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List of the most influential female people in Economics,

#501

Jane Broadbent

#98706

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Jane Broadbent is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost of Roehampton University. Broadbent was born on 3 March 1952 in Barnsley, England. Prior to her appointment at Roehampton University, Broadbent held the position of Senior Vice-Principal at Royal Holloway, University of London.

#502

Y. Claire Wang

#115425

Overall Influence

Y. Claire Wang is an associate professor at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Her research focuses on obesity prevention strategies and techniques, such as soda taxes, and how effective they may be in reducing the economic costs of obesity.

#503

Yan Chen

#141220

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Yan Chen is a Chinese American behavioral and experimental economist. She is Daniel Kahneman Collegiate Professor of Information at the University of Michigan School of Information, research professor in the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, and distinguished visiting professor at the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University, where she directs the Economics Science and Policy Experimental Lab. She is a former president of the Economic Science Association, an international organization of experimental economists.

#504

Anya Samek

#149101

Overall Influence

Anya Samek is an American economist who works in the fields of applied economics, behavioral economics, experimental economics, and strategy. She is currently an associate professor of economics at the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego.

#505

Maria Floro

#131503

Overall Influence

Professor Maria S. Floro is professor emerita of Economics at American University in Washington, DC. She served, for the most part, as co-director of the Program on Gender Analysis in Economics since it was established in 2008.

#506

Ellen Meara

#136424

Overall Influence

Ellen Rose Meara is a professor at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, part of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, United States. Her research is in the fields of health economics and health policy. She is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and an adjunct professor in economics at Dartmouth College.

#507

Wendy Lee Gramm

#124506

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Wendy Lee Gramm is an American economist and former head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for the Reagan administration. She is also the wife of former United States Senator Phil Gramm. Gramm has gained notoriety for her role in the Enron scandal.

#508

Elizabeth Cascio

#167498

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Elizabeth Cascio is an applied economist and currently a Professor of Economics who holds the DeWalt H. 1921 and Marie H. Ankeny Professorship in Economic Policy at Dartmouth College. Her research interests are in labor economics and public economics, and focus on the economic impact of policies affecting education in the United States. She is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research associate at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics, and Co-editor of the Journal of Human Resources.

#509

Sipho Moyo

#139719

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (43 years)

Sipho Moyo is a Zimbabwean economist. She is the "Director of Cabinet and Chief of Staff in the Office of the President", at the African Development Bank . She was appointed by Akinwumi Adesina, the President of the AfDB, and assumed office on 1 November 2019.

#510

Joan Walters

#176942

Overall Influence

1925 - 2011 (86 years)

Joan G. Walters was a pioneer in the field of economics. Walters received her master's degree and doctorate from Harvard University. She became the first female professor at Fairfield University in 1963. She died July 31, 2011, at the age of 86.

#511

Kaye Husbands Fealing

#130451

Overall Influence

Kaye Husbands Fealing is an American economist who is Dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech. She previously taught for 20 years at Williams College, served in several staff positions with the National Science Foundation, and chaired the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech. She is a former president of the National Economic Association.

#512

Joh Sung-wook

#160461

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Joh Sung-wook is a professor of finance at Seoul National University Business School with expertise in competition policy and corporate governance currently serving as the chairperson of Fair Trade Commission under President Moon Jae-in from 2019. She is the first woman to lead the South Korean antitrust agency since its creation in 1980s. Previously, she was also the first Korean woman to study doctorate-level economics at Harvard University as well as the first woman to join faculty of business schools at Korea University and most recently Seoul National University respectively.

#513

Paige Skiba

#99956

Overall Influence

Paige Marta Skiba is an American economist who is FedEx Research Professor Professor of Law and Professor of Economics at Vanderbilt University Law School, and an associate editor of the International Review of Law and Economics. She is an expert on the causes of consequences of consumer borrowing at high-interest rates, such as payday loans and pawnshop loans. She finds that these borrowers have few other options for credit, but often default on these loans after making expensive payments. During the COVID-19 recession, she was among a group of scholars of bankruptcy in the United States who...

#514

Shatakshee Dhongde

#170722

Overall Influence

Shatakshee Ramesh Dhongde is an associate professor at the School of Economics, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Georgia Institute of Technology. She has provided research papers to the several institutions including the International Monetary Fund and the World Institute for Development Economics Research . Her work has also appeared in several academic journals including World Development.

#515

Rhema Vaithianathan

Rhema Vaithianathan

#104349

Overall Influence

Professor Rhema Vaithianathan is a New Zealand academic who specialises in the field of health economics, and big data. She is a Professor in the School of Economics at Auckland University of Technology and is a co-director of the Centre for Social Data Analytics within that school.

#516

Luisa Lambertini

#169725

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Luisa Lambertini is an Italian economist specialized in monetary and fiscal policies. She is a professor of economics at EPFL , where she holds the Chair of International Finance at the College of Management of Technology.

#517

Caitlin Myers

#93000

Overall Influence

Caitlin Knowles Myers is a professor of economics at Middlebury College and a Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor , known for her recent research on the impact of contraception and abortion policies in the United States. In 2021, when the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization case, she led an effort to compile the best economic research on the impact of abortion access on women's lives into an amicus brief, which was signed by more than 150 economists.

#518

Petra Persson

#158625

Overall Influence

Petra Persson is a Swedish economist and Assistant Professor in Economics at Stanford University. Persson is best known for her work in Public and Labour Economics where her research focuses on the interactions between family decisions and the policy environment. Specifically, Persson's research agenda is centered on studying government policy, family wellbeing, and informal institutions.

#519

María Soledad Martínez Pería

#176328

Overall Influence

María Soledad Martínez Pería is an economist who, as of 2020, is Chief of the Macro-Financial Division of the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund. She obtained her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor's degree from Stanford University.

#520

Sophia N. Antonopoulou

Sophia N. Antonopoulou

#121615

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Sophia N. Antonopoulou is a professor at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece and holds a PhD in economics from the University College London, UK. She has published four books as well as scientific and opinion articles in numerous publications in Greece and abroad.

#521

Friederike Mengel

#119120

Overall Influence

Friederike Mengel is a German economist who is a Professor of economics at the University of Essex. Education and career Friederike Mengel earned an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Mainz in 2003, followed by a PhD in economics from the University of Alicante in 2008, under the supervision of Fernando Vega Redondo. After her PhD, she joined Maastricht University where she was an Assistant Professor from 2008 to 2011 and an Associate Professor from 2011 to 2013. After a period at the University of Nottingham, she joined the University of Essex in 2012 where she has been a Professor since 2015.

#522

Jackie Cumming

#135863

Overall Influence

Jacqueline Margaret Cumming is a New Zealand professor in the School of Government at Victoria University of Wellington Academic career After a BA and MA from the University of Auckland and a Diploma in Health Economics from the University of Tromsø, Cumming completed a PhD at Victoria University of Wellington in 2003 titled Health Services Coverage Regulation: an Evaluation of Policy Options for New Zealand. She later joined the Victoria faculty, rising to professor.

#523

Barbara Reagan

#179504

Overall Influence

1920 - 2002 (82 years)

Barbara Reagan was an American economist. From 1967 - 1990, she was a professor at the Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. Her areas of specialization included analysis and methodology of national surveys of income and expenditure, labour migration of African and Mexican Americans, and occupational segregation by sex and factors affecting women’s labour supply. She was a founding member of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession. After her retirement from Southern Methodist University, she was a director of the American Savings Bank and The Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation.

#524

Gigi Foster

#88430

Overall Influence

Gigi Foster is a U.S. born academic and economist. She is currently a professor of economics at the University of New South Wales. She regularly appears in the Australian media on the topic of economics, having been a panellist on discussion television show Q&A and host of a radio show on the ABC.

#525

Brynhildur Davíðsdóttir

Brynhildur Davíðsdóttir

#174187

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Brynhildur Davíðsdóttir is a professor of environment and natural resources at the University of Iceland and the academic director of the Environment and Natural Resources graduate programme as well as the director of University of Iceland Arctic Initiative.

#526

Nisvan Erkal

#41318

Overall Influence

Nisvan Erkal FASSA is an economist of Turkish-Australian nationality. She is a professor of economics at the University of Melbourne and she is a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Erkal has studied a range of subjects including the effect of policies like China's One Child Policy and how the use of information and traditional methods of choosing leaders can result in discrimination against women.

#527

Kusum Ailawadi

#86385

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Kusum Lata Ailawadi is an American economist. She is currently the Charles Jordan 1911 TU'12 Professor of Marketing at Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College. Education PhD, University of Virginia, 1991MBA, Indian Institute of Management, 1984BSc , St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, 1982

#528

Alicia García-Herrero

#171962

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Alicia Garcia Herrero is a Spanish economist and academic who has been the chief economist for Asia-Pacific at French investment bank Natixis since June 2015. Beyond her work, she is an academic and has worked in Bruegel, a Think Tank based in Brussels. She is an adjunct professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and a Senior Fellow at Bruegel, and non-resident Research Fellow at Real Instituto Elcano. Alicia is also a Member of the Advisory Board of Berlin-based think tank on China, MERICS.

#529

Mária Augusztinovics

#179767

Overall Influence

1930 - 2014 (84 years)

Mária Augusztinovics was a Hungarian macroeconomist known for her work in labour economics and on pension systems. Augusztinovics graduated from the Karl Marx University of Economics in Budapest in 1952, defended her doctoral dissertation there in 1956, and completed a habilitation in 1980. In 1979, as Head of Department in the Hungarian National Planning Office, Augusztinovics was elected as a Fellow of the Econometric Society. She was given the in 2000, the prize of the János Arany Public Foundation for Science in 2002, the Officer's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit in 2008, and the Széchenyi Prize in 2010.

#530

Ida Craven Merriam

#110481

Overall Influence

1904 - 1997 (93 years)

Ida Craven Merriam was an American economist and statistician who became "one of the seminal figures in the early administration of the Social Security program", helping to found the nonprofit National Academy of Social Insurance.

#531

Annette Vissing-Jørgensen

#172036

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Annette Vissing-Jørgensen is a Danish financial economist who holds the Arno A. Rayner Chair in Finance and Management in the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Topics in her research include monetary policy, household economics, and entrepreneurial finance. She was director of the American Finance Association for 2010 and 2012, of the European Finance Association for 2013, and of the Western Finance Association for 2017.

#532

Ruth Hall

#173278

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Ruth Hall is a professor at PLAAS at the University of the Western Cape, which she joined in 2002. A political scientist by training, she specialises in the politics and the political economy of agrarian reform, land redistribution, and poverty.

#533

Melissa Siegel

#172664

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (43 years)

Melissa Siegel is an American academic specialising in migration. She is professor of migration studies at the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance and UNU-MERIT where she has also been head of the migration and development research section since 2010.

#534

Nancy Gallini

#141160

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Nancy T. Gallini is an economist, professor emeritus, researcher, and author. She is a professor emeritus at the Vancouver School of Economics based in the University of British Columbia. She has served on multiple editorial boards such as American Economic Review, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Economic Literature and the Journal of Industrial Economics. In 2008, Dr. Gallini was appointed as a member to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. From 2011-2014 Dr. Gallini served on the executive council for the Canadian Economic Association. H...

#535

Diana Green

#131136

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Diana Margaret Green is a British economist and academic, and a former vice-chancellor. Early life She attended South Park High School for Girls in Lincoln, also known as South Park Girls' High School; Lincoln went comprehensive in 1974. She has said of her time at her grammar school Going to a grammar school was critical in terms of my career. I was encouraged to be ambitious.

#536

Linda Weiser Friedman

#58784

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Linda Weiser Friedman is an author and academic. She is a Professor of Statistics and Computer Information Systems at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center. Friedman holds a PhD in Operations Research from New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering and a B.A degree in Statistics / Biology from Baruch College. Her research and teaching interests are varied and include business statistics, object-oriented programming, humor studies, Jewish studies, online education, social media, and all things technology. Her most recent book is God Laughed: Sources of Jewish Humor , which Publishers Weekly called a "lighthearted but thoughtful study".

#537

Kirsten Sehnbruch

Kirsten Sehnbruch

#139534

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Kirsten Sehnbruch is a British Academy Global Professor and Distinguished Policy Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Sehnbruch is known for her work on conceptualising and measuring the quality of employment, particularly in developing countries. Her research subjects include quality of employment, multidimensional indicators, Latin American labour markets, labour relations, Chilean politics and public policy.

#538

Elspeth Rostow

#68571

Overall Influence

1917 - 2007 (90 years)

Elspeth Rostow was Dean of the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin from 1977 to 1983. Education Elspeth Vaughan Davies was born October 20, 1917. She graduated from Barnard College in 1938. She received a master's degree in history from Radcliffe College in 1939 and a master's degree from University of Cambridge in 1949.

#539

Aryness Joy Wickens

#139543

Overall Influence

1901 - 1991 (90 years)

Aryness Joy Wickens was an American economist and statistician who served as acting commissioner of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics and as president of the American Statistical Association, and who helped develop the United States Consumer Price Index.

#540

Harriet Orcutt Duleep

#123578

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Harriet Orcutt Duleep is a Research Professor with The Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy of the College of William and Mary. She was a daughter of economist Guy Orcutt and is sister to economist Alice Nakamura.

#541

Kasey Buckles

#169596

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Kasey Buckles is a professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame, Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor , and co-editor of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management She is known for her studies of the declining fertility of American women in recent years.

#542

Ann Harding

#165038

Overall Influence

1958 - 2023 (65 years)

Ann Margaret Harding was an Australian economist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Canberra. Academic career Harding completed a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Sydney. She was a contributor to Business Review magazine in 1980 and then joined the Department of the Parliamentary Library in Canberra as a legislative research specialist in January 1981. In 1982 she was employed as a policy analyst by the Department of Social Security. She graduated with a PhD titled Lifetime income distribution and redistribution in Australia: Applications of a dynamic cohort microsimulat...

#543

Ayşe İmrohoroğlu

#175541

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Ayşe İmrohoroğlu is a Turkish economist who is Professor of Finance and Business Economics at the USC Marshall School of Business. Biography İmrohoroğlu obtained her BS in economics from the Middle East Technical University in 1980 and PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1988 with a dissertation titled "Aggregate Implications of Liquidity Constraints" under the advisory of Edward C. Prescott. She joined the USC Marshall School of Business in 1989 as an assistant professor of Finance and Business Economics, got appointed as an associate professor of Finance and Business Economics in 1994 and has been a professor of Finance and Business Economics since 2000.

#544

O Sonfa

#113645

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

#545

Cecilia Castaño

Cecilia Castaño

#139335

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Cecilia Castaño Collado is a PhD in Political Science, professor of Applied Economics, and lecturer at the Complutense University of Madrid's Department of Applied Economics. She is an expert in information technology and its effect on women's employment and work. She has conducted numerous investigations on the digital gender gap and women's access to the information society. In 2006 she created the Research Program on Gender and the Information Society of the Open University of Catalonia . She has been a visiting researcher at Harvard University, MIT, and UC Berkeley.

#546

Willene Johnson

#145876

Overall Influence

Willene A. Johnson is an American economist who is a former vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, former U.S. Executive Director of the African Development Bank, and a former president of the National Economic Association.

#547

Joanna Poyago-Theotoky

#125219

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Joanna Poyago-Theotoky is an economist and researcher, currently a full professor at the University of Salento, a visiting fellow at the Australian National University and a visiting professor at the University of East Anglia. Previously, she has held positions at the University of St Andrews, University of Nottingham, University of Bristol, Loughborough University and La Trobe University, Melbourne. She has served as a member of the Economics Learning Standards Working Party commissioned by the Australian Government to develop new learning standards for Economics Bachelor and Master's degre...

#548

Susan Williams McElroy

#168427

Overall Influence

Susan Williams McElroy is an American economist who is an Associate Professor of Economics and Education Policy at the University of Texas-Dallas. She is a former president of the National Economic Association.

#549

Mirjam van Praag

Mirjam van Praag

#148167

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Mirjam van Praag is a Dutch econometrician. She is the President of the . Van Praag was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020. Biography Mirjam van Praag is the younger daughter of the econometrician Bernard van Praag and Loes van Weezel . Both of her parents are of Jewish descent and went into hiding to avoid capture by the Nazis and their collaborators. She grew up with her older sister near Rotterdam.

#550

Angela Redish

#180910

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Angela Redish is a professor of economics at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia and the acting President of the Canadian Economics Association. From 2001 to 2006, Redish served as the Head of Department of Economics at the University of British Columbia and was awarded The President's Medal of Excellence by the University of British Columbia in 2018 for her contributions towards establishing the Vancouver School of Economics.

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