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List of the most influential female people in Economics,

#401

Natalia Zubarevich

#25357

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Natalya Vasilyevna Zubarevich is a Russian economist-geographer specializing on the socio-economic development of the regions. She has been the professor of the Department of Economic And Social Geography of Russia of the Moscow State University since 2005.

#402

Beatrice Cherrier

#100542

Overall Influence

Beatrice Cherrier is a historian of economics and associate professor at CREST, CNRS, and ENSAE/Ecole Polytechnique, France. Her research interests include the history of economics since World War II. She has been cited in the popular media on several topics in the history of economics, including theories of discrimination, the rise of the MIT economics department, and the representation of women in the economics profession.

#403

Anita Elberse

#9738

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Anita Elberse is a Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, specializing in the entertainment, media and sports sectors. Trained as an economist and econometrician, according to The Wall Street Journal, she "takes the same statistically rigorous approach to entertainment and cultural industries that sabermetricians do to baseball" in her scholarly research. She has published more than four dozen in-depth case studies on companies and personalities in the world of entertainment, and one book, “Blockbusters: Hit-making, Risk-taking, and the Big Business of Entertainment.”

#404

Sarah Byford

#104174

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Sarah Byford is economist André professor of health economics and director of King's Health Economics at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience. She specializes in the economic evaluation of mental health services and clinical and economic evaluation of complex interventions, including services for children and adolescents.

#405

Martha Farnsworth Riche

#104550

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Martha Farnsworth Riche is an American economist who directed the United States Census Bureau from 1994 to 1998. Early life and pre-census career Riche was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She studied labor economics at the University of Michigan, where she earned a bachelor's degree in economics in 1960. She stayed at Michigan for another year, earning a master's degree in 1961. Being female made her unable to obtain interviews at the banking firms she had been aiming for, so instead she worked on productivity statistics at the Bureau of Labor Statistics from 1961 to 1976.

#406

Lisa Cameron

#100496

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Lisa Cameron is an Australian economist currently working as a Professional Research Fellow at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne. Biography Lisa Cameron earned her Bachelor of Commerce at the University of Melbourne in 1989, where she graduated with first class honours. This was followed by completing a Masters of Commerce degree in 1992, as well as a Graduate Diploma in Indonesian Modern Language in 1999. Thereafter, Cameron completed a M.A. and subsequently proceeded to complete a PhD in economics at Princeton University. While a...

#407

Mandy Ryan

#152550

Overall Influence

#408

Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe

#133358

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé is a German economist who currently works as a professor of economics at Columbia University. Schmitt-Grohé's research has been focused on macroeconomics as well as fiscal and monetary policy in open and closed economies. In 2004 she was awarded the Bernacer prize, for her research of monetary stabilization policies.

#409

Anat Admati

#108929

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Anat Ruth Admati is an economist and currently the George G.C. Parker Professor of Finance and Economics at Stanford Graduate School of Business. In 2014, Time listed her as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.

#410

Jolande Sap

#94008

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Johanna Catharina Maria "Jolande" Sap is a former Dutch politician and former educator and civil servant. A member of GroenLinks , she replaced Wijnand Duyvendak as a member of the House of Representatives on 3 September 2008, after his resignation. She had temporarily been replacing Mariko Peters from the previous day who was on parental leave. From 16 December 2010 to 5 October 2012 she was party leader as well as parliamentary leader in the House of Representatives, replacing Femke Halsema who announced her retirement from politics as of that date.

#411

Paula Jarzabkowski

#126514

Overall Influence

Paula Jarzabkowski is a financial researcher and Professor of Strategic Management at the Bayes Business School, University of London. Biography Jarzabkowski worked as the Professor of Strategic Management at Aston Business School from 2007 to 2013. She joined the University of London in 2016. Jarzabkowski was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2020.

#412

Hilde Behrend

#104612

Overall Influence

1917 - 2000 (83 years)

Hilde Behrend was an economist known for her research into industrial relations and the motivational differences between workers. Background and education Hilde Behrend was born on 13 August 1917 in Berlin, Germany. Her father, Felix Wilhelm Behrend, was a physics and mathematics teacher and well-known educationalist, who was demoted and dismissed by the Nazis due to his Jewish heritage. Her brother, Felix Behrend, became a mathematician.

#413

Leemore Dafny

#103669

Overall Influence

Leemore S. Dafny is an American economist currently the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a member of the faculty at John F. Kennedy School of Government. She graduated from Harvard College and received a PhD in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

#414

Anne de Bruin

#55619

Overall Influence

Anne Marguerite de Bruin is a socio-economist and Professor of Economics in the School of Economics and Finance at the Albany campus of Massey University, New Zealand. Her research focuses on social enterprises and women's entrepreneurship and innovation.

#415

Karen R. Polenske

#96904

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Karen Rosel Polenske is an American regional economist specialized in energy, environmental, and infrastructure analyses, and input-output accounts and models, particularly at the subnational scale. She is currently the Peter de Florez Professor of Regional Political Economy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .

#416

Sylvie Brunel

#93690

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Sylvie Brunel is a French economist and geographer, best known for her work for Action Against Hunger from 1989 to 2002, and her various publications in Que sais-je?. She was awarded the Legion of Honour in 2002.

#417

Karen Davis

#120467

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Karen Davis is president of The Commonwealth Fund, a national philanthropy engaged in independent research on health and social policy issues. Davis is an economist, with a career in public policy and research. Before joining The Commonwealth Fund, she served as chairman of the Department of Health Policy and Management at The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, where she also held an appointment as professor of economics. She served as deputy assistant secretary for health policy in the Department of Health and Human Services from 1977–1980, becoming the first woman to head a U.S. public ...

#418

Raquel Fernández

#135456

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Raquel Fernández is an economist and currently the Julius Silver, Roslyn S. Silver and Enid Silver Winslow Professor of Economics at New York University. She is also a fellow of the Econometric Society.

#419

Eva Mueller

#116451

Overall Influence

1920 - 2006 (86 years)

Eva Mueller was a Professor of Economics and Research Scientist at the University of Michigan. She studied consumer behavior in the United States and economic demography in low-income countries, particularly the relationship between income change and fertility change. She also made contributions to survey methodology, including methods of collecting employment statistics and time-use data.

#420

Aysit Tansel

#141674

Overall Influence

Aysit Tansel is a Turkish economist and Professor of Economics at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara. Her research revolves mainly around labour economics, with a focus on the economics of education. She ranks among the foremost Turkish economists in terms of research output.

#421

Montserrat Guillén

#107788

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Montserrat Guillén i Estany is a Spanish statistician and economist, whose research interests include actuarial science, fraud detection, and kernel density estimation. She is a professor and director of the Riskcenter in the department of econometrics at the University of Barcelona.

#422

Jyoti Kirit Parikh

#108594

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Jyoti Kirit Parikh is the current Executive Director of Integrated Research and Action for Development . She was a Member of the Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change –India and is a recipient of Nobel Peace Prize awarded To IPCC authors in 2007. She was a Senior Professor at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research , Mumbai. She also worked at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis , Austria and served as a senior energy consultant at the National Institution for Transforming India . She was a visiting professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies of UNU, Tokyo .

#423

Sandra McNally

#108429

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Sandra McNally is an Irish economist, who is Professor of Economics at the University of Surrey and works at the Centre for Economic Performance , at the London School of Economics . Her research interests include economic evaluation of government policies in schools and further education and labor market returns to education and training.

#424

Christine Whitehead

#140305

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Christine Whitehead is a British Academic and Emeritus Professor of Housing Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is also the Deputy Directory of LSE London, an urban research group at London School of Economics and Political Science

#425

Nancy Marion

#96511

Overall Influence

Nancy Peregrim Marion is the George J. Records 1956 Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College, where she conducts research in a "variety of topics in international macroeconomics, including financial crises in emerging markets, international reserve holdings in East Asia, international risk sharing, and policy volatility in developing countries."

#426

Xiaolan Fu

#109724

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Professor Xiaolan Fu is a British-based Chinese economist, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. She is the Founding Director of the Technology and Management Centre for Development . She is a Professor of Technology and International Development and Fellow of Green Templeton College at the University of Oxford.

#427

Petia Topalova

#148427

Overall Influence

Petia Topalova is the Deputy Chief in the Emerging Economies Unit of the European Department of the International Monetary Fund and Mission Chief for the Slovak Republic. She is also a research economist with publications in development and trade economics.

#428

Jean Olson Lanjouw

#115242

Overall Influence

1962 - 2005 (43 years)

Jean Olson "Jenny" Lanjouw was an American economist, economics professor at Yale University and associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley's Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics. She undertook empirical work on poverty and economic development, developed statistical tools to project poverty and inequalities at the local level, and a policy system to provide access to drugs for developing countries without violating drug manufacturers' patents.

#429

Hooi Hooi Lean

#125702

Overall Influence

Hooi Hooi Lean is a Malaysian economist and a professor at the School of Social Sciences in the Economics program at University of Science, Malaysia. Lean acts as an associate editor of Singapore Economic Review, Capital Market Review and Frontiers in Energy and an editor of J. of Asian Finance, Economics and Business and East Asian J. of Business Management.

#430

Catherine Waddams

#68470

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Catherine Mary Waddams is a British economist and academic, who specialises in industrial organization, privatisation, regulation, and competition. Since 2000, she has been Professor of Regulation at Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia. From 2000 to 2011, she served as the first director of the Centre of Competition and Regulation at the University of East Anglia.

#431

Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson

#100186

Overall Influence

1909 - 2003 (94 years)

Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson MBE was an English economist. Early life and education Marjorie Eileen Henrietta Grice-Hutchinson was born in 1909, in Eastbourne, Sussex, the daughter of George Grice-Hutchinson and Edith Louise Eastwick Grice-Hutchinson. Her father was a solicitor. When her father retired to Málaga in 1920, Grice-Hutchinson went with him.

#432

Arleen A. Leibowitz

#162639

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

#433

Gabrielle Demange

#105142

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Gabrielle Demange is a French economist and currently a professor at the Paris School of Economics. She is on the council of the Econometric Society and a fellow on the CEPR. She was the co-editor of Economic Theory from 1998 to 2004 and an associate editor of the Review of Economic Design. She is a honorary international member of the American Academy of Arts and Science.

#434

Mariacristina De Nardi

#126912

Overall Influence

Mariacristina De Nardi is an economist who was born in Treviso, Italy. She is the Thomas Sargent Professor at the University of Minnesota since 2019. In 2013, De Nardi was appointed professor of economics at University College London; since September 2018, she has been a senior scholar at the Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Her research interests include macroeconomics, public economics, wealth distribution, savings, social-insurance reform, social security, household economics, health shocks, medical expenses, fertility and human capital.

#435

Enrica Detragiache

#153841

Overall Influence

Enrica Detragiache is the head of the Germany Desk of the International Monetary Fund , and the assistant director of the IMF's European division. She formerly taught Economics at Johns Hopkins University, and has published over 70 research papers and articles. Her research covers topics such as labour migration, financial crises, development economics, and corporate finance.

#436

Siwan Anderson

#81492

Overall Influence

Siwan Anderson is a Canadian economist and professor at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia . Her area of focus is on development economics with a micro-level approach focusing on institutions in developing countries, and also gender economics focusing on the role of women in the economy. Siwan Anderson is also an Associate of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research , an Associate of the Theoretical Research in Development Economics , a Fellow of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development , and a Faculty Associate of the Center for Effective Global Action .

#437

Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell

#155105

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell is an economist and professor at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, tenured scientist at CSIC-IAE, MOVE research fellow, and a research fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics. She was an associate editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization and currently is a member of the London School of Economics-based World Well-Being Panel. She holds two PhDs in economics, one from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the other from the Tinbergen Institute and the University of Amsterdam.

#438

Polly Hill

#45398

Overall Influence

1914 - 2005 (91 years)

Polly Hill was a British social anthropologist of West Africa, and an Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Life and career Hill came from a family of distinguished academics – her father, A. V. Hill, had earned a Nobel prize in physiology and her mother Margaret Hill was a leading social reformer. Hill's maternal grandfather was economist John Neville Keynes, and maternal uncles were economist John Maynard Keynes and surgeon Geoffrey Keynes. Her brothers were the physiologist David Keynes Hill and the oceanographer Maurice Hill, while her sister Janet married the immunologist John Herber...

#439

Edeltraud Günther

Edeltraud Günther

#91727

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Edeltraud 'Edel' Günther is a German business and sustainability assessment researcher, and university educator. Günther is currently the Director of the United Nations University Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources while on leave from the Technische Universität Dresden, where she has held the Chair of Business Management, esp. Sustainability Management and Environmental Accounting since 1996. She has also undertaken multiple international visiting professorships, and is the founding member of the Centre for Performance and Policy Research in Sustainabilit...

#440

Ingrid Woolard

#135383

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Ingrid Woolard is dean at Stellenbosch University's faculty of economic and management sciences and professor of economics at Stellenbosch University. She was a professor of economics at the University of Cape Town and a Research Associate of the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit . Her research focuses primarily on Labour markets, social protection and assistance, poverty and inequality, tax policy, fiscal policy, unemployment, and survey methodology.

#441

Magda Kandil

#139217

Overall Influence

1958 - 2020 (62 years)

Magda ElSayed Kandil was an Egyptian economist, and most notably the chief economist and head of the research and statistics department at the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates. Previously she was a senior economist at the IMF and a professor at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

#442

Rebecca Diamond

#73841

Overall Influence

Rebecca Diamond is Class of 1988 Professor of Economics at Stanford Graduate School of Business and an associate editor of Econometrica and American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. Her research areas include urban economics and labor economics.

#443

Ann Dryden Witte

#123178

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Ann Dryden Witte is an American economist, known for her work on "a variety of interesting and eclectic problems" and as a "prolific author of books, monographs, and professional articles". She is a professor emerita of economics at Wellesley College, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

#444

Elisabet Rutström

#130061

Overall Influence

Eva Elisabet Rutström is a Swedish born experimental economist, and an accomplished field researcher in individual decision making and interactive group behaviors. Over the last 40 years she has worked as an instructor and researcher at universities in Canada, the United States, and Sweden. She currently serves as the program director of field experiments at Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business.

#445

Caroline Saunders

#162437

Overall Influence

Caroline Mary Saunders is a New Zealand academic, and as of 2020 is a Distinguished Professor at Lincoln University, specialising in environmental economics. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.

#446

Deborah Schofield

Deborah Schofield

#115516

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Deborah Schofield is an Australian academic in the Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University where she is the director of the Centre for Economic Impacts of Genomic Medicine Background Schofield was born in 1965 in Wahroonga, Sydney. She has worked for the Australian Government, in academia and clinical practice and studied health microsimulation modelling at National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling.

#447

Catherine Samary

#35749

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Catherine Samary born in 1945, is a French researcher in political economy, specialized on the former Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe. She received her Phd in economics in 1986 : her thesis on the contradictory logics of the reforms in the Yugoslav self-management system was published in 1988 under the title « Le Marché contre l’autogestion - l’expérience yougoslave » with a preface from Ernest Mandel .

#448

Iulie Aslaksen

#139603

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Iulie Margrethe Nicolaysen Aslaksen is a Norwegian economist and Senior Researcher at Statistics Norway. She was a member of the Petroleum Price Board from 1990 to 2000. She is an expert on energy and environmental economics, including petroleum economics, climate policy and economics and sustainable development. She is cand.oecon. from the University of Oslo in 1981 and dr.polit. from 1990. She has been a visiting researcher and Fulbright Fellow at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley, and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Oslo. She was a member o...

#449

Mary Bowman

#116190

Overall Influence

1908 - 2002 (94 years)

Mary Jean Bowman was an American economist who mostly focused on education economics. Personal life and education Mary Jean Bowman was born to mother Mary K. Kauffman and father Harold Martin Bowman on October 17, 1908 in New York City. She was raised in Newton Centre, Massachusetts. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College in 1930. She received her Master of Arts degree from Radcliffe College two years later and her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1938. She relocated to Chicago, Illinois with her husband, C. Arnold Anderson, in 1949. The two were married on July 18, 1942 in Iowa City, Iowa.

#450

Maureen O'Hara

#115064

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Maureen Patricia O'Hara is an American financial economist. O'Hara is the Robert W. Purcell Professor of Management, a professor of finance, and acting director in Graduate Studies at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. She has won numerous awards and grants for her research, served on numerous boards, served as an editor for numerous finance journals, and chaired the dissertations of numerous students. In addition, she is well known as the author of Market Microstructure Theory. She was the first female president of the American Finance Association. ...

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