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Kristian Niemietz
Head of Health and Welfare at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), London
Kristian Niemietz is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), London. He studied Economics at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and the Universidad de Salamanca, graduating in 2007 as Diplom-Volkswirt (MSc in Economics). He is also a PhD student in Political Economy at King’s College London.
Kristian previously worked as a Research Fellow at the Berlin-based Institute for Free Enterprise (IUF), and as an economics tutor at King’s College London. During his graduate studies, he interned at the Central Bank of Bolivia and the National Statistics Office of Paraguay.
He is the author of the books ‘Redefining the Poverty Debate’ and ‘A New Understanding of Poverty’, which won the 2011 Templeton Freedom Award and the 2012 Arthur Seldon Award for Excellence.
