Jamie Whyte, Senior Fellow

A former leader of the New Zealand free market party ACT New Zealand, Jamie Whyte is also a classical liberal philosopher and writer. He is the author of Bad Thoughts: A Guide to Clear Thinking (2004), A Load of Blair (2005), Free Thoughts (2012) and Quack Policy (2013) and has also written columns for publications including The Times, City A.M., Standpoint, Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal. He has also been a foreign exchange trader, a management consultant, and a philosophy lecturer at Cambridge.

Jamie won the Institute for Economic Affairs’ Arthur Seldon Memorial Award for Excellence for Quack Policy in 2014, and the Reason Foundation’s Bastiat Prize for journalism in 2006 (jointly with Financial Times‘ Tim Harford).

He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Auckland, and studied for an MPhil and a DPhil at St. John’s College, Cambridge.