Gabriel Calzada is president of Universidad Francisco Marroquin, the pioneering free-market university founded in 1971 in Guatemala. He is past president of the Association of Private Enterprise Education and a board member of the Mont Pelerin Society and the Rising Tide Foundation. He has also served on the advisory board of the John Templeton Foundation and is currently a member of the advisory board of Students for Liberty. In his native Spain, he was the founding president of the Juan de Mariana Institute, a think tank known for the impact of its innovative research. Calzada’s 2009 study on the negative impact of the Spanish government’s promotion of “green jobs” along with his testimony before the US Congress helped bury that initiative in the United States. He has served as a professor of economics at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, where he earned his PhD in economics, and IE University, both in Spain. Gabriel specializes in environmental and energy economics, the Austrian business cycle, and defense economics.

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