Leon Louw is a South African intellectual, author, speaker and policy advisor.
He is the executive director and cofounder of the Free Market Foundation, a nonprofit organisation ranked at number 123 in a 2017 list of the most influential think-tanks in the world.
He is a regularly featured speaker and writer in South African and international media.
He has addressed many prominent organisations, including the US Congress hearings on apartheid, the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, the Hoover Institute and the United Nations.