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Dr Stephen Davies is the Head of Education at the IEA, running internship programmes for 6th form students and organising liberty-minded events throughout the United Kingdom. Previously he was program officer at the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) at George Mason University in Virginia and a writer at the Centre for Policy Studies. He was Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Economic History at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University, Ohio. A historian, he graduated from St Andrews University in Scotland in 1976 and gained his PhD from the same institution in 1984. He identifies as a libertarian. Dr Davies was a keynote speaker at the IEA's "Think" Conference in 2017 on "the morality of economics," and frequently features on IEA's podcasts and in videos made by the "Learn Liberty" project.

An influential economic historian, Dr Steve Davies has authored several books, including Empiricism and History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) and was co-editor with Nigel Ashford of The Dictionary of Conservative and Libertarian Thought (Routledge, 1991). He is an expert in many areas, including the economics of sport, the history of money and the birth of individualist thought.