Johan Norberg is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a writer who focuses on globalization, human progress, and economic history. Norberg is the author and editor of more than 20 books, translated into more than 30 languages. They include In Defense of Global Capitalism, Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future, Open: The Story of Human Progress, and his latest book, Peak Human – What Can We Learn From the Rise and Fall of Golden Ages, published in 2025.

Norberg is the writer and host of numerous television documentaries on such subjects as energy, economics, Sweden, India, and Adam Smith. \He also hosts a video series on innovation, New and Improved.

Norberg’s articles and opinion pieces appear regularly in both Swedish and international newspapers, and he is a regular commentator and contributor on television and radio around the world discussing global economics and classical liberal ideas.

For his work, Norberg has received numerous honors recognizing his impact as a global communicator for economic freedom and human progress. His awards include the Distinguished Sir Antony Fisher Memorial Award from the Atlas Network, the Walter Judd Freedom Award from the Fund for American Studies, and the Julian L. Simon Memorial Award from the Competitive Enterprise Institute. He was also awarded the gold medal from the German Hayek Stiftung, an honor presented annually to individuals who advance the ideas of economist F. A. Hayek by promoting free societies, sound economic thinking, and the principles of an open world.