Jonas Herby (MSc. in Economics) is Managing Director of IRES (Institute for Regulatory Studies), an independent Danish institute focused on regulatory economics. His meta-analysis “Were COVID-19 Lockdowns Worth It?” (with Lars Jonung and Steve H. Hanke), published in Public Choice (2024), generated global headlines and controversy when released as a Johns Hopkins working paper in early 2022, becoming one of the most widely discussed studies of the pandemic and fueling a fierce international debate over lockdown efficacy. He has also published “Don’t Jump to Faulty Conclusions” in Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift (2025) and is the author of Prisen værd? Nedlukningerne ingen taler om (Kolbein, 2025), a book-length evaluation of the Danish COVID-19 lockdowns. He is based in Copenhagen. His email is jonas@herby.dk.