Free Market Road Show 2014 (Bucharest) - Panel 1 - Centralization vs. Deregulation: Is more Brussels the key to prosperity or does subsidiarity provide the better path? Chair: Radu ŞIMANDAN (Republican Institute, Romania) Keynote: Richard RAHN (Senior Fellow Cato Institute, Chairman of the Institute for Global Economic Growth) Panelists: Barbara KOLM (Director, Austrian Economics Center), Corneliu BERARI (Republican Institute, Romania), Krassen STANCHEV (Chairman, Market Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria) Richard W. Rahn Richard W. Rahn is a senior fellow of the Cato Institute, the Chairman of the Institute for Global Economic Growth, and a syndicated economic columnist. He serves on the editorial board of the Cayman Financial Review. Previously, Dr. Rahn was a member of the Board of the Cayman Island Monetary Authority and Vice President and Chief Economist of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. He was the founder of the Novecon companies, including Sterling Semiconductor. Dr. Rahn testified before the U.S. Congress on economic issues more than seventy-five times, and is a frequent commentator on radio and TV. He served as an economic advisor to numerous high-level government officials around the world, including former President George H.W. Bush, and as the co-chairman of the Bulgarian Economic Growth and Transition Project. He holds Ph.D. from Columbia University, and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws by Pepperdine University. Barbara Kolm President of the Friedrich A. v. Hayek Institute in Vienna, Austria and Director of the Austrian Economics Center. Being a worldwide networker she uses these abilities to promote free market policies; in addition she is a frequent speaker on public policy related issues, especially on deregulation and competition topics, the Future of Europe and Austrian Economics. Barbara Kolm is an Associate Professor of Austrian Economics at the University of Donja Gorica, Montenegro and a member of the Board of Business Consultants of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber and a Member of the Mont Pélerin Society. She is President of the European Center for Economic Growth. Corneliu Dan Berari Vicepresident -- The New Republic Party, Policy Expert at the Republican Institute He has studied philosophy, political science and international relations at West University of Timișoara, University of Manchester (UK), Central European University (HU) and Ludwig Maximilians University (DE). After a short spell as visiting lecturer at West University of Timișoara, he has worked for the Regional Development Agency West Romania in the period 2004-2013 where, as Head of Office for the Projects and International Relations, he was in charge with developing and implementing various EU-funded projects. An active member of the New Republic Movement since its early stages, at the last convention of the New Republic Party he was elected vice-president of this newly established liberal-conservative party in Romania. He coordinates the Department of Public Policies and has brought significant contribution to the main doctrinal documents of the party. Krassen Stanchev is a philosopher and economist. He is head of the EDMC Workforce Team, CEO of KC 2 Ltd. (www.kc-2.org) and assistant professor at Sofia University. He is also Board Chairman, Founder and former Executive Director of IME (www.ime.bg) the first Bulgaria's independent and free market think thank (1993), former member and committee chairman of the Constitutional Assembly (1990 -- 1991), one of the most quoted Bulgarian observers, best country analyst award for 1996 by Euromoney, as well as laureate of Bulgaria Government Prize -- 2002, Templeton -- 2006 -- as IME Director, and Georgi Vassilev's Fund for Contribution on the Spirit of Liberty -- 2006. He was a principle drafter of a number of reforms from central planning to market economy and is one of the leaders of those reforms. His expertise is in economic and regulatory policies conducive to private sector growth in New Europe and Former Soviet Union, and in relation between post -- Communist economies and countries, and their position vis-a-vis EU and US. Krassen Stanchev leads, led or was involved in initiatives related to market oriented and democratic reforms in other countries, Balkans and Former Soviet Union. Since end-1990s he worked in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgizstan and Tajikistan), Caucasus (Armenia and Georgia), and Russia. Website: www.institutulrepublican.ro Facebook: www.facebook.com/InstitutulRepublican Email: office@institutulrepublican.ro

• published: 29 Mar 2014
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