Guy Sorman (born March 10, 1944, Paris, France) is a French professor, columnist, author and public intellectual in economics and philosophical matters. He has written twenty books that preach the ideals of creativity and modern capitalism. He is close to classical liberalism postulates. His ideas about renewable energy and environmentalism, as expressed in his book Progress and its Enemies, are particularly controversial. He is a strong defender of human rights in China; he is committed to support democracy in many places like Turkey, Egypt, Iran, Chile, Poland, and Argentina. Guy Sorman is one of the founders of the leading French NGO " Action against Hunger, in 1979 : he was the President of ACF until 1990 and became its Honorary President .He is the global advisor of the South Korean President and he has held many public positions in France at the governmental level.

Guy Sorman is the author of twenty books on contemporary affairs, covering the five continents. He is a regular columnist for Le Figaro in France, the Wall Street Journal and City Journal( contributing editor )] in the United States, Dong A in Korea, Fakt in Poland , La Nacion in Argentina, and other publications around the world. Mr. Sorman taught economics at the Paris Institute of Political Sciences from 1970 to 2000 and at many other Universities over the globe. In 1985, he was a visiting scholar at Stanford, Hoover Institution. He has also held several public offices, including advisor to the prime minister of France (1995-1997), Member of the National Commission for Human Rights and deputy mayor of Boulogne ( since 1995), near Paris.

He attended the New York Carnegie Council on April 9 2008 where he talked about China and how it is socially developing as a nation, presenting his new book The Empire of Lies (Newly translated into English). He says "There are not 2 million Tibetans in China. There are 1 billion Tibetans in China." The idea was to show that Chinese people also suffer the same oppression as Tibetans in his view. Like the Dalai Lama, he also does not want China to be boycotted for the Olympics.Sorman's next book on Economy as a science (Economics doesn't lie, A Defense of the Free Market in a time of Crisis has been published July 2009, by Encounter New York).