The Scholar-in-Residence Program is named in honour of the legacy of noted economist and freedom advocate, Ronald Max Hartwell. Since its introduction in 2014, each year CIS has hosted an international scholar for a month-long residency, so far showcasing scholars from the US, UK and Canada.
Max Hartwell (1921–2009) was an Australian-born economic historian of the British Industrial Revolution. Hartwell’s first academic appointment was at the University of New South Wales, where he held the chair of economic history. This was followed by a readership in Recent Economic and Social History at the University of Oxford, before becoming a Professorial Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, in 1956
Marian Tupy (February 2026)
Marian L. Tupy is editor of HumanProgress.org and a senior fellow at the Centre for Global Liberty and Prosperity. He specialises in globalisation, global well-being, and the economics of Europe and Southern Africa. Tupy is co-author of Superabundance (2022) and Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know (2020). His work has appeared in the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic. He holds a BA from the University of the Witwatersrand and a PhD from the University of St. Andrews. In 2023, Tupy was a guest at CIS, where he participated in our annual Consilium conference.
Simon Heffer (February 2025)
Simon Heffer is a columnist for The Telegraph and a professor of modern British history at the University of Buckingham. He is the author of several acclaimed works, his latest being Scarcely English: An A to Z of Assaults on Our Language (December 2024). Educated at King Edward VI School and Cambridge, Heffer began his career in journalism. He served as deputy editor of The Spectator and The Daily Telegraph. His works include biographies of Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and King Edward VII. His historical works include High Minds: The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain and The Age of Decadence. Since 2017, he has served as a Professorial Research Fellow and is editor of Sir Henry ‘Chips’ Channon’s diaries.
John B. Judis (November 2024)
John B. Judis serves as editor at large at Talking Points Memo. Previously, Judis worked as a senior writer at the National Journal and for many years as a senior editor at The New Republic. His books include The Politics of Our Time, The Populist Explosion, Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, The Folly of Empire, The Paradox of American Democracy, and William F. Buckley Jr: Patron Saint of the Conservatives. Judis received his BA and MA degrees in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley.
James Mann (February 2023)
James Mann is a multi-award winning journalist and author. He was a reporter, foreign correspondent and columnist for the Los Angeles Times for over twenty years, serving as Chief of the Beijing bureau from 1984-1987. His writing has appeared in The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly and The American Prospect. Mann’s books include About Face: A History of America’s Curious Relationship With China From Nixon to Clinton, Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet, The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression and The Great Rift: Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, and the Broken Friendship That Defined an Era.
Alice Han (November 2022)
Alice Han holds an AB in history and economics from Harvard and an MA in East Asian Studies from Stanford, focusing on Chinese political economy and fintech. She worked as research assistant to Ambassador Nicholas Burns at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center (2014-2016) and to Niall Ferguson at Stanford’s Hoover Institution (2016-2020). Her Harvard thesis on Cold War Sino-French relations won the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize. Her work on China and fintech has been published by Tsinghua University, the Hoover Institution, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Policy. Han directs China research for global advisory firm Greenmantle, specialising in Chinese macro and political economy.
Doug Bandow (February 2020)
Doug Bandow specialises in foreign policy and civil liberties. He worked as special assistant to President Ronald Reagan and was editor of the political magazine Inquiry. He writes regularly for leading publications such as Fortune magazine, National Interest, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Times. Bandow speaks frequently at academic conferences, on college campuses, and to business groups, and has been a regular commentator across all the major US television networks. Throughout February, Doug worked as a scholar for CIS, speaking at several events and forums, sharing his expertise on American foreign policy and domestic politics.
Anastasia Lin (August 2019)
Anastasia Lin is an award-winning actress, a Miss Canada beauty pageant titleholder, and an international human rights activist. She is the Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s ambassador for China policy and a senior fellow at the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. In 2015, Lin was denied a visa to attend the Miss World contest in China because of her advocacy for human rights and religious freedom. Throughout August, she spoke at several CIS events including a Leadership Lunch on China and human rights. She was one of four expert panellists at CIS’s annual conference Consilium.
James Bartholomew (October 2018)
James Bartholomew is a journalist and author with a particular interest in the harm welfare states can do to nations. He has been a leader-writer for The Daily Telegraph and The Daily Mail and has written for many other publications including The Spectator. His most recent book is The Welfare of Nations. Throughout October, James spoke at CIS events in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney on ‘Millennials’ dangerous ignorance of Communism’ and performed numerous interviews, appearing on several radio and television programs including ABC TV’s Q&A.
Kay Hymowitz (March 2017)
Kay is the William E. Simon Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. She writes on childhood, family issues, poverty, and cultural change in America. Hymowitz is the author of Manning Up, Marriage and Caste in America, and Liberation’s Children, among others. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. She sits on the board of National Affairs and The Future of Children, and holds degrees from Brandeis and Columbia Universities. During her CIS residency, she appeared on ABC TV’s The Drum, delivered addresses at CIS events, and worked with researchers on issues experienced in both the US and Australia.
Theodore Dalrymple (April 2016)
Dr Anthony Daniels, known by his pen name Theodore Dalrymple, the “Sceptical Doctor”, was born in London in 1949 and retired from medical practice in 2005. He still does medico-legal work. He wrote a weekly column in The Spectator for 14 years about his work as a psychiatrist in an inner city hospital and the prison next door. He has also written for The Australian, Quadrant, and authored several travel books and Junk Medicine. While in Australia, he delivered lectures in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, addressed a sold-out crowd at the Sydney Opera House on ‘Is Society Broken?’, and participated in a round table on recidivism.
Tom G. Palmer (April 2015)
Tom G. Palmer is the executive vice president for international programs at Atlas Network and a senior fellow at Cato Institute. Before joining Cato, he was a fellow at Oxford University and a vice president at the Institute for Humane Studies. He lectures worldwide on political science, public choice, civil society, and individual rights. Palmer has published in many scholarly journals and is the author of Realizing Freedom and editor of The Morality of Capitalism, After the Welfare State, and other volumes. In April, Tom spoke in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane on the morality of capitalism and gave the keynote address to the ALS Friedman Conference.
Brendan O’Neill (March 2014)
Brendan O’Neill is the editor of spiked, the magazine that wants to make history as well as report it, and is a columnist for The Big Issue in London and The Australian. He also blogs for The Daily Telegraph and has written for various publications in Europe and America. He is the author of Can I Recycle My Granny And 39 Other Eco-Dilemmas and is researching a book on snobbery. The inaugural CIS Scholar-in-Residence, Brendan participated in seven CIS events across Australia, most of them sold out. He did many radio interviews and TV appearances, including ABC’s Q&A.