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List of the most influential female people in Economics,

#551

Maria João Rodrigues

#129852

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Maria João Rodrigues GOIH is a Portuguese academic and politician who served as Member of the European Parliament and Vice-President of the Group of the Socialists and Democrats from 2014 until 2019. Since 2017 she is also President of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies , succeeding Italian politician Massimo d'Alema.

#552

Diana Galoyan

#176838

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (44 years)

Diana Robert Galoyan , Armenian Economist, Doctor of Sciences /Economics/ Professor․ Biography Education 1996-2001: World Economics, Faculty of General Economics at Yerevan State Institute of Economics, /Diploma of Excellence/, 2002: part-time PhD study at the Armenian State University of Economics.

#553

Gloria Bromell Tinubu

#140295

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Gloria Bromell Tinubu is an applied economist, educator, and political figure. She served on the Atlanta City Council and as a member of the Georgia State Assembly, as well as running as a candidate for Mayor of Atlanta.

#554

Anne Piehl

#93536

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Anne Morrison Piehl is an American economist and criminologist. She is a professor of economics at Rutgers University, the director of Rutgers' Program in Criminal Justice, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She joined Rutgers as an associate professor in 2005, and became a full professor there in 2012. Also in 2012, she became a fellow of the IZA Institute of Labor Economics. In 2020, she was named to the James Cullen Chair in Economics, where she will serve a five-year term. She served on the New Jersey Committee on Government Efficiency and Reform Correct...

#555

Sandra Shelton

#93320

Overall Influence

Sandra Waller Shelton was an American economist, specializing in auditing and accounting. She was a professor in the School of Accountancy & MIS at DePaul University, where she was named KPMG Alumni Distinguished Professor in 2012 and KPMG Neil F. Casson Endowed Professor in 2016.

#556

Julie Remache

#176437

Overall Influence

Julie Ann Remache is an American economist who currently works as selected deputy SOMA manager at the Federal Reserve of New York. Remache has worked at the Federal Reserve of New York since 2000, where she held several positions before being promoted to Senior VP in February 2015. She briefly worked in the private sector between 2008-2009, but returned to the Federal Reserve in January 2009 as Director for Portfolio Analytics. In this position, Remache was part of a team responsible for buying $1.25 trillion of mortgage-backed securities as part of the Federal Reserve's MBS purchase program ...

#557

Mariassunta Giannetti

#178657

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Mariassunta Giannetti is an economist and a professor of finance at the Stockholm School of Economics. She won the Assar Lindbeck Medal in 2013. She is an associate editor of The Journal of Finance and the Journal of Financial Economics since 2021, and she was an associate editor of The Review of Financial Studies, the Review of Finance and the Journal of Banking and Finance. She is a research fellow at CEPR and the European Academic Director of the Financial Management Association .

#558

Shelley White-Means

#178947

Overall Influence

Shelley White-Means is an American health economist who is a professor at The University of Tennessee Health Science Center , and director of the Consortium for Health Education, Economic Empowerment and Research at UTHSC. She is a past president of the National Economic Association.

#559

Lan Zhang

#145304

Overall Influence

Lan Zhang is a Chinese-American scholar of financial econometrics specializing in market microstructure and high frequency data. She is a professor of finance at the University of Illinois Chicago. Education and career Zhang studied psychology at Peking University, graduating in 1992. After earning a master's degree in psychology at the University of Chicago in 1995, she switched to statistics, completing her Ph.D. in Chicago in 2001. While a doctoral student, she also spent a year as an exchange scholar at the Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton University. Her doctoral dissertation, Fro...

#560

Eleanor P. Brown

#182615

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Eleanor P. Brown is an American economist. She is the James Irvine Professor of Economics at Pomona College in Claremont, California, and is a co-editor of the academic journal Review of Economics of the Household.

#561

Nyovani Madise

#177269

Overall Influence

Nyovani Janet Madise is the current director of research and sustainable development policies and head of the Malawi office of the African Institute for Development Policy. She is an advisor to the World Health Organization and a former professor at the University of Southampton in demography and social statistics. Nyovani has over 100 peer-reviewed research publications that focus on global health issues to highlight the influence of social and economic factors on health in low-income countries.

#562

Terri Vaughan

#88347

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Therese Michele "Terri" Vaughan is an American insurance academic, regulator, and advisor. She was insurance commissioner of the state of Iowa for 10 years from 1994 to 2005, and was the CEO of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners for four years from February 2009 to December 2012. She is currently executive in residence at Drake University, having previously been its Robb B. Kelley distinguished professor of insurance and actuarial science, Dean of its College of Business and Public Administration, and director of its Insurance Center.

#563

Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan

#153178

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Ṣebnem Kalemli-Özcan is an economist and the Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is a co-editor of the Journal of International Economics, on the board of editors of the American Economic Review, an associate editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association and an associate editor of the Journal of Development Economics. She is a research fellow at the NBER and CEPR.

#564

Mary Tiffen

#100458

Overall Influence

1931 - 2020 (89 years)

Mary Tiffen was a British economic historian, scholar and development professional. She specialised in ancient irrigation systems and African drylands. Background Tiffen was the daughter of Gwendolen and Horace Steele-Perkins, raised in Farnborough, Hampshire. Her father was an RAF officer and worked during WWII in Hong Kong. After WWII, Mary moved to India, and finished her schooling in Devon, and took a history degree at Girton College, Cambridge . She then taught and worked for NGOs, from 1960 accompanying her husband on overseas missions and conducting independent research. Her Doctor of...

#565

Julie Berry Cullen

#171681

Overall Influence

Julie Berry Cullen is an American economist who is a professor and Chair of Economics at the University of California, San Diego. She is also a researcher at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research considers public economics and the economics of education.

#566

Ann Seidman

#157008

Overall Influence

1926 - 2019 (93 years)

Ann Willcox Seidman was an American economist, active in African liberation struggles, and a writer and university professor. Background Ann Willcox Seidman was raised in New York city - her parents were engineer Henry Willcox and the feminist artist Anita Parkhurst Willcox. Both were later victims of McCarthy era censorship. She held a BA , MS in Economics , and a PhD in Economics that was supervised by Kenneth H. Parsons .

#567

Rukmani Gounder

#184752

Overall Influence

Rukmani Gounder is a New Zealand economics academic. She is currently a full professor at the Massey University. Academic career After a 1994 PhD titled 'An economic analysis of overseas aid motivations : theory and empirical results for Australia' at the University of Queensland, Gounder moved to the Massey University, rising to full professor.

#568

Fan Kang

#158492

Overall Influence

1924 - 2019 (95 years)

Fan Kang was a Chinese economic historian. Considered a founder of world economic history in China, she was elected an honorary member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Biography Fan Kang was born in Weihui, Henan, Republic of China in May 1924. She graduated from the Department of English of Northwest University in 1946, and joined the Communist Party of China in August 1948.

#569

Catherine Liston-Heyes

#128228

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Catherine Liston-Heyes is a Canadian economist, professor at the University of Ottawa and director of its Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. particularly known for her work on Competition and regulation.

#570

Marion Laboure

#177381

Overall Influence

1986 - Present (38 years)

Marion Laboure is an economist, macro strategist and a lecturer. She currently works as a Macro strategist at Deutsche Bank, London. She is also a lecturer at Harvard University in Economics and Finance.

#571

Gail Pacheco

#177495

Overall Influence

Gail Pacheco is a New Zealand economics academic. She is currently a full professor at the Auckland University of Technology. Academic career After a 2007 PhD at titled 'Minimum wage in New Zealand: an empirical enquiry' at the University of Auckland, she moved to the Auckland University of Technology, rising to full professor.

#572

Colette Henry

#117961

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Colette Henry is an Irish social scientist who is Head of the Department of Business Studies at Dundalk Institute of Technology. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the founding editor of The International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship.

#573

Charlotte F. Muller

#181993

Overall Influence

1921 - Present (103 years)

Charlotte Feldman Muller is Professor Emerita of economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and associate director for economics at the International Leadership Center on Longevity and Society, Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She is an author of the book Health Care and Gender and numerous scientific articles. Among her research interests are women's health, health care and aging.

#574

Cécile Ané

#180309

Overall Influence

Cécile Ané is an evolutionary biologist, botanist, and statistical geneticist whose research involves the inference of evolutionary trees and the evolution of inherited traits, especially for plant species, as well as the mathematical statistics underlying these methods. Educated in France, she works in the US as a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with joint appointments in the departments of botany and statistics.

#575

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes

#102573

Overall Influence

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes is a Spanish economist, a Professor in the Economics and Business Management faculty at the University of California, Merced and a Professor and Department Chair at San Diego State University. Since 2015, she has been the Western Representative for a standing committee called the Committee for the Status of Women in the Economics Profession . Her field of work focuses on the fundamentals of labour economics and international migration, particularly the nature of immigration policies and its impact on migrant's assimilation into the community at a state and local level....

#576

Bonnie K. Campbell

#178655

Overall Influence

Bonnie Kathleen Campbell , is professor emeritus of political economy at the Department of Political Science at the Université du Québec à Montréal . She has written extensively on issues related to international development, development assistance, governance, and mining.

#577

Stephanie Shipp

#81978

Overall Influence

Stephanie Slepicka Shipp is an American economist and social statistician. She works at the University of Virginia as a research professor in the Social and Decision Analytics Division of the Biocomplexity Institute and Initiative.

#578

Robin Feldman

#50662

Overall Influence

Robin Feldman is a law professor, researcher, and author best known for her contributions to intellectual property and health care law. Feldman is the Arthur J. Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings College of Law Feldman is a widely cited expert on intellectual property and health care law, particularly as it relates to the pharmaceutical industry, drug policy, and drug pricing.

#579

Graziella Bertocchi

#180048

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Graziella Bertocchi is an Italian economist and Professor of Economics at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Modena, Italy. She is known for her work connecting economic growth within a historical perspective.

#580

Judith Shapiro

#180698

Overall Influence

Dr. Judith Shapiro is a Senior Lecturer in Practice in the Department of Economics at the London School of Economics. The main body of her work lies in Russian Transitional and Post-Transitional Economics as well as the Economics of Health and Population. More recently, she has also researched and discussed the economics of gender.

#581

Julie Elston

#177567

Overall Influence

Dr. Julie Ann Elston is an American economist. She is a professor of business in the College of Business and an adjunct faculty member in the School of Agricultural and Resource Economics at Oregon State University. Dr. Elston graduated from the University of Washington's Department of Economics, and has held academic positions at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin in Germany, the Hoover Institution Stanford University, the California Institute of Technology, the Institut für Entrepreneurship und Innovation, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, and the Max Planck Institute for Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy.

#582

Marianna Ivashina

Marianna Ivashina

#168229

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Marianna Ivashina is a Professor in Antenna Systems at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. Biography Marianna Ivashina received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Sevastopol National Technical University , Ukraine, in 2001. From 2001 to 2010 she was with The Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy , where she carried out research on innovative phased array feed technologies for future radio telescopes, such as the Square Kilometer Array , and APERTIF PAF system for the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope.

#583

Lauren Hersch Nicholas

#178539

Overall Influence

Lauren Hersch Nicholas is an American health economist. She is an associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Early life and education Hersch Nicholas earned her Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University in 2002 before enrolling at George Washington University for her Master of Public Policy degree in 2004. As a graduate student, she co-published The cost of privatization: extra payments to Medicare Advantage plans with Brian Biles and Barbara S. Cooper. Their study found that people with private Medicare plans will pay 8.4% more on average than fee-for-service costs.

#584

Punam Anand Keller

#165522

Overall Influence

Punam Anand Keller is the Charles Henry Jones Third Century Professor of Management at Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College. In 2018, she was named a fellow of the Association for Consumer Research.

#585

Annick Laruelle

#108368

Overall Influence

Annick Laruelle is a Belgian economist who works as a professor in the faculty of economics and business at the University of the Basque Country in Spain. Her research involves social choice, game theory, and voting systems. Beyond her main research efforts in economics and social science, she has also applied game theory to model the competition between cells in cancer.

#586

Feng Shunhua

#180393

Overall Influence

1934 - 2019 (85 years)

Feng Shunhua was a Chinese economist and expert on Russian and Eastern European affairs. She was professor and Chair of World Economic Research at Liaoning University. She was a delegate to the National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

#587

Terry Babcock-Lumish

#114274

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Terry Babcock-Lumish is an American professor, entrepreneur, and policymaker. She is the Executive Secretary of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation. Early life Babcock-Lumish was born in Miami, Florida. Her father, Dr. Robert Lumish, was an infectious disease specialist and Chief of Infectious Diseases at UPMC Mercy Hospital.

#588

Kathleen McGinn

#106722

Overall Influence

Kathleen L. McGinn is an American economist currently the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She currently serves on the global Advisory Council for CFK Africa, a leading NGO working in Kenyan informal settlements.

#589

Leora Klapper

#177683

Overall Influence

Leora F. Klapper is an American economist who currently works as a lead economist at the World Bank in the Finance and Private Sector research team as part of the Development Research group. Klapper has held government jobs in Washington, DC and Jerusalem, Israel in the Bank of Israel, as well as having held private sector jobs for Peter L. Bernstein and the Salomon Brothers firm in New York. She is also the founder of The Global Findex Database and Entrepreneurship Database.

#590

Ganna Pogrebna

#179933

Overall Influence

Ganna Pogrebna is a British behavioral data scientist, decision theorist, educator, author, and academic writer. She currently serves as the Lead for Behavioral Data Science at the Alan Turing Institute, the Executive Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Futures Institute at Charles Sturt University, and an Honorary Professor of Behavioral Business Analytics and Data Science at the University of Sydney.

#591

Ye Tan

#147356

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Ye Tan is a Chinese economist and a research professor at the Institute of Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences since 1988. In 2012, she was appointed as an adjunct professor at Peking University School of Economics. She is a member of the NSFC peer councillor, member of the 19th-century Japanese Society for Economic and Social Studies, and vice president of the Chinese Association of historic Economic Thought. She is the director of the Academy of History of Chinese Economic Thought.

#592

Miriam A. Golden

#179626

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Miriam A. Golden is a political scientist and the Peter Mair Chair in Comparative Politics at the European University Institute. Her research focuses on the selection, responsiveness, and accountability of politicians in Asia, Europe, Africa and North America.

#593

María del Carmen Guisán

#188030

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

María del Carmen Guisán is a professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela and one of the 20 most influential Spanish economists according to the newspaper El Confidencial. She is currently the editor of the academic journal Applied Econometrics and International Development.

#594

Renée Mauborgne

#30624

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Renée Mauborgne is an American economist and business theorist. She is a professor of strategy at INSEAD, a business school based in France. Mauborgne is also the co-director of the Fontainebleau-based INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute. She is known as co-author of the 2005 book Blue Ocean Strategy.

#595

Gwyneth Dow

#101174

Overall Influence

1920 - 1996 (76 years)

Gwyneth Dow was an Australian educator, notable for her contributions to the Australian education system. Early life Dow was born Gwyneth Maude Terry in Melbourne. She took her BA and a Diploma Education in 1957, completing a Master in Education in 1961 and a Doctor's in Education in 1984.

#596

Jean Trepp McKelvey

#177673

Overall Influence

1908 - 1998 (90 years)

Jean Trepp McKelvey was an American economist specialising in arbitration and industrial relations. McKelvey was an esteemed tenure professor at Sarah Lawrence College and Cornell University where at the latter she was a founding faculty member for the School of Industrial and Labor Relations , developing the curriculum and teaching five courses including arbitration, labor law and labor practices. Coined the "mother of arbitration", in 1947 McKelvey was the first woman admitted to the National Academy of Arbitrators, in 1970 became its first woman president and established an arbitration training program for women and minorities.

#597

Michal Grinstein-Weiss

Michal Grinstein-Weiss

#185683

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Michal Grinstein-Weiss, PhD, MSW, MA, is the Shanti K. Khinduka Distinguished Professor at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis where she is also serves as the Associate Dean for Policy Initiatives, the director of the university-wide Social Policy Institute, and the founding director of the Centene Center for Health Transformation. She serves as a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. She previously held positions as a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she established the Asset-Building Research ...

#598

Natasha Hamilton-Hart

#187864

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Natasha Elvina Hamilton-Hart is a New Zealand business academic. She is currently a full professor at the University of Auckland. Academic career After a 1999 PhD titled 'States and capital mobility : Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore in the Asian region' at the Cornell University, she moved to the University of Auckland, rising to full professor.

#599

Judy Feder

#79368

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Judith M. Feder is a Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University and was Dean of the Georgetown Public Policy Institute from 1999 through 2007; she is a member of the Institute of Medicine. Feder is also a Democratic policy consultant and served in the Clinton administration. She ran unsuccessfully in 2006 and 2008 for the United States House of Representatives to represent Virginia's 10th congressional district.

#600

Radha Iyengar Plumb

#187880

Overall Influence

Radha Iyengar Plumb is an American government official currently serving as Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment. She was confirmed for the position by the U.S. Senate on April 18, 2023 and assumed office later that month.

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