Outstanding Alumni

David Sanz Bas

Ph.D. in Economics at the URJC. Dean of the School of Social and Legal Sciences and Director of the University Master’s Program in Company Internationalization and Foreign Trade at the Catholic University of Ávila.

Gabriel Calzada

Ph.D. in Economics at the URJC. Rector of Francisco Marroquín University (Guatemala) and Founder of the Juan de Mariana Institute.

David Howden

Ph.D. in Economics at the URJC and Professor at Saint Louis University. Previously, Professor of the Master’s Degree Program in Austrian Economics.

Juan Ramón Rallo

Ph.D. in Economics at the URJC and currently, Professor of Economics at IE Business School. Previously, Professor of the Master’s Degree Program in Austrian Economics.

Daniel Fernández Méndez

Ph.D. in Economics at the URJC and Professor in the Faculty of Economics at Universidad Francisco Marroquín, Guatemala. Also, Director of UFM Market Trends.

Leonidas Zelmanovitz

Ph.D. in Economics at the URJC. Liberty Fund Fellow.

Miguel Ángel Echarte Fernández

Ph.D. in Economics at the URJC and Professor at the Catholic University of Ávila.

Brian Gerard Canny

Ph.D. in Economics at the URJC and Professor at Syracuse University.

Alejandro Pérez y Soto

Ph.D. in Economics at the URJC and Professor at the National University of Colombia.

Bernardo Ferrero

He obtained a double degree in Economics and Politics from SOAS, University of London, and was awarded a Master’s degree in Austrian Economics from Rey Juan Carlos University. He is an alumnus of Mises University and is currently a PhD candidate in Economics at Rey Juan Carlos University, under the supervision of Jesús Huerta de Soto and Philipp Bagus.

Víctor Espinosa

He holds a PhD in Economics and serves as Executive Director of the Mises Institute Cono Sur and as a lecturer in economics at the Faculty of Economics and Business at the Universidad del Desarrollo. He obtained his PhD in Economics with the distinction of summa cum laude from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, where he also completed a Master’s degree in Austrian Economics; both programmes were supervised by Professor Jesús Huerta de Soto.

Miguel Ángel Alonso Cancino

He is the president and co-founder of the Austrian Libertarian Association, a youth organisation founded in Madrid in 2022, dedicated to educating and bringing together young people interested in the study of ideas relating to freedom. He is also a co-founder of the Hispanic American Network for Freedom, an international youth network that brings together organisations from various Spanish-speaking countries with the aim of fostering cooperation and youth leadership.