Germinal G. Van is an award-winning author, economist, political scientist, and scholar. He is a member of the National Association of Business Economics and the Economic History Association. He was born in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. He immigrated to the United States in 2010. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in political science from the Catholic University of America in 2014, earned a master’s degree in political management from George Washington University in 2017, and acquired a non-degree certificate in Mathematical Statistics from Duke University. His works mainly focus on Public Choice Theory, Economic History, Econometrics, Statistics, and Mathematical Economics. He is a proponent of neoclassical economics and classical liberalism. Mr. Van has written more than a dozen books in Economic History, Political Economy, Development Economics, Business Economics, and Macroeconomics.