Bastiat Prize Judges

2010 Judges

Scott Banister (ironport.com)

Brian Carney (Wall Street Journal, 2003 Bastiat Prize winner)

Clive Crook (Financial Times/National Journal)

Hon. Douglas Ginsburg (US Court of Appeals)

Terence Kealey (University of Buckingham)

Matt Ridley (Science Author)

Amity Shlaes (Bloomberg, 2002 Bastiat Prize winner)

John Stossel (Fox News / Fox Business Network, 2004 runner-up)

Amit Varma (indiauncut.com and 2007 Bastiat Prize winner) 

Past Judges - 2002-2009

Dora de Ampuero, Director, Instituto Ecuatoriano de Economia Politica
Anne Applebaum, Washington Post, USA
George Ayittey, Director, Free Africa Foundation, USA
Robert L. Bartley, late Editor Emeritus of The Wall Street Journal
James Buchanan Jr, 1986 Nobel Laureate in Economics, USA
Edward H. Crane III, President of the Cato Institute, USA
Bibek Debroy (International Management Institute, India)
Esther Dyson (23andme.com)
Milton Friedman, late 1976 Nobel Laureate in Economics, USA
Judge Douglas Ginsburg, US Court of Appeals, DC Circuit, USA
Mats Johanssen, Editor, Svenska Dagbladet, Sweden
Lord Kalms of Edgware, House of Lords and former Chairman of Dixons Group Plc, UK
William Keyes, Fund for American Studies, USA
Wolfgang Kasper, Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of New South Wales,
Australia
Jo Ann Kwong, Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Fairfax, Virginia
Lord Lawson of Blaby, House of Lords and former Chancellor of the Exchequer, UK
Barun Mitra, Liberty Institute, New Delhi, India
Mike Moore, former Director General, World Trade Organization, Geneva,
Switzerland
Alan Oxley, Director, International Trade Strategies, Melbourne, Australia
Sally Pipes, Director, Pacific Research Institute, USA
Hon. Ruth Richardson, former Finance Minister of New Zealand
Jane Shaw, Political Economy Research Center, USA
Hernando de Soto, Director of Instituto Libertad y Desarrollo, Peru, and author of
The Mystery of Capital
Baroness Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister, UK
Jimmy Wales (wikia.com)