Axel Kaiser
Senior Researcher
Axel Kaiser Barents von Hohenhagen is a Chilean-German lawyer, Director of the Friedrich Hayek Chair at San Sebastian University in Santiago de Chile, and a Senior Fellow at the Archbridge Institute in Washington. He is also the co-founder and president of the Foundation for Progress, one of the most influential free-market think tanks in Latin America.
Kaiser has been a Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and is a best-selling author recognized with several international prizes, including the Hayek Essay Contest of the Mont Pelerin Society. He has been highlighted among the ten most admired intellectuals in Chile by La Segunda. His commentary appears regularly in Diario Financiero and El Mercurio, and his work has been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Quillette, Forbes.com, La Nación (Argentina), El País (Uruguay), and El Mundo (Spain), among others.
An international lecturer and author of several best-selling books, Kaiser was ranked third in a 2021 Johns Hopkins University study of the most globally impactful economic influencers on Twitter across Latin America, Spain, and the United States.
Kaiser holds a Master’s in Investments, Commerce, and Arbitration, a Master of Arts, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Heidelberg (Germany).