Schedule

MPS Program Schedule

  • 22 September
  • 23 September
  • 24 September
  • 25 September
  • 26 September

06:00 -07:00
Kundalini Meditation

Begin your day with a rejuvenating Kundalini Meditation Session led by an experienced trainer at the hotel. Kundalini Meditation is a powerful practice designed to awaken the dormant spiritual energy within each of us, known as Kundalini. Through a combination of breathing techniques, chanting, and mindful movements, this meditation helps to balance the mind and body, leading to increased awareness and spiritual growth.

08:00-10:00
Breakfast

10:30-12:30
Visit Qutub Minar

Qutub Minar is one of Delhi's most iconic landmarks and a UNESCO World Heritage site. Standing at 73 meters tall, this impressive minaret was constructed in the early 13th century by Qutub-ud-din Aibak, the founder of the Delhi Sultanate
Monuments: Qutub Minar, Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque, Iron Pillar of Delhi, Tomb of Adham Khan, and Iltutmish, etc.

12:40-14:10
Visit Mehrauli Archaeological Park

Mehrauli Archaeological Park is a fascinating historical site spanning over 200 acres, notable for its rich collection of ruins and historical structures. Monuments: Madhi Masjid, Khirki Masjid, Balban’s Tomb etc.

14:40:15:40
Lunch

16:00-15:00
Session with Illusionist

Prepare to be amazed with a special Session with Illusionist to enjoy an enchanting performance at the hotel This captivating performance will leave you spellbound as the illusionist seamlessly blends magic, psychology, and storytelling to create unforgettable illusions. From mind-bending tricks to astonishing sleight of hand, every act is designed to surprise and amaze.

06:30 – 07:30
Yoga Session

Begin your day with a refreshing Yoga Session at the hotel (open to everyone)Rejuvenate your body and mind with a calming yoga session led by an experienced instructor. This session is designed to help you unwind and recharge, combining breathing exercises, gentle stretches, and meditation techniques.

07:30 – 09:30
Breakfast

10:00 – 11:00
Cooking Workshop

Discover the rich and diverse flavors of Indian cuisine in this interactive cooking workshop. Led by a skilled chef, you will learn to prepare traditional Indian dishes using authentic spices and fresh ingredients. Whether you're a novice or a seasoned cook, this workshop offers a delightful opportunity to explore new culinary skills and savor the vibrant tastes of India.

12:30 – 13:30
Lunch

14:00 – 18:30
Visit Dilli Haat

We'll depart from the Andaz Hotel for a visit to Dilli Haat, a vibrant open-air market and cultural hub in the heart of Delhi. Dilli Haat is located in the heart of Delhi, is a vibrant open-air market and cultural center. It offers a unique blend of traditional Indian crafts, foods, and performances. Highlights: Indian Handicraft Stalls, local cuisine Food Stalls, Cultural Performances, Exhibitions and Workshops, Ethnic Handloom and Textile Products

10:00 – 12:30
Magic of Clay

Head to an immersive Clay Workshop. Reaching the Workshop - Magic of Clay Unleash your creativity as you dive into the basics of ceramic sculpture, hand-building, and wheel throwing This hands-on session allows you to mold, shape, and transform clay into unique pieces of art, exploring various textures and forms.

13:00 – 14:30
Lunch Time

15:00 – 17:30
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art

Depart from Andaz Hotel for a cultural journey to the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art. The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), is India's first private museum dedicated to contemporary and modern art. The museum showcases a diverse range of Indian art, including paintings, sculptures, and multimedia installations, offering visitors a dynamic experience that celebrates both traditional and contemporary art forms. With its engaging exhibitions and educational programs, KNMA is a vibrant space that fosters creativity, dialogue, and appreciation for the arts.
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Excursions

AGRA FULL DAY TOUR ITINERARY

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DELHI FULL DAY TOUR ITINERARY

For further information regarding the Excursions included with the program, please contact us  transportation@mpsnewdelhi.org

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9:00-10:30

11:00-12:30

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12:45-13:50

14:00-15:00

15:30-17:00

15:30-17:00

15:30-17:00

17:00-18:00

19:00 onwards

19:00 onwards

19:00 onwards

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State & the Citizen

Culture, Religion & Liberty

How Markets Made India a Cricket Superpower

Lunch [Punctuation Talk]

Book Cafe [Breakout Sessions: Meet the Author]

Liberal Heroes

Hayek Essay Contest Winner Presentations

Emerging Monetary and Contract Technologies

Hayek’s Nobel at 50

Evening Reception

New MPS President’s Address

Keynote Address and Closing Dinner

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Experience Agra: Heritage, History, and Heart

07:00 : Pick up from Delhi

Your tour begins early in the morning with a pick-up from your hotel or specified location in Delhi. You'll embark on a scenic drive to Agra, enjoying the changing landscapes along the way. (Packed Breakfast will be provided during the journey)

10:00 : Visit the Taj Mahal

Arrive in Agra and head straight to the iconic Taj Mahal, one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Explore this breathtaking monument built by Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal. Spend approximately 2 hours admiring the exquisite marble architecture and learning about its fascinating history.

12:30 : Agra Fort

Next, visit the majestic Agra Fort, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Built by Emperor Akbar, this red sandstone fort houses impressive palaces, mosques, and audience halls. Explore its fascinating history and architecture for about 1.5 hours.

14:00 : Lunch

Enjoy a delicious lunch at a local restaurant, sampling authentic Mughlai cuisine known for its rich flavors and aromatic spices.

15:00 : Explore Local Markets/ Free Time

After lunch, take a stroll through the vibrant local markets of Agra. Experience the city's true essence as you shop for souvenirs, handicrafts, marble artifacts, and more. Engage with local artisans and soak in the lively atmosphere, depending on t interest, you may have some free time to explore more of Agra independently.

17:30 : Free Time / Optional Activities

Enjoy a delicious lunch at a local restaurant, sampling authentic Mughlai cuisine known for its rich flavors and aromatic spices.

18:00 : Departure to Delhi

Bid farewell to Agra and begin your journey back to Delhi.

21:00 : Drop off at Hotel Andaz

Arrive back in Delhi and get dropped off at your hotel or preferred location, concluding your memorable day trip to Agra.

Journey through Delhi's Rich Mosaic of Cultures.

10:00 : Pickup from Hotel

Transfer from Hotel in comfortable air-conditioned vehicle to National Museum.

10:45 : Visit National Museum

Visit National Museum is one of largest museum in India. Showcase articles ranging from pre-historic era to modern works of art.

13:10 : Lunch

Transfer from National Museum to Connaught Place.

14:00 : Connaught Place

Explore the vibrant markets of Connaught Place.

16:00 : Transfer to Akshardham Temple

Transfer from Connaught Place to Akshar Dham Temple

16:25 - Akshardham Temple

Transfer to Akshar Dham Temple, A Hindu house of worship, and a spiritual and cultural campus dedicated to devotion, learning and harmony. Exhibitions, Thematic Gardens.

19:45 : Light and music show

Evening Water show with lights and music

20:30 : Return to Hotel

Transfer back to Andaz Delhi. End of tour
Lant Pritchett
Visiting Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science


Lant Pritchett is a development economist from Idaho. After graduating from BYU with a BS in Economics in 1983 he attended MIT and received his PhD in 1988. He worked for the World Bank from 1988 to 2007, including living in Indonesia from 1998 to 2000 and in India from 2004 to 2007. He also taught at the Harvard Kennedy School from 2000 to 2004 and from 2007 to 2018.He was the the Research Director of the RISE Programme at Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government from 2018 to 2023. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the School of Public Policy at London School of Economics and is the co-founder and Research Director of LaMP (Labor Mobility Partnerships).
He has published six books, been part of the team of two World Development Reports (1994 and 2004), and written over a hundred journal articles, book chapters, and working papers with over fifty different co-authors. He has written on a range of development issues including: economic growth, education, labor mobility, state capability, health, development assistance, social capital, population, international trade, safety net programs and methods of project evaluation. He was born in Utah, raised in Idaho and has lived in five countries, worked in dozens, and has visited more countries than he is years old. He has been happily married to Diane Tueller Pritchett since 1981 and has three children and four grandchildren.
Bryan Caplan
Bryan Caplan
Professor, George Mason University

Bryan Caplan is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University and New York Times Bestselling author.

He has written The Myth of the Rational Voter, named "the best political book of the year" by the New York Times; Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids; The Case Against Education; Open Borders (co-authored with SMBC's Zach Weinersmith); Labor Econ Versus the World; How Evil Are Politicians?; Don't Be a Feminist; Voters as Mad Scientists; and You Will Not Stampede Me. His next book, Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing, will be published by the Cato Institute in April 2024.
Bryan is also editor and chief writer for Bet On It, the blog hosted by the Salem Center for Policy at the University of Texas. He has published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, TIME, Newsweek, Atlantic, American Economic Review, Economic Journal, Journal of Law and Economics, and Intelligence, blogged for EconLog from 2005-2022, and appeared on ABC, BBC, Fox News, MSNBC, and C-SPAN.
Shruti Rajagopalan
Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center, and Fellow, Classical Liberal Institute

is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where she leads the Indian Political Economy Program and Emergent Ventures India. She is a Fellow at the Classical Liberal Institute at NYU School of Law and an Innovation Fellow with Schmidt Futures.Before joining the Mercatus Center she was an Associate Professor of Economics at State University of New York, Purchase College. She earned her Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University. She has a BA (Hons) Economics and LL.B. from University of Delhi; and an LL.M. from the European Masters in Law and Economics Program at University of Hamburg, Ghent University, and University of Bologna.
Shruti’s broad area of interest is the economic analysis of comparative legal and political systems. Her research interests specifically include law and economics, public choice theory, and constitutional economics. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, law reviews, and books. She is also the host of the Ideas of India podcast. She currently writes a substack on Indian political economy and culture called Get Down and Shruti. She used to write a fortnightly column called The Impartial Spectator in Mint. She has also published opinion editorials on Indian political economy in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Real Clear Politics, Mint, The Hindu: Business Line, and The Indian Express.
Nimai Mehta
Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer, American University


Nimai Mehta is the Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, at American University. His area of research is on the quality and use of data under varying institutional contexts. Nimai has been the lead coordinator of a multidisciplinary effort at the university to employ data-science, economics, and machine-learning to improve data on missing and exploited children. He was previously the principal investigator for a UNICEF project on the quality of education data and reforms in Myanmar.
Mehta is presently collaborating with researchers in India to develop a numerical scale to assess, and rank, the content and quality of agricultural land laws across twenty main states. Prior to his appointment at the department, he was the Academic Director of the Economic Policy Program at Washington Semester, where his work focused on an empirical and institutional analysis of government failure. He also led the university’s policy programs in Asia and Europe. His work in Asia has included research on Hinduism and the caste system.

He has held teaching positions at the School of Economics, University of the Philippines, where he was a Research Fellow and Program Associate with the Center for Integrative and Development Studies. Prior positions include: Visiting Scholar at the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy in Fairfax, Virginia, and Adjunct Professor at George Mason University, Department of Economics. Mehta also serves on the Academic Council of the Indian School of Public Policy, New Delhi. He obtained his Masters in Applied Economics from Bombay University, and a Doctorate in Economics from George Mason University.
Aaron Ross Powel

Author
David Emanuel Andersson
Professor, National Sun Yat-sen University


David Emanuel Andersson is Professor of Management at National Sun Yat-sen University in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. He is the author or co-author of five books, including most recently The Future of the Post-industrial Society: Individualism, Creativity and Entrepreneurship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), as well as about 60 contributions to edited books and journals such as Environment and Planning A, Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, and Journal of Economic Geography. Professor Andersson holds a PhD in Regional Planning from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. He is a Fellow of the Center for Market Education in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and was the editor of the multidisciplinary journal Cosmos + Taxis: Studies in Emergent Order and Organization from 2013 to 2020.
Gurcharan Das
Author and former CEO, Procter & Gamble India


is an author, commentator, and public intellectual. He is best known for a much-acclaimed trilogy on a lifelong search for a flourishing life based on the classical Indian goals of life. India Unbound was the first, on artha or ‘material well-being,’ it offers a personal account of India’s economic rise and is available in 17 languages and filmed by the BBC— the Guardian called it 'a quiet earthquake.' The second, The Difficulty of Being Good, on dharma, 'moral well- being’, illuminates our day to day moral dilemmas, and ‘one of the best things I’ve read about contribution of great literature to ethical thought,’ according to the philosopher, Martha Nussbaum. Kama: The Riddle of Desire, on the third goal, teaches how to cherish desire in order to live a rich, flourishing life. His latest book, Another Sort of Freedom, is a memoir and a contemporary take on moksha, the fourth and final aim of life


He graduated in philosophy with honors from Harvard University, where he has been inducted into Phi Beta Kappa for ‘high attainments in liberal scholarship.’ He later attended Harvard Business School (AMP) where he is featured in four case studies. He was CEO of Procter & Gamble India and Managing Director, Procter & Gamble Worldwide (Health & Beauty, Strategic Planning) before he retired early to become a full-time writer. He writes a regular column for the Times of India and other Indian language papers, and contributes to Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and New York Times. He is a speaker to some of the world’s largest corporations. His other books include India Grows at Night: A liberal case for a strong state, which was on the FT’s best books for 2013; a novel, A Fine Family; a book of essays, The Elephant Paradigm, and an anthology, Three Plays. He has edited for Penguin a 15-volume economic and business history of India. He lives in Delhi with his wife.
Nandan Kamath
Co-Founder, Sports and Society Accelerator


Qualified to practice in India and California, Nandan specialises in sports and technology law, governance and regulation. He is Managing Trustee of GoSports Foundation and Co-Founder of Sports and Society Accelerator.
Nandan recently authored Boundary Lab, Penguin Viking, 2024, was the Co-Editor of Go! India’s Sporting Transformation, Penguin Random House, 2019, and, while a student, edited one of the first texts on Indian internet law - Law Relating to Computers, Internet and E-Commerce: A Guide to Cyberlaws and the Information Technology Act, 2000 – Universal Law Publishing Co, Delhi.

Nandan is a graduate of the National Law School of India University, the University of Oxford (on a Rhodes Scholarship) and Harvard Law School. He has represented and captained the Karnataka state junior teams in cricket.
Judy Shelton

is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute. Former Chairman of the National Endowment for Democracy and former U.S. Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, she has testified before the U.S. Senate Banking, Senate Foreign Relations, House Banking, House Foreign Affairs, and Joint Economic Committee. Shelton was a nominee for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve in 2020. Shelton has been consulted on international economic/financial issues by national security officials at the White House, U.S. Congress, and the Pentagon. She received a postdoctoral fellowship from the Hoover Institution at Stanford University as a National Fellow, and she became a Hoover Senior Research Fellow (1985–1995).
She is the author of The Coming Soviet Crash: Gorbachev’s Desperate Pursuit of Credit in Western Financial Markets (1989) and Money Meltdown: Restoring Order to the Global Currency System (1994). Her forthcoming book in 2024 is entitled Good as Gold: How to Unleash the Power of Sound Money. Shelton's popular articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Hill, and The Weekly Standard. She often provides commentary for CNBC and Fox Business on monetary and financial issues. Shelton was an economic advisor for the National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform chaired by Jack Kemp (1995–96). She was a founding member of the board of directors of Empower America and has also served on the board of directors for Hilton Hotels and Atlantic Coast Airlines. She also taught international finance as a visiting professor at the DUXX Graduate School of Business in Monterrey, Mexico (1995–2001). Shelton has further served as Senior Fellow and Director of the Sound Money Project at the Atlas Network where she authored the monographs, A Guide to Sound Money (2010) and Fixing the Dollar Now (2011). She holds a Ph.D. in business administration from the University of Utah with an emphasis on finance and international economics.
Arvind Panagariya
Chairman of Finance Commision, Government of India


Arvind Panagariya is currently Chairman of the Finance Commission, Government of India. He is on leave from Columbia University where he has served as Professor of Economics and Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy since 2004.
He served as the first Vice Chairman of the NITI Aayog, Government of India, as India’s G20 Sherpa, and led the Indian teams that negotiated the G20 Leaders’ Communiqués during presidencies of Turkey (2015), China (2016) and Germany (2017). Professor Panagariya is a former Chief Economist of the Asian Development Bank and was on the faculty of the Department of Economics at the University of Maryland at College Park from 1978 to 2003. During these years, he also worked with the World Bank, IMF and UNCTAD in various capacities. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Economics from Princeton University and a Master’s in Economics from the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur.

Professor Panagariya is a prolific writer. He has authored or edited more than 20 books and his scientific papers have been published in top economics journals such as American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies and International Economic Review. He writes a monthly column in the Times of India and his guest columns have appeared in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, and India Today.
Peter Mentzel
Senior Fellow, Liberty Fund, Inc.


studied Philosophy and History at the University of Connecticut, and went on to get his Ph.D. in History at the University of Washington in 1994. From 1995 to 2007, he was a professor in the History Department at Utah State University. He joined the staff at Liberty Fund, Inc, in 2008 as a Senior Fellow.Dr. Mentzel's research interests include the Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, European Intellectual History, and Nationalism. Besides his contributions to Liberty Fund's website, he has published articles in peer-reviewed journals such as The East European Quarterly, The Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Nations and Nationalism and Turcica, as well as numerous
contributions to edited collections. He is the author of Transportation Technology and Imperialism in the Ottoman Empire, and The Travelers's History of Venice. He is editor of For God and Country: Essays on Religion and Nationalism; Islam in the Balkans; and (with Henry T. Edmondson III) Imagining Europe: Essays on the History and Future of the European Union. A Memoir (U. of Chicago Press, 1999), which was a New York Times Notable Book. Her scientific work has been on economic history, especially British. Her recent book Bourgeois Equality is a study of Dutch and British economic and social history. She has written on British economic "failure" in the 19th century, trade and growth in the 19th century, open field agriculture in the middle ages, the Gold Standard, and the Industrial Revolution. Her philosophical books include The Rhetoric of Economics (University of Wisconsin Press 1st ed. 1985; 2nd ed. 1998), If You're So Smart: The
Ibrahim Anoba
Managing Editor, African Liberty


Ibrahim B. Anoba is the managing editor of African Liberty where he works with young Africans interested in pursuing careers in public policy and the media. Since 2019, he has trained more than 400 such individuals from 49 African countries. He is a frequent commentator for major West African cable news networks. His commentaries and opinion articles have featured in Forbes, ABC, Aljazeera, Mail and Guardian, Business Insider, The Africa Report, National Interest, Real Clear World, and several others..
Alberto Mingardi
Director General, Istituto Bruno Leoni


is Director General of Istituto Bruno Leoni, Italy’s free-market think tank, which he helped to establish in 2004. He has specialized in the study of antitrust and of healthcare systems. He also studies the history of political thought and is now writing a monograph on English libertarian Thomas Hodgskin after having written mainly on Herbert Spencer and Antonio Rosmini He authored or edited several books, including Herbert Spencer (New York & London: Continuum, 2011), Eppur si muove: Come cambia la sanità in Europa, tra pubblico e privato [And yet it moves: how Europe healthcare is changing, in between government and the private sector] (Torino: IBL Libri, editor w/Gabriele Pelissero, 2010) and translated into English, Antonio Rosmini, The Constitution Under Social Justice (Lexington Books, 2003).
His commentaries have appeared in major Italian newspapers, and he frequently appears on Italian radio and tv. Internationally, his opinion pieces have also been published by The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the Financial Times. He holds a PhD in Political Science from University of Pavia.
Benjamin Powell
Executive Director of the Free Market Institute and Professor of Economics, Texas Tech University

is the Executive Director of the Free Market Institute and Professor of Economics in the Area of Energy Commerce & Business Economics of the Rawls College of Business. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University and taught at San Jose State University and Suffolk University prior to joining Texas Tech.Ben's research focuses on the economics of immigration and the economics of sweatshop labor and contributes to scholarly literature in Austrian economics, public choice, and institutional economics. He has published more than 75 scholarly articles
and policy studies.Ben's research findings have been reported in hundreds of popular press outlets including The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. He also writes frequently for the popular press. His popular writing has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, New York Post, The Dallas Morning News and many other outlets. He has appeared on numerous radio, podcast, and television programs on networks including Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, and Showtime. He was a regular guest commentator on Fox Business Network's Freedom Watch and Stossel.
Lawrence H. White
Professor, George Mason University

is Professor of Economics at George Mason University. Known for his work on market-based monetary systems, his Better Money: Gold, Fiat, or Bitcoin? was published in 2023. He is also the author of The Clash of Economic Ideas (2012), The Theory of Monetary Institutions (1999), Free Banking in Britain (2nd ed. 1995), and Competition and Currency (1989). He co-edited Renewing the Search for a Monetary Constitution(2015). Professor White’s research has appeared in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Literature, the Economic History Review, and other leading economics journals. His popular writings have appeared in The Wall St. Journal and elsewhere.
White holds an AB from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has received an Honorary Doctorate from the Universidad Francisco Marroquin. In May 2023 gave the keynote address at the annual Swiss National Bank conference on Cryptoassets and Financial Innovation. He is monetary policy advisor to the layer-one blockchain project Prasaga, and is an advisor to the nonprofit stablecoin rating agency Bluechip.
Mark S. Miller
Chief Scientist, Agoric


Mark S. Miller is a pioneer of Agoric (market-based secure distributed) computing and smart contracts, main designer of the E distributed persistent object-capability programming language, inventor of Miller Columns, an architect of the Xanadu hypertext publishing system, an early cypherpunk, a representative to the EcmaScript committee, a former Google research scientist, a senior fellow of the Foresight Institute, and founder + Chief Scientist of Agoric.
Chris Berg

Chris Berg is Director, Digital 3 at RMIT University and co-founder of the RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub, the world’s first dedicated social science research centre studying blockchain technology, based at RMIT University, Melbourne. Professor Berg is a leading global authority on regulation, technological change, and civil liberties, and one of Australia's loudest voices for free markets and individual rights. He is the author of 11 books including The New Technologies of Freedom (2020), Understanding the Blockchain Economy (2019), and The Classical Liberal Case for Privacy in a World of Surveillance and Technological Change (2018)
Peter Klein
Chair of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Baylor University


Peter Klein is an economist who studies entrepreneurship, organizations, and business strategy. He is Chair of the Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Baylor University where he also holds the W. W. Caruth Endowed Professorship. He is Co-Editor of the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Senior Academic Advisor of the Mises Institute, and the former Chair of the Academy of Management’s Entrepreneurship Division.
Remy Munasifi
YouTube Content Creator and Comedian


Remy Munasifi is a YouTube creator and comedian whose videos have been viewed hundreds of millions of times. He is a frequent contributor to ReasonTV. Remy resides in Virginia, USA with his wife and three children.