Gerhard Schwarz is the Director of Avenir Suisse, a classical liberal think tank in Zurich. He serves as the President of the Progress Foundation and is a member of the advisory board of the St. Gallen Foundation for International Studies. Having studied economics and business administration, he holds a Ph.D. from the University of St. Gallen. He served many years as head of the economic policy and business pages and later also as deputy editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper «Neue Zürcher Zeitung». Karen Horn is a scholar in the History of Economic Thought, an independent author and free-lance journalist. She serves as the editor-in-chief of «Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik», an academic journal published by the «Verein für Socialpolitik», the association of German-speaking economists. She is a member of the Mont Pèlerin Society. Born in Geneva, she earned her Ph.D. in economics at the University of Lausanne.