Danny LeRoy (University of Lethbridge)
Danny Le Roy is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Lethbridge and Senior Fellow with the Fraser Institute. He received his B.A. (Honours) in Economics from Carleton University and his MSc and PhD in Agricultural Economics and Business in from the University of Guelph. Danny was Chair of the Economics Department at the University of Lethbridge form 2011-14 and has served as the coordinator of the Agricultural Studies Program since 2010. Danny’s research focusses on the production, marketing and trade of agricultural commodities. He is particularly interested in identifying, delineating and quantifying the effects of interventionism. He has been nominated twice for the Distinguished Teaching Award at the University of Lethbridge and has received the Agricultural Students Association Distinguished Teaching Award on two occasions.
Brian Kogelmann (Perdue University)
Brian Kogelmann is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at Purdue University and an Affiliated Fellow at the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor in the John Chambers College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University and an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he founded the major in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Kogelmann completed his PhD at the University of Arizona and his B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science at University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of two books and more than 30 peer-reviewed journal articles. His research focuses on the intersection of ethics and political economy.
Brandon Turner (Clemson University)
Brandon Turner is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Clemson University. He has been a Visiting Fellow at American University and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Wake Forest University. Turner earned a B.A. in Political Science, Philosophy, and History from Miami University of Ohio (2004) and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2008). Turner’s research interests include the history of modern political thought, particularly British liberal thought, as well as theories of republicanism. He has written on Mandeville, Hobbes, Tocqueville, and Marx, among others. His articles and reviews have appeared in Political Theory, Polity, the Review of Politics, and Perspectives on Political Science.
Jacob T. Levy (McGill University)
Jacob Levy is Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory and the coordinator of McGill’s Research Group on Constitutional Studies and was the founding director of McGill’s Yan P. Lin Centre for the Study of Freedom and Global Orders in the Ancient and Modern Worlds. He is the author of The Multiculturalism of Fear and Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom. He is a Distinguished Fellow with Institute for Humane Studies, a Templeton Adam Smith Tercentenary Fellow of the University of Glasgow, and a Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from Brown University, an M.A. and Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University, and an LL.M. from the University of Chicago Law School. He serves on the editorial board of The American Political Science Review and Political Studies. From 2021-2024 he served as Chair of the Political Science Department at McGill.
Moin Yahya (University of Alberta)
Moin Yahya is a Professor at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Toronto and a J.D. (Summa Cum Laude) from the Antonin Scalia Law School (George Mason University). His research interests include law and economics, with a particular focus on utilities and securities regulation. Before attending law school, Professor Yahya was employed with Industry Canada’s Competition Bureau, where he worked on various merger and civil non-merger issues. He has also been a member of the Alberta Utilities Commission and the Selection Advisory Board of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada.