Javier Milei

On June 26, 2018 Milei was delivering a conference in Metan, Salta, when he called journalist Teresita Frias a "dunce" after she stated he is totalitarian due to his libertarian ideology. As he refused to apologize, he was reported to be exerting gender violence on her by the media, and a local court compelled him to be subjected to a psychological examination. Family and Gender Justice Carmelo Paz forbid him to take part in public reunions as a panelist or lecturer within the boundaries of the Metan city lest he face legal charges.

For more than 21 years he has been University Professor of Macroeconomics, Economics of Growth, Microeconomics and Mathematics for Economists. Since 2016 he has been trying to merge Austrian economics concepts with Monetarism concepts, as he understands Ben Bernanke was the greatest central banker ever , a point of view rejected by austrian economists." Besides his academic career, Milei is the host of his own radio show named "Demoliendo mitos" (Demolishing myths), with frequent participations of the alberdian economist and businessman Gustavo Lazzari and other personalities such as the also alberdian lawyer Pablo Torres Barthe and the libertarian political scientist María Zaldívar.

Since 2012, he leads the division of Economic Studies, Fundación Acordar, a think tank of national scope. He is also a member of the B20, the Economic Policy Group of International Chamber of Commerce (an advisor to the G20), and the World Economic Forum. He is a specialist in economic growth and has been professor of several economic subjects in Argentine universities and abroad. He has authored 9 books. Currently, he works for Argentine tycoon Eduardo Eurnekián.

Javier Gerardo Milei (Buenos Aires, Argentina; 22 October 1970) is an Argentine libertarian economist, author, radio conductor and public speaker sympathetic to the Austrian School of economic thought. He became widely known for his regular TV appearances where he has been critical of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Mauricio Macri and Alberto Fernández administrations. Milei considers himself to be a "short-term minarchist", although "philosophically an anarchocapitalist".

He was born in 1970 to a bus driver. He is of full Italian descent. Milei did high school at Cardenal Copello and decided to pursue a career in economics at the age of 12 after José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz's Economy Administration led the country to a devastating hyperinflation. In late adolescence and early adulthood he was a goalkeeper for Chacarita Juniors until 1989. He also sang in the band "Everest," which played mostly Rolling Stones covers. In a TV show he declared that he currently never visits his parents and that "both of them are dead" to him. To support this view he recalled his college time in which his parents made his life miserable.