Join CEI this summer in Edinburgh, Scotland for our 40th-anniversary policy summit. We will celebrate Adam Smith’s tercentennial in the “Athens of the North” and host dinner in the former tavern where he held weekly Oyster Club meetings throughout the 1770s with fellow luminaries David Hume and Benjamin Franklin. We will stay at Virgin Hotels’ first international property on Victoria Street, the inspiration for Harry Potter’s Diagon Alley, along the Royal Mile.

When: 6:00 pm Thursday, May 30 – 10:00 am Sunday, June 2, 2024

Hotel: Virgin Hotels Edinburgh, 1 India Buildings, Victoria Street, Edinburgh EH1 2EX

Special Anniversary Ticket Prices are available through March 9th:

$2,000 per person

$1,500 per additional guest
Regularly priced at $2,500 per person and $4,500 per couple.

Reserve your spot now!

March 9, 1776 Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations

March 9, 1984 Fred Smith founded CEI

To register or for details on booking your room in our hotel block at Virgin Hotels Edinburgh, contact [email protected] or 202.331.2764.

Space is limited.

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