
Professor Emerita
Florida Atlantic University
Rachel Lomasky
Head of AI
Delphos Labs
Dominique Lazanski
Director
Last Press Label
Matthew Kroenig
Professor
Georgetown University
Randall Holcombe
Florida State University
Felix Hosse
PushToLeave
Jeremy Horpedahl
Associate Professor of Economics
University of Central Arkansas
Jessica Hooten Wilson
Fletcher Jones Endowed Chair
Pepperdine University
Daniel Hannan
President
Institute for Free Trade
William Anthony Hay
Professor and Associate Director for Public Programs
School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University
Aaron Gwyn
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Daniel Gullotta
Assistant Professor
Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture, and Society at The Ohio State University
Samuel Gregg
President
American Institute for Economic Research
Hannes Gissurarson
Professor Emeritus
University of Iceland
Adam Dixon
Adam Smith Chair
Adam Smith's Panmure House
Christa Dierksheide
Professor
University of Virginia
Doug Den Uyl
Resident Scholar
Liberty Fund
Steve Davies
Senior Education Fellow
Institute of Economic Affairs
Furman Daniel
Associate Professor
Concordia University
Helen Dale
Senior Writer, Law & Liberty
Liberty Fund
Geoff Cubitt
StrmMusic
Timothy Congdon
Chair
Institute of International Monetary Research at University of Buckingham
Henry C. Clark
Senior Lecturer and Program Coordinator, Political Economy Project
Dartmouth College
Jane Calvert
Founding Director and Chief Editor
John Dickinson Writings Project
Kevin Brookes
Director
Génération Libre
Eamonn Butler
Director
The Adam Smith Institute
Donald J. Boudreaux
Professor of Economics
George Mason University
Hernan Bonilla
President
Center for Development Studies
Bradley Birzer
Russell Amos Kirk Chair in American Studies, Professor of History
Hillsdale College
Matt Beech
Director of the Centre for British Politics, University of Hull & IES Senior Fellow, UC Berkeley
University of Hull & University of California, Berkeley
David Bahnsen
Founder, Managing Partner, CIO
The Bahnsen Group
James Allan
Garrick Professor of Law
University of Queensland
Martin Gurri
Visiting Fellow
Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Larry Arnn
President
Hillsdale College
Wilfred McClay
Professor
Hillsdale College
Mark Skousen
Presidential Scholar
Chapman University
Aaron MacLean
CBS News National Security Analyst and Host of the School of War Podcast
CBS News/Free Press
Rodrigo Vergara
Senior Economist
Centro de Estudios Públicos
Chris Atkins
Chief Operating Officer
INvestEd
Julia Cartwright
Senior Research Fellow in Law and Economics
American Institute for Economic Research
Veronique de Rugy
George Gibbs Chair of Political Economy and Senior Research Fellow
Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Javier Fernández-Lasquetty
Vicepresident of Institutional Relations
Fundación Internacional para la Libertad
Bart Wilson
Professor of Economics and Law
Chapman University
Eric Cook
President, CEO
Society for Classical Learning
Ernesto Silva
Provost
Universidad del Desarrollo
George Will
Syndicated Columnist
Washington Post
