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Daniel Lacalle Fernández (born August 5, 1967) is a Spanish economist. He works as a fund manager, and he has been a professor of economy.

He is the author of several books on economic disclosure published by Deusto publishing house, and he also contributes to various online and television media. Lacalle has been ideologically defined as a conservative liberal close but not affiliated to the People's Party, a party with which he ran for the April 2019 Spanish general elections. He lives in London.

Biography
He is the grandson of the military officer José Daniel Lacalle Larraga, air minister during the Franco dictatorship, and son of the sociologist José Daniel Lacalle Sousa, author of several books on the labor market, a member of the Communist Party of Spain and head of the Economy and Society section of the Marxist Research Foundation.

Lacalle graduated in Economic and Business Sciences from the Autonomous University of Madrid, and later completed his studies with a postgraduate degree at the IESE Business School at the University of Navarra, the title of International Financial Analyst (CIIA) and a Master in Economic Research from the Catholic University of Valencia. He taught in the Master in International Financial Markets at the IE Business School.

His professional career began in March 1991 at Repsol, where he worked for eleven years and was responsible for international relations and export manager. Later on he went to Enagás and ABN Amro, specializing in energy and oil. He refocused his career as a portfolio manager, starting to work for the Citadel hedge fund in 2005, and then he went to Ecofin Limited in 2007 (not to be confused with Ecofin). Between 2014 and 2015, he worked 7 months for PIMCO, one of the largest managers of global fixed income investment assets, assuming one of the group's vice-presidencies.

In Spain he is known for writing books and for his presence in the media, where he has defended economic liberalism with measures such as the reduction of public spending and the reduction of state powers, in addition to the privatization of strategic sectors. Critics have called him "ultraliberal" and "neoliberal" on the economic front.

He has been a columnist in the digital newspaper El Confidencial, a guest firm in El Mundo, and has published opinion articles for the foreign press such as La Gran Época, The Commentator and The Wall Street Journal. In addition, he has participated in current economic debates on television programs such as La Sexta Noche.

In 2015, he took over a Tressis Gestión fund; However, it did not reach the expected equity amount and in its three years in operation it gave a return below its benchmark, until reaching red numbers in 2018, when the company decided to merge the fund with another. Since 2017 he has chaired the Instituto Mises Hispano, an organization dedicated to disseminating in Spanish the contents of the Mises Institute in the USA, which in turn promotes the postulates of the Austrian School of Economics.

Participation in politics
During the municipal elections of 2015, the candidate of the People's Party (PP) for the mayoralty of Madrid, Esperanza Aguirre, announced that she would have him as a collaborator in economic matters. However, he did not finally go on the electoral lists.

Since March 2019, he has been an adviser in economic matters to Pablo Casado, president of the PP. It was included as number 4 of the People's Party list for the elections to the Congress of Deputies in April 2019 by the Madrid constituency. Lacalle was elected deputy, however, he resigned to collect the certificate of election and therefore his seat, according to him "after careful consideration.".


 * España de futuro. Editorial Deusto, 2016. ISBN 9788423424856.