Marian Tupy

Acute Public Policy Analyst at the Cato Institute's Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity

"Contrary to what many people have been expecting, the growth of the human population from roughly 1 billion in 1800 to 7.8 billion in 2020 has not been accompanied by a lowering of living standards but by an explosion in material abundance [...] you will be astounded by the progress that humanity has made, especially over the last 200 years or so."

Marian L. Tupy is the founder and editor of HumanProgress.org, and a senior fellow at the Cato Institute's Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity.

He is the coauthor of the Simon Abundance Index, Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet (2022) and Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know: And Many Others You Will Find Interesting (2020).

His articles have been published in The Financial Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Newsweek, The U.K. Spectator, Foreign Policy, and various other outlets both in the United States and overseas. He has appeared on BBC, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, Fox News, Fox Business, and other TV channels. He has served on the Council on Foreign Relations' Angola Commission, testified in the US Congress about the economic situation in Zimbabwe, and briefed the CSI Foreign Relations Commission and the State Department on developments politicians in Central Europe.

Tupy received his BA in International Relations and Classics from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and his PhD in International Relations from the University of St. Andrews in the United Kingdom.