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List of the most influential female people in Economics,

#151

Claudia Maria Buch

#18782

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Claudia Maria Buch is a German economist who currently serves as Vice President of the Bundesbank. She previously worked as professor at the University of Tübingen and served as a member of the German Council of Economic Experts. Buch worked as scientific director at the Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung in Tübingen and as chairperson of the economic council at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. She still teaches at the Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg. Her research focuses on regulation and supervision of banking.

#152

Pratima Bansal

#22951

Overall Influence

Pratima "Tima" Bansal is a Canadian economist and management professor. She is a professor of strategy at the Ivey Business School and director of Ivey's Centre on Building Sustainable Value. She is the founder and executive director of the Network for Business Sustainability, a vehicle aimed at sharing academic research on business sustainability with managers. In April 2020, she was appointed to chair the expert panel on the circular economy by the Council of Canadian Academies.

#153

Catharine Bond Hill

Catharine Bond Hill

#22516

Overall Influence

Catharine "Cappy" Bond Hill is the former president of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. She began in 2006, after former president Frances D. Fergusson retired. Before coming to Vassar, Hill was provost at Williams College. In September 2016 she became managing director of Ithaka S+R.

#154

Marilyn Waring

#30644

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Dame Marilyn Joy Waring is a New Zealand public policy scholar, international development consultant, former politician, environmentalist, feminist and a principal founder of feminist economics. In 1975, aged 23, she became New Zealand's youngest member of parliament for the liberal-conservative New Zealand National Party. As a member of parliament she chaired the Public Expenditure Committee. Her support of the opposition Labour Party's proposed nuclear-free New Zealand policy was instrumental in precipitating the 1984 New Zealand general election, and she left parliament in 1984.

#155

Brigitte Granville

#37263

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Brigitte Evelyne Granville is an economist with dual French and British nationality. She is Professor of International Economics and Economic Policy in the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary University of London. She founded the Centre for Globalisation Research .

#156

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr

#26886

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is a development economist who has gained recognition for her work with the United Nations Development Programme and for her writing in publications including the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, which she founded.

#157

Sydney C. Ludvigson

#56511

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Sydney C. Ludvigson is an economist and the Julius Silver, Roslyn S. Silver, and Enid Silver Winslow Professor of Economics at New York University. Since 2017, she serves as chair of NYU's economics department.

#158

Olivia S. Mitchell

#16972

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Olivia S. Mitchell is an American economist and the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Her interests focus on pensions and social security, and she is the executive director of the Pension Research Council, the oldest U.S. center devoted to scholarship and policy-relevant research on retirement security. She also heads Wharton's Boettner Center for Pensions and Retirement Research.

#159

Victoria Bateman

#36765

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (45 years)

Victoria N. Bateman is a British feminist economist and academic, specialising in economic history. She is a fellow in economics at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. She is Director of Studies for the Economics Tripos at Gonville and Caius College.

#160

Heidi Hartmann

#10761

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Heidi I. Hartmann is an American feminist economist who is founder and president emerita of the Washington-based Institute for Women's Policy Research , a research organization created to conduct women-centered, public policy research. She retired from her position as President and CEO in 2019.

#161

Rachel McCulloch

#51257

Overall Influence

1942 - 2016 (74 years)

Rachel McCulloch was an economist and the Rosen Family Professor of International Finance in the Department of Economics and International Business School at Brandeis University. She was a leading figure in the field of international trade, with over 100 published papers, served as a consultant to the World Bank and Asian Development Bank, and was a member of the Presidential Commission on Industrial Competitiveness. She also served on the board of directors of the International Trade and Finance Association and on the Executive Committee of the American Economic Association. She was the 20...

#162

Jennifer Hunt

#48799

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Jennifer Hunt is a professor of economics at Rutgers University. She previously served as deputy assistant secretary for microeconomic analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury after serving a term as Chief Economist to the U.S. Secretary of Labor, serving under acting secretary Seth Harris and Secretary Thomas Perez. She is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She has done research in the areas of employment and unemployment policy, immigration, wage inequality, transition economics, crime and corruption. Her past research focused on immigration and innovation in the United States, the U.S.

#163

Agnès Bénassy-Quéré

#20283

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Agnès Bénassy-Quéré is a French economist who has been serving as Deputy Governor of the Banque de France since 2023. From 2020 to 2023, Bénassy-Quéré was the chief economist at the Direction générale du Trésor . She is also a professor of economics at University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and at the Paris School of Economics.

#164

Gita Sen

#22177

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Gita Sen is an Indian feminist scholar. She is a Distinguished Professor & Director at the Ramalingaswami Centre on Equity & Social Determinants of Health, at the Public Health Foundation of India. She is also an adjunct professor at Harvard University, a professor emeritus at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, and the General Coordinator of DAWN .

#165

Ayşe Buğra

#14836

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Ayşe Buğra is a Turkish social scientist, currently professor of Political Economy at the Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History and the co-founder of the Social Policy Forum of Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. She is a recipient of the TWAS Prize for Social Sciences which she received in 2014.

#166

Ulrike Malmendier

#29899

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Ulrike M. Malmendier is a German economist who is currently a professor of economics and finance at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work focuses on behavioral economics, corporate finance, and law and economics. In 2013, she was awarded the Fischer Black Prize by the American Finance Association.

#167

Devaki Jain

#27861

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (91 years)

Devaki Jain is an Indian economist and writer, who has worked mainly in the field of feminist economics. In 2006 she was awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award from Government of India, for her contribution to social justice and the empowerment of women.

#168

Jennifer Carpenter

#39180

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Jennifer N. Carpenter is an American finance academic best known for her pioneering research into executive stock options. Other interests include fund manager compensation, survivorship bias, corporate bonds, and option pricing. She has been published in numerous journals including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Business.

#169

Kristin Forbes

#47460

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Kristin J. Forbes is an American economist. She is the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management and Global Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Early life The eldest of three children, Forbes was raised in Concord, New Hampshire and attend Concord High School. In 1988, as a high school senior, she was selected as New Hampshire's Presidential Scholar, which gave her the opportunity to meet President Ronald Reagan at a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden.

#170

Nitasha Kaul

#25664

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Nitasha Kaul is a British academic, writer and poet based in London. In addition to fiction, she writes and speaks about topics that cover the political economy, Bhutan, Kashmir, nationalism in India, gender and identity.

#171

Pascaline Dupas

#35139

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Pascaline Dupas is a French economist whose research focuses on development economics and applied microeconomics, with a particular interest in health, education, and savings. She is a professor in economics and public affairs at Princeton University and is a co-chair of the Poverty Action Lab's health sector. She received the Best Young French Economist Prize in 2015.

#172

Stephanie Seguino

Stephanie Seguino

#63640

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Stephanie Seguino is a feminist professor of economics at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont, United States. She was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics from 2010 to 2011 and has also carried out research for both the United Nations and the World Bank.

#173

Marianne Baxter

#74107

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Marianne Baxter is a professor of economics at Boston University. She obtained her PhD from the University of Chicago and a bachelor from the University of Rochester. She is a research associate at the NBER. She is the 412th most cited economist in the world according to IDEAS.

#174

Sagiri Kitao

#67701

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

is a Japanese economist and professor at the University of Tokyo. Career Kitao was born on 1972 , in Saitama, Japan. She graduated from Waseda University in 1996. She worked for Goldman Sachs, originally in the Investment Banking Division, then moved to the Fixed Income Division, before leaving the company in 1999. After working for Goldman Sachs, she returned to school to further her education.

#175

Rita Almeida

#45273

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Rita K. Almeida is a Portuguese economist who joined the World Bank in 2002 as a research economist. After serving as a senior economist with responsibilities for lending and analysis in support of education in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East and North Africa, as of June 2020 she is human development programme leader for the countries of Central America. Over the years, Almeida has coordinated a range of World Bank and IZA publications in the areas of education, job training and public social spending. Since 2003, she has been a Research Fellow of the IZA Institute of Labor...

#176

Xiaohong Chen

#63682

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Xiaohong Chen is a Chinese economist who currently serves as the Malcolm K. Brachman Professor of Economics at Yale University. She is a fellow of the Econometric Society and a laureate of the China Economics Prize. As one of the leading experts in econometrics, her research focuses on econometric theory, Semi/nonparametric estimation and inference methods, Sieve methods, Nonlinear time series, and Semi/nonparametric models. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.

#177

Miren Etxezarreta

Miren Etxezarreta

#37197

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Miren Etxezarreta Zubizarreta is a Spanish Basque economist and intellectual of the left who is linked to social movements. Since 2007 she has been Professor Emeritus in Applied Economics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

#178

Carolyn Fischer

#23431

Overall Influence

Carolyn Fischer is an environmental economist. She was born in Ontario, later moving to the United States. She is a senior fellow for Resources for the Future, as well as being a Canada 150 Research Chair in Climate Economics, Innovation, and Policy. She is also a professor of environmental and natural resource economics at Vrije Universiteit-Amsterdam.

#179

Susan Dynarski

#40325

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Susan Marie Dynarski is an American economist who is currently professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is also a faculty research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

#180

Margit Osterloh

Margit Osterloh

#40831

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Margit Osterloh is a German and Swiss economist. Research Osterloh’s research areas include: Organizational Theory, Theory of the Firm, Innovation and Technology Management, Process Management, Knowledge Management, Trust Management, Philosophy of Science, Gender Economics, Corporate Governance, Research Governance, Migration Policy and Aleatoric Democracy. In the media she expresses her opinion on the following research topics:

#181

Anna Aizer

#25908

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Anna Aizer is a labor and health economist, who currently serves as the Maurice R. Greenberg Professor of Economics at Brown University where she is also a Faculty Associate at the Population Studies and Training Center. Her research focuses on child health and well-being, in particular the effect of societal factors and social issues on children's health.

#182

Stephany Griffith-Jones

Stephany Griffith-Jones

#35889

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Stephany Griffith-Jones is an economist specializing in international finance and development. Her expertise lies in the reform of the international financial system, particularly in financial regulation, global governance, and international capital flows. Currently, she serves as a member of the Governor Board at the Central Bank of Chile. She has held various positions throughout her career, including financial markets director at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue based at Columbia University, associate fellow at the Overseas Development Institute, and professorial fellow at the Institute ...

#183

Nora Lustig

#45802

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Nora Lustig is the Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics and the Director of the CEQ Institute at Tulane University, and a non-resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development and the Inter-American Dialogue.

#184

Heidi Williams

#53066

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (43 years)

Heidi Williams is a Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College and Director of Science Policy at the Institute for Progress. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and earned her MSc in development economics from Oxford University and her PhD in Economics from Harvard University. Prior to Dartmouth, Williams was the Charles R. Schwab Professor of Economics at Stanford University and an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

#185

Dilma Rousseff

#6957

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Dilma Vana Rousseff is a Brazilian economist and politician who served as the 36th president of Brazil, holding the position from 2011 until her impeachment and removal from office on 31 August 2016. She is the first woman to have held the Brazilian presidency and had previously served as chief of staff to former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from 2005 to 2010. She has been chair of the New Development Bank since March 2023.

#186

Mary S. Morgan

#57792

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Mary Susanna Morgan FBA FRDAAS, is an economist, philosopher, historian, and the Albert O. Hirschman Professor of the History and Philosophy of Economics in the London School of Economics. She was Department Chair of Economic History between 2002 and 2005. In 2002, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

#187

Henryka Bochniarz

Henryka Bochniarz

#28914

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Henryka Teodora Bochniarz is a Polish economist and administrator who is a former Minister of Industry and Trade in the Government of Poland. Bochniarz is also the founder and head of the Polish Confederation of Private Employers ‘Lewiatan’ and president for Central and Eastern Europe Region of Boeing International Co.

#188

Mary E. Lovely

#64138

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Mary Elizabeth Lovely is a professor emeritus of economics at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University. She is a senior fellow of the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C. Lovely often appears on national media as an expert on China-US trade, international economic integration, and public economics.

#189

Rebecca M. Henderson

Rebecca M. Henderson

#29532

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Rebecca M. Henderson, FBA is a British economist, currently the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard Business School. She teaches Reimagining Capitalism in the Master of Business Administration Program.

#190

Matilde Bombardini

#48178

Overall Influence

Matilde Bombardini is an Italian economist, who is a professor of Economics of International Trade at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia , Vancouver. She is a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research in the Institutions, Organisations & Growth Program since June 2007 and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research for the Political Economy Program since April 2009.

#191

Susan M. Phillips

Susan M. Phillips

#34262

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Susan Meredith Phillips is an American economist who served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors from 1991 to 1998. She was the third woman to sit on the Board. After leaving the Fed, Phillips served as dean of the George Washington University School of Business from 1998 to 2010.

#192

Barbara Baarsma

Barbara Baarsma

#85393

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Barbara Elisabeth Baarsma is a Dutch economist, and Professor of Market Forces and Competition Issues at the University of Amsterdam. Biography Born in Leiden, Baarsma grew up in Goeree-Overflakkee, where her father was otolaryngologist. After attending the Atheneum in Middelharnis, in 1988 she started studying Industrial Design at the Delft University of Technology. In 1989 she moved to the University of Amsterdam, where she received her MA cum laude in Economics in 1993, and her PhD in Economics in 2000 with a thesis entitled "Monetary valuation of environmental goods: Alternatives to conti...

#193

Judith Rees

#32762

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Dame Judith Anne Rees, , is a distinguished academic geographer, was interim director of London School of Economics and Political Science from May 2011 until September 2012. Professor Rees also acts as director for its Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and is Vice-Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.

#194

Noreena Hertz

#21563

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Noreena Hertz is an English academic, economist and bestselling author, who sits on the boards of Mattel, Warner Music Group and Workhuman. She has been Honorary Professor at the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity at University College London since 2014.

#195

Ann E. Harrison

#31921

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Ann E. Harrison is the 15th Dean of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and the second woman to head the top-ranked business school. Dean Harrison is a renowned economist and one of the most highly-cited scholars on foreign investment and multinational firms.

#196

Carol Corrado

#45448

Overall Influence

Carol A. Corrado is an American economist who was the former chief of industrial output at the Federal Reserve Board and currently serves as a senior advisor and research director in economics on The Conference Board. She serves as a member of the executive committee for the National Bureau of Economic Research's conference on research on income and wealth. She is a senior policy scholar at Georgetown University McDonough School of Business Centre for Business and Public Policy where she focuses on economics of growth and innovation as well as fiscal and monetary policies. In addition to thes...

#197

Iris Bohnet

#37427

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Iris Bohnet is a Swiss behavioral economist, and the Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government and the Academic Dean at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Her work focuses primarily on issues of gender, trust, and social preferences.

#198

Lucia A. Reisch

Lucia A. Reisch

#43311

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Lucia A. Reisch is a German behavioural economist and social scientist by training and the El-Erian Professor of Behavioural Economics and Policy at the University of Cambridge since September 2021. Since April 2022 the Professorship is located at the Cambridge Judge Business School. Before joining Cambridge, she was a professor at Copenhagen Business School. She also holds an honorary Leibniz Professorship from Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research in Bremen as well as a Guest Professorship from Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen.

#199

Deborah Freund

#15804

Overall Influence

Deborah Anne Freund is an American university administrator and academic specializing in health economics. She was the president of Claremont Graduate University from 2010 to 2015. Education Freund received a Bachelor of Arts in Classics from Washington University in St. Louis in 1973, a Master of Public Health in medical care administration in 1975, a Master of Arts in Applied Economics in 1975, and a PhD in Economics in 1980, the latter three degrees all from the University of Michigan.

#200

Rachel Griffith

Rachel Griffith

#46995

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Dame Rachel Susan Griffith is a British-American academic and educator. She is professor of economics at the University of Manchester and a research director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Griffith was president of the European Economic Association for 2015, making her the first woman to hold the position. She was also joint managing editor of The Economic Journal between 2011 and 2017.

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