Johan Norberg

Johan Norberg is a Swedish author, lecturer, and documentary filmmaker who focuses on globalization, human progress, and intellectual history. He is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington D.C. and the European Centre for International Political Economy in Brussels. He received his M. A. in the History of Ideas from the University of Stockholm.

He has written books on a broad range of topics, including global economics and popular science. His "In Defense of Global Capitalism" has been published in more than 25 countries. His other books include "Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future" and "Open: The Story of Human Progress." Both books were named by The Economist as a book of the year in 2016 and 2020 respectively. His latest book is "The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World."

Norberg regularly hosts documentaries on development and economics for American public television, including "Free or Equal?," "Economic Freedom in Action," "Power to the People," and "The Real Adam Smith."

For his work, Norberg has received several awards, including the Distinguished Sir Antony Fisher Memorial Award from the Atlas Foundation, the Walter Judd Freedom Award, the Julian Simon Memorial Award, and the gold medal from the German Hayek Stiftung, that year shared with Margaret Thatcher.