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List of the most influential female people in Economics,

#101

Margaret Slade

#29742

Overall Influence

Margaret E. Slade is Professor Emeritus at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia and was a council member of the Royal Economic Society from 2004 to 2008. Slade is best known for her work on Industrial Economics, serving as the President of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics from 2001 to 2003.

#102

Leah Boustan

#28059

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Leah Platt Boustan is an economist who is currently a professor of economics at Princeton University. Her research interests include economic history, labour economics, and urban economics. Biography Leah Platt Boustan earned a BA in Economics from Princeton University in 2000, and her PhD in 2006 from Harvard University. Her dissertation, "The Effect of Black Migration on Northern Cities and Labor Markets, 1940-1970,” won the Economic History Association's Allan Nevins Prize for the best dissertation in US economic history that year.

#103

Minouche Shafik

Minouche Shafik

#9517

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Nemat Talaat Shafik, Baroness Shafik, , also known as Minouche Shafik, is a British-American economist. She served as the President and Vice Chancellor of the London School of Economics from September 2017 to June 2023. On 1 July 2023, she became the 20th president of Columbia University, the first woman since its founding in the year 1754. She also serves on the board of directors of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

#104

Utsa Patnaik

#16743

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Utsa Patnaik is an Indian Marxian economist. She taught at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning in the School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, from 1973 until her retirement in 2010. Her husband is the Marxian economist Prabhat Patnaik.

#105

Seema Jayachandran

#19886

Overall Influence

Seema Jayachandran is an economist who currently works as Professor of Economics at Princeton University. Her research interests include development economics, health economics, and labor economics. Biography Seema Jayachandran earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993. As a Marshall Scholar, she studied Physics and Philosophy at the University of Oxford. In 1997, she began graduate studies in Physics at Harvard University, but completed a PhD in Economics in 2004.

#106

Janice Eberly

#13746

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Janice Caryl "Jan" Eberly is an American economist. Since 2002 she has been the James R. and Helen D. Russell Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University. She served from 2011 to 2013 as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and chief economist of the United States Department of the Treasury. She was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013. Her research focuses on the intersection of macroeconomics and finance.

#107

Brigitte C. Madrian

#37655

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Brigitte C. Madrian is a behavioral economist and is the ninth dean of the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University . She is the first woman to serve as dean and has a joint appointment in the Department of Finance and the George W. Romney Institute of Public Service and Ethics.

#108

Paola Giuliano

#37737

Overall Influence

Paola Giuliano is an economist and currently the Chauncey J. Medberry Chair in Management at the University of California, Los Angeles. Giuliano is a research affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, a research fellow at the Institute of Labour Economics and a research associate at the NBER. In 2004, she won the Young Economic Award from the European Economic Association, which has also elected her fellow.

#109

Sarah E. Turner

#34562

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Sarah E. Turner is an American professor of economics and education and Souder Family Endowed Chair at the University of Virginia. She also holds appointments in the university's Department of Economics, the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, and the School of Education and Human Development . She is a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research affiliate at the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan.

#110

Serena Ng

#51870

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Serena Ng is the Edwin W. Rickert Professor of Economics at Columbia University. Her fields of research and interest include macroeconomics, time series, econometrics, and big data. Education Ng received a B.A. and M.A. from University of Western Ontario. Later, she did her Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1993.

#111

Kathryn Zeiler

#31330

Overall Influence

Kathryn M. Zeiler is the Nancy Barton Scholar and Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. Zeiler's work primarily focuses on health law, torts law, law and economics, medical malpractice, and disclosure law.

#112

Mary Kaldor

#8246

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Mary Henrietta Kaldor is a British academic, currently Professor of Global Governance at the London School of Economics, where she is also the Director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit. She also teaches at the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals . She has been a key figure in the development of cosmopolitan democracy. She writes on globalisation, international relations and humanitarian intervention, global civil society and global governance, as well as what she calls New Wars.

#113

Deniz Kandiyoti

#17056

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Deniz Kandiyoti is an author and an academic of research in the fields of gender relations and developmental politics in the Middle East, specifically Turkey. She holds a PhD from London School of Economics.

#114

Isher Judge Ahluwalia

Isher Judge Ahluwalia

#16824

Overall Influence

1945 - 2020 (75 years)

Isher Judge Ahluwalia was an Indian economist, public policy researcher, and professor. She was Chairperson Emeritus, Board of Governors, at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations . She had also served as the chairperson of the board of the International Food Policy Research Institute, and the chairperson of the Government of India's High-Powered Committee on Urban Infrastructure Services. She was awarded India's 3rd highest civilian award, Padma Bhushan, in 2009.

#115

Nina Smith

#36196

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Nina Smith née Gotfred-Rasmussen is a prominent Danish economist. Since 2005, she has been Professor of Economics and Business at Aarhus University. Smith has held a number of major educational and advisory positions, including research professor at the German Institute for Economic Research and head of the board of the Independent Research Fund Denmark. As of July 2021, she serves on the boards of several leading financial companies in Denmark such as Nykredit.

#116

Randy Albelda

#42148

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Randy Pearl Albelda is an American feminist economist, activist, author, and academic who specialises in poverty and gender issues. Background Albelda attended Smith College, where she received a B.A. in Economics in 1977, followed by a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherstin 1983. Her first publication was a study of the determinants of women's wages during the Progressive era.

#117

Eva Vivalt

#22196

Overall Influence

Eva Love Vivalt is a Canadian economist. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto and the director of the Global Priorities Institute at the University of Oxford.

#118

Antoinette Schoar

#29083

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Antoinette Schoar is a German-American economist, currently the Stewart C. Myers-Horn Family Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Education and career Schoar received her Diploma in Economics from the University of Cologne in 1995 and received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 2000, advised by Sherwin Rosen. In 2000, she joined MIT as an assistant professor in finance and became a full professor in 2008. She has served on the inaugural advisory board of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

#119

Natalya Pochinok

Natalya Pochinok

#30449

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Natalya Borisovna Pochinok born Gribkova is a D.Sc. in Economic Sciences, professor, rector of Russian State Social University . Biography As a member of junior national teams of the USSR and the Russian Federation in athletics Natalia Pochinok won several international competitions in running from 1991 to 1994.

#120

Jill McCluskey

#54554

Overall Influence

Jill Jennifer McCluskey is an American economist. She is a Distinguished Professor of Sustainability and Director of the School of Economic Sciences at Washington State University. Early life and education McCluskey completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Economics and Political Science in 1989 at the University of California, Santa Barbara before completing her Master's degree in economics at Georgetown University. Following this, she enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley for her Master of Science degree and PhD in agricultural and resource economics.

#121

Shoshana Grossbard

#43337

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Shoshana Grossbard is an economist and professor of economics emerita at San Diego State University. She is also a member of the Family Inequality Network, HCEO, University of Chicago and a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor and the CESifo Institute. She is a well-published scholar as well as a founder of two organizations related to household economics: a journal, the Review of Economics of the Household founded in 2001 and the Society of Economics of the Household. The Society holds annual meetings since 2017.

#122

Linda Bilmes

#20505

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Linda J. Bilmes is an American economist who is the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer Chair in Public Policy and Public Finance at Harvard University. She is a faculty member at the Harvard Kennedy School where she teaches public policy, budgeting and public finance. She served as Assistant Secretary and Chief Financial Officer of the US Department of Commerce during the presidency of Bill Clinton.

#123

Kathryn Graddy

#41871

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Kathryn Graddy is a professor of economics and the dean of Brandeis International Business School at Brandeis University. She is the Fred and Rita Richman Distinguished Professor in Economics at Brandeis University. Her research interests include the economics of art, culture, and industrial organization.

#124

Anna Nagurney

#21878

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Anna Nagurney is an American mathematician, economist, educator and writer in the field of Operations Management. Nagurney is the Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies in the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Amherst, Massachusetts. Previously, she held the John F. Smith Memorial Professorship of Operations Management at the Isenberg School of Management from 1998 to 2021.

#125

Shelly Lundberg

#32294

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Shelly J. Lundberg is an economist and currently holds the positions of Leonard Broom Professor of Demography at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she serves as Associate Director of the Broom Center for Demography. Lundberg is one of the world's leading population economists.

#126

Susan Howson

#32571

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Susan Kyle Howson is a British economist, currently professor emeritus of economics at the University of Toronto in Canada. Born in London, Howson received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Cambridge in 1975, as well as a B.A./M.Sc. from the London School of Economics in 1967/1969. After graduating, she worked as a research economist in the International Division of the Bank of England.

#127

Jill Tiefenthaler

#22064

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Jill Tiefenthaler is an American academic and economist who is the first female CEO of the National Geographic Society. Previously, Tiefenthaler was the 13th president of Colorado College from July 2011 to 2020 and the provost of Wake Forest University.

#128

Marianne Ferber

#38094

Overall Influence

1923 - 2013 (90 years)

Marianne A. Ferber was an American feminist economist and the author of many books and articles on the subject of women's work, the family, and the construction of gender. She held a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

#129

Linda Datcher Loury

#48041

Overall Influence

1952 - 2011 (59 years)

Linda Datcher Loury was an American economist who was a professor of economics at Tufts University. Her work on family and neighborhood economics put her among the founders of social economics. Biography Loury was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1952. She attended the Friends School of Baltimore, Swarthmore College , and earned a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978. She held research and teaching positions at the University of Michigan and the Harvard Kennedy School before joining the faculty of Tufts University in 1984, where she worked for the remainder of her life. She married her graduate school classmate Glenn Loury in 1983, and together they raised two sons.

#130

Hélène Rey

#19007

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Hélène Rey is a French economist who serves as Professor at London Business School . Her work focuses on international trade, financial imbalances, financial crises and the international monetary system.

#131

Susan M. Collins

Susan M. Collins

#42237

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Susan M. Collins is an American economist who has served as the 14th president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston since July 1, 2022. She is the first African American woman and first woman of color to lead any of the 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks. Collins previously served as the 16th provost and executive vice president for academic affairs of the University of Michigan from 2020 to 2022.

#132

Katherine Baicker

#18721

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Katherine Baicker is an American health economist best known for the Oregon Medicaid health experiment. She serves as the provost of the University of Chicago. Biography Baicker received her B.A. in Economics from Yale University in 1993 and her Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1998. She began her academic career teaching economics at Dartmouth College from 1998 to 2005 and her political career in 2001, serving as a senior economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisors. From 2005 to 2007, she taught public policy at the University of California Los Angeles School of Public Affairs.

#133

Irma Adelman

#28407

Overall Influence

1930 - 2017 (87 years)

Irma Glicman Adelman was a Romanian-American economist. Early life and education Adelman was born in Chernivtsi, Romania in March 1930. In 1939, fleeing the Nazi regime, she moved with her family to Palestine where she continued her education through high school.

#134

Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg

#40186

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Pinelopi "Penny" Koujianou Goldberg is a Greek-American economist who served as chief economist of the World Bank from 2018 until 2020. She holds the named chair of Elihu Professor of Economics at Yale University. She is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

#135

Paola Sapienza

#16000

Overall Influence

Paola Sapienza is an American and Italian economist. She is a member of the Kellogg School of Management faculty at Northwestern University. She is also a research associate at the NBER and CEPR. Her fields of interest include financial economics, cultural economics, and political economy.

#136

Sandra Pianalto

#18653

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Sandra Pianalto is an economist. She previously served as the tenth chief executive of the Fourth District Federal Reserve Bank, at Cleveland from 2003 to 2014. Early life and education Pianalto was born in Valli del Pasubio, Italy. She earned a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Akron and a master's degree in economics from The George Washington University. She is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and holds honorary doctor of humane letters degrees from the University of Akron, Baldwin-Wallace College, Kent State University, and Ursuline College.

#137

Barbara Rossi

#69056

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Barbara Rossi is an ICREA professor of economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, a Barcelona GSE Research Professor, a CREI affiliated professor and a CEPR Fellow. She is a founding fellow of the International Association of Applied Econometrics, a fellow of the Econometric Society and a director of the International Association of Applied Econometrics.

#138

Lisa D. Cook

#11836

Overall Influence

Lisa DeNell Cook is an American economist who has served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors since May 23, 2022. She is the first African American woman and first woman of color to sit on the Board. Before her appointment to the Federal Reserve, she was elected to the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

#139

Eliana La Ferrara

#36748

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Eliana La Ferrara is an Italian economist and Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Before receiving tenure at Harvard in 2022, she held the Fondazione Romeo ed Enrica Invernizzi Chair in Development Economics at Bocconi University, where she also acted as Scientific Director of the Laboratory for Effective Anti-poverty Programs . Previously, she was also the president of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development as well as the president of the European Economic Association. In terms of research, her fields of interest include deve...

#140

Carolyn Heinrich

#39895

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Carolyn J. Heinrich is the Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Public Policy, Education and Economics at Vanderbilt University. Career Prior to her appointment at Vanderbilt University, she was the Sid Richardson Professor of Public Affairs, affiliated Professor of Economics, and Director of the Center for Health and Social Policy at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin. She continues as a Research Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She has also held professorships at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she served as the Director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

#141

Myrna Wooders

#22661

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Myrna Wooders is a Canadian economist who has made significant contributions to public economic theory, network theory and game theory. Specifically, her work has focused on coalition theory, public good theory and club theory. Myrna currently is a professor of economics at Vanderbilt University and the University of Warwick.

#142

Gizem Saka

#40961

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Gizem Saka is a contemporary Turkish artist and an economist. She is a senior lecturer at the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, and a visiting lecturer at Harvard University, teaching art markets.

#143

Agneta Stark

#26495

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Agneta Stark , is the vice chancellor of Dalarna University in Sweden and was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics from 2012 to 2013. She is also the vice chair of the Association of Swedish Higher Education.

#144

Martha Chen

#16014

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Martha Chen is an American academic, scholar and social worker, who is presently a lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and senior advisor of the global research-policy-action network WIEGO and a member of the Advisory Board of the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research . Martha is a development practitioner and scholar who has worked with the working poor in India, South Asia, and around the world. Her areas of specialization are employment, poverty alleviation, informal economy, and gender. She lived in Bangladesh working with BRAC, ...

#145

Dora L. Costa

#41428

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Dora L. Costa is an American economics professor at the University of California, Los Angeles where she is the Kenneth L. Sokoloff Professor of Economic History. She is also the department chair of the economics department. In addition to her teaching position, Costa is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research .

#146

Karolina Ekholm

#37691

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Karolina Ekholm is a Swedish economist and public official. Education and research Ekholm, obtained a PhD in 1995 from the Department of Economics at Lund University. As a researcher she has focused mainly on the effects of globalisation. Since 1 April 2010 she is also Professor at Stockholm University.

#147

Monika Piazzesi

#50619

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Monika Piazzesi received her PhD in economics at Stanford University. She was a recipient of the Deutsche Studienstiftung ERP . She has been the Joan Kenney Professor of Economics at Stanford University since 2010. She is also a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. In 2005, when she was an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Business School, she received the Germán Bernácer Prize. She subsequently won the Elaine Bennett Research Prize. Her research focuses on asset pricing and time series econometrics, especially related to bond markets and the term structure of interest rates.

#148

Anna Mikusheva

#49465

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Anna Mikusheva is the Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was the 2012 recipient of the Elaine Bennett Research Prize, a bi-annual prize that recognizes and celebrates research by a woman in the field of Economics, and was selected as a Sloan Research Fellow in 2013. She is a co-editor of the journal Econometric Theory.

#149

Fiona Scott Morton

#22549

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Fiona M. Scott Morton is an American economist who serves as the Theodore Nierenberg Professor at Yale School of Management. Her research in industrial organization has covered industries including magazines, shipping, pharmaceuticals, and internet retail. She served as associate dean of the Yale School of Management from 2007 to 2010.

#150

Annamaria Lusardi

Annamaria Lusardi

#30148

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Annamaria Lusardi is an Italian-born economist and the Denit Trust Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Economics and Accountancy at The George Washington University School of Business. In 2011 she founded and continues to serve as the Academic Director of the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center. Her interests focus on financial literacy and financial education.

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