Dear Members of the Mont Pelerin Society,

This year marks the very special occasion of our 75th anniversary, and seeing each other at the 2022 Mont Pelerin Society Meeting in Oslo would be a wonderful way to commemorate it. This meeting will be the perfect occasion to celebrate ideas, our shared values, and the lives of members that over the years have worked tirelessly to advance the free society.

Lars Peder Nordbakken and the program committee have put together an outstanding agenda of topics, speakers, and discussions focused on the very relevant subject “Liberal Institutions and International Order—Renewing the Infrastructure of Liberty”. I enthusiastically invite you to register for this meeting that deals with a theme that was key to our founders, who encourage us in the Statement of Aims to explore “the problem of the creation of an international order conducive to the safeguarding of peace and liberty and permitting the establishment of harmonious international economic relations.”

I look forward to greeting you in person in Oslo and engaging in a much needed conversation,

Gabriel Calzada
Acting President of the Mont Pelerin Society

Dear Members of the Mont Pelerin Society,

It is an honor to invite you to an historic 75th anniversary General Meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society in Oslo, Norway, October 4-8, 2022, to explore, exchange and discuss the need to reform and renew liberalism in response to the great challenges of our time. The meeting will also be historic in another sense, as it will mark the first ever meeting of our society in Norway.

At a time of fundamental uncertainties and threats to both Liberalism and the open society and rules-based international order, it is also with a certain sense of urgency that we invite you to take part in this meeting. We will be covering many pressing and interrelated issues, some of them with clear parallels to the first meeting in 1947.

The main theme of the meeting is “Liberal Institutions and International Order — renewing the infrastructure of liberty”.

This international perspective has always been present in the history of the Mont Pelerin Society, notably among some of its most well-known intellectual profiles from the early years, from Mises and Hayek, to Robbins, Röpke and Einaudi. We might as well have copied the words Lionel Robbins wrote during the first meeting in 1947, as he spelled out the sixth “area of study”, later to be adopted in the official Statement of Aims of the MPS:

“The problem of the creation of an international order conducive to the safeguarding of peace and liberty and permitting the establishment of harmonious international economic relations.”

The program of the Oslo meeting is also reminiscent of the MPS’s early days in another way: There will only be plenary sessions, so we will venture out together on board the same “ship”, throughout the meeting.

On behalf of the program and organizing committees, and my colleagues at Civita, I look forward to welcoming you and your guests in Oslo, October 4-8, 2022.

Lars Peder Nordbakken
Chair of the Organizing Committee
Mont Pelerin Society General Meeting Oslo 2022