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    In Memoriam, Gregory M. van Kipnis

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    In Memoriam, Gregory M. van Kipnis

    It is with great sadness that we mark the recent passing of former AIER Chairman of the Board of Trustees and longstanding Voting Member, Gregory (Gregg) M. van Kipnis on the evening of Saturday, November 8, 2025, in New York.

    A student of the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises at New York University where he obtained his MBA in economics and finance, Gregg had a long and distinguished career in finance, business, and banking. Among many other positions, he served as President and CEO of Invictus Partners; Executive Vice President at Jefferies & Co.; Managing Director of NatWest Financial Products in London; and a Principal at Morgan Stanley. In his early career, Gregg was an economist and research director at Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette, as well as the IBM Corporation. Most recently, Gregg was a General Partner and then consultant to the Tiedemann Investment Group. He was also a member of the boards of directors of several financial firms.

    Throughout his life, and as a sign of his commitment to a society of free and responsible people, Gregg was involved in several philanthropic activities and professional associations. Additionally, Gregg taught courses in topics ranging from capital markets, microeconomics, and corporate finance at Spring Hill College, the University of South Alabama, and American University. Gregg also served as a captain in the United States Air Force from 1968-1971, which included time at the Pentagon.

    A longtime supporter of AIER and its mission, Gregg became Chairman of the Board of Trustees in 2016 and remained in that position through 2024. He was also Chairman of the Board of Directors of American Investment Services (AIS), an SEC Registered Investment Adviser founded in 1978 and wholly owned by AIER.

    In all these governance capacities, Gregg made substantial and lasting contributions to AIER’s growth and vitality, for which he sought no acknowledgment, and which played an indispensable role in establishing AIER as one of America’s leading classical liberal and free market institutions. For all these things as well as his counsel and guidance, the Board of Trustees and staff of AIER and AIS are deeply grateful.

    In forthcoming weeks, there will be remembrances of Gregory M. van Kipnis by people who knew him well. But on behalf of AIER, we extend our deepest condolences to his beloved wife, Theresa (Terry), his daughters, and his extended family.

    Terry W. Anker, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, AIER

    Samuel Gregg, President (Interim), AIER

    Samuel Gregg is the Friedrich Hayek Chair in Economics and Economic History at the American Institute for Economic Research. He has a D.Phil. in moral philosophy and political economy from Oxford University, and an M.A. in political philosophy from the University of Melbourne.

    He has written and spoken extensively on questions of political economy, economic history, monetary theory and policy, and natural law theory. He is the author of seventeen books, including On Ordered Liberty (2003), The Commercial Society (2007), Wilhelm Röpke’s Political Economy (2010); Becoming Europe (2013); Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization (2019); The Essential Natural Law (2021); and The Next American Economy: Nation, State and Markets in an Uncertain World (2022). Two of his books have been short-listed for Conservative Book of the Year, and one of his books was short-listed for the 2023 Hayek Prize. Many of his books and over 700 articles and opinion pieces have been translated into a variety of languages.

    He has published in journals such as the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy; Journal of Markets & Morality; Economic Affairs; Law and Investment Management; Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines; Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy; Oxford Analytica; Communio; Journal of Scottish Philosophy; University Bookman; Foreign Affairs; and Policy. He is a regular writer of opinion-pieces which appear in publications such as the Wall Street Journal; Foreign Affairs; The Daily Telegraph; First Things; Investors Business Daily; The Spectator; Law and Liberty; Washington Times; Washington Examiner; Revue Conflits; American Banker; National Review; Public Discourse; American Spectator; El Mercurio; Australian Financial Review; Jerusalem Post; La Nacion; and Business Review Weekly. He has served as an editorial consultant for the Italian journal, La Societa, and American correspondent for the German newspaper Die Tagespost. He has also been cited in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Time Magazine, Christian Science Monitor, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, Reuters, and the Holy See’s L’Osservatore Romano.

    In 2001, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a Member of the Mont Pèlerin Society in 2004. In 2008, he was elected a Member of the Philadelphia Society, and a Member of the Royal Economic Society. He served as President of the Philadelphia Society from 2019-2021. He was made a Distinguished Fellow of the Philadelphia Society in 2023. He is also a Contributor to Law and Liberty and an Affiliate Scholar at the Acton Institute. In May 2024, he was profiled in the Wall Street Journal.

    He is the General Editor of Lexington Books’ Studies in Ethics and Economics Series. He also sits on the Academic Advisory Boards of the Institute of Economic Affairs, London; Campion College, Sydney; La Fundación Burke, Madrid; the Instituto Fe y Libertad, Guatemala; and the Friedman-Hayek Center at the Universidad de CEMA, Buenos Aires. He also serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Markets and Morality and Revista Valores en la sociedad industrial. His acceptance speech.

    In 2024, he was awarded the prestigious Bradley Prize by The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. This Prize honors scholars and practitioners whose accomplishments reflect the Bradley Foundation’s mission to restore, strengthen, and protect the principles and institutions of American exceptionalism.

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