XX. Gottfried von Haberler Conference
Guest Speakers: Kristian Niemietz

Kristian Niemietz a native of Germany, studied Economics at the Humboldt University in Berlin and the University of Salamanca (Spain), graduating in 2007 as Diplom-Volkswirt (MSc in Economics) and completed his PhD in Political Economy at King’s College London in 2013. During his studies, he interned at the Central Bank of Bolivia (2004), the National Statistics Office of Paraguay (2005), and at the IEA (2006) in London. Currently Niemietz is the Editorial Director and Head of Political Economy at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) in London.

Niemietz previously worked as a Research Fellow at the Berlin-based Institute for Free Enterprise (IUF), and taught economics at King’s College London during his postgraduate studies. In addition to many contributions to books, he is the author of several works, among them his two seminal books on poverty,  A New Understanding of Poverty (2011) and Redefining the Poverty Debate (2012). In 2016 he published his Universal Healthcare Without The NHS (2016) and his acclaimed Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies (2019) and most recently, in 2024 his Imperial Measurement: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Western Colonialism appeared in London.