Ian Vasquez

Ian Vásquez is vice president for international studies at the Cato Institute and director of its Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity and coauthor of the Human Freedom Index. Ian has a weekly columnist at El Comercio (Peru), and his articles have appeared in newspapers throughout the United States and Latin America. He has appeared on CNBC, NBC, C‑SPAN, CNN, Telemundo, Univision, and Canadian television, as well as NPR and Voice of America, discussing foreign policy and development issues. He is the editor of Global Fortune: The Stumble and Rise of World Capitalism, and coeditor of Perpetuating Poverty: The World Bank, the IMF, and the Developing World and has testified numerous times before Congress on economic development issues. Ian received his bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University and his master’s degree from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He has been a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a member of the Mont Pèlerin Society.