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Students For Liberty Austria
National Coordinator since 2023. One line on a CV, with a fair amount of work behind it. Here's what that work involves.
Role & scope
I run the Austrian chapter of the international classical-liberal student network, at the national level rather than a single campus group. When I took it on there was very little there. It's now a working network with think-tank partners and a regular events calendar in Vienna, with students who show up.
What I do
Build the network
Recruiting students across the country and keeping them engaged. It's slow, unglamorous work, and it decides whether a chapter exists at all.
Run events
Organizing talks and discussions end to end, from program and speakers through venue and logistics, plus the follow-up that turns one event into the next.
Partnerships
Working with the Austrian Economic Center and the Austrian Institute to bring in speakers students wouldn't otherwise get into a room with.
Write
Writing the policy-adjacent pieces that go out to students, which connect the ideas to the people the network is for.
Why I'm involved
It's the applied side of the same interest as the research, not resume padding. The economics I work on is about institutions and how ideas about them play out, and running a network that argues those ideas in public is where that stops being theory. It also teaches things a problem set can't, mainly how to build something from nothing and keep it going without anyone making you.
Events & outputs
We've hosted speakers from the Cato Institute, George Mason, and the Austrian Economic Center, alongside a steady run of smaller discussions in Vienna. The concrete result is a network that wasn't there before, with real partners and a regular calendar of students engaged with these ideas.