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List of the most influential people in Economics,

#1651

Lenos Trigeorgis

#28700

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Lenos Trigeorgis is the Bank of Cyprus Chair Professor of Finance in the School of Economics and Management, University of Cyprus. He is considered a leading authority on capital budgeting and strategy, having pioneered the field of real options, and having authored several books on related topics.

#1652

Wolfgang Pesendorfer

#44475

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Wolfgang Pesendorfer is a professor of economics at Princeton University. He specializes in choice theory, game theory, and political economy. Selected works Faruk Gul and Wolfgang Pesendorfer, Temptation and Self-Control, Econometrica 2001.Faruk Gul and Wolfgang Pesendorfer, Self-Control and the Theory of Consumption, Econometrica 2004.Faruk Gul and Wolfgang Pesendorfer, Random Expected Utility, Econometrica 2006.

#1653

Ivo Welch

#36601

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Ivo Welch, a German-born economist and finance academic. He is the J. Fred Weston Professor of Finance at UCLA Anderson School of Management. He completed his BA in computer science in 1985 at Columbia University, and both his MBA and PhD in finance at the University of Chicago.

#1654

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 ...

#1655

Kenneth Ronald French

#84652

Overall Influence

#1656

Charles I. Jones

#64264

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Charles "Chad" Irving Jones is STANCO 25 Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He studies growth theory and economic development. Education Jones earned his AB from Harvard University in 1989 and his PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993.

#1657

Wolfgang Stolper

#61693

Overall Influence

1912 - 2002 (90 years)

Wolfgang Friedrich Stolper was an American economist. Stolper was born in Vienna, the eldest son of economists Gustav Stolper and Toni Stolper. In 1925 the family moved to Berlin and emigrated in 1933 to the United States. In 1938 Stolper completed his economics studies at Harvard University. He was a student of Joseph Schumpeter.

#1658

Carlo Carraro

#42258

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Carlo Carraro is the chancellor of the University of Venice for the three-year period 2009–2012, with a two-year extension of his mandate in accordance to the Gelmini University Law bringing it up to summer 2014. He is also professor of environmental economics at the same university. He is director of the Sustainable Development Programme of the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei and director of the Climate Impacts and Policy Division of the Euro-Mediterranean Center for Climate Change . In 2008, Carraro was elected vice-chair of the Working Group III and member of the bureau of the Nobel Laureate ...

#1659

Boyce Watkins

#13533

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Boyce D. Watkins is an American author, political analyst, social influencer and ex-academic. In addition to publishing scholarly articles on finance and investing, Watkins is an advocate for education, economic empowerment, and social justice, and has made regular appearances in various national media outlets, including CNN, Good Morning America, MSNBC, Fox News, BET, NPR, Essence, USA Today, Today, ESPN, The Tom Joyner Morning Show, and CBS Sports. He was also a frequent guest on The Wendy Williams Experience radio program, and remains a frequent contributor to the Grio.

#1660

Michael R. Strain

#22315

Overall Influence

Michael R. Strain is an American economist. He is currently the Director of Economic Policy Studies and the Arthur F. Burns Scholar in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also Professor of Practice in the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, a research fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics, and a columnist for Project Syndicate. Strain's research focuses on labor economics, macroeconomics, public finance, and social policy.

#1661

Joshua Gans

#33024

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Joshua Gans holds the Jeffrey Skoll Chair in Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Until 2011, he was an economics professor at Melbourne Business School in Australia. His research focuses on competition policy and intellectual property protection. He is the author of several textbooks and policy books, as well as numerous articles in economics journals. He operates two blogs: one on economic policy, and another on economics and parenting.

#1662

Shlomo Benartzi

#36105

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Shlomo Benartzi is an American behavioral economist, known for his research on retirement savings and the Save More Tomorrow nudge. Benartzi is currently a Professor Emeritus at the UCLA Anderson School of Management in Los Angeles, California.

#1663

Bernard Guerrien

#64472

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Bernard Guerrien is a French economist and the author of La Théorie des jeux , Dictionnaire d'analyse économique , and La théorie économique néoclassique. macroéconomie, théorie des jeux, tome 2 .

#1664

Daniel Bernhofen

#60711

Overall Influence

Daniel Bernhofen is a professor of international economics in the School of International Service at American University. He previously was professor of international economics and director of the Globalisation and Economic Policy Research Centre at the University of Nottingham. Bernhofen's research has included work that uses the opening of Japan to foreign trade in the 19th century to test comparative advantage and international trade theory.

#1665

Alessandro Roncaglia

#48958

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Alessandro Roncaglia is an Italian economist. He was professor of economics at the Sapienza University of Rome from 1981 to 2017. Awards and honors In 2002 the Italian edition of his The wealth of ideas, later published in an expanded edition in English, has won the Jerome Blanqui Award of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought.

#1666

Manoj Pant

#41078

Overall Influence

Manoj Pant is an Indian expert in International Trade. He is the Director of Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, since August 2017. Previously, he was a full-time professor at the Centre for International Trade and Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, where he taught international trade theory. Before that he taught economics at Delhi University.

#1667

Lambert T. Koch

#44531

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Lambert T. Koch is a German economist and university professor who has published extensively. Koch has served, since 2008, as rector of the University of Wuppertal. Life Lambert Tobias Koch was born during the tail end of the "Wirtschaftswunder" years at Hering, a small town in the hills east of Darmstadt. His father was a Catholic Theology professor and, for more than twenty years, head of the Cathedral School at Würzburg. Koch spent his childhood in Würzburg.

#1668

Peter Linneman

#28542

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Peter Linneman is an American academic who is the principal of Linneman Associates, the CEO and founder of American Land Fund and of KL Realty. He previously served as the Albert Sussman Professor of Real Estate, Finance, and Public Policy at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, retiring in December 2010. Linneman served as the founding chairman of Wharton's Real Estate Department, and was the Director of Wharton's Samuel Zell and Robert Lurie Real Estate Center for 13 years. He is also the founding co-editor of the Wharton Real Estate Review. Li...

#1669

John Lott

#29288

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

John Richard Lott Jr. is an American economist, political commentator, and gun rights advocate. Lott was formerly employed at various academic institutions and at the American Enterprise Institute conservative think tank. He is the former president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, a nonprofit he founded in 2013. He worked in the Office of Justice Programs within the U.S. Department of Justice under the Donald Trump administration from October 2020 to January 2021. Lott holds a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA.

#1670

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.

#1671

Ulrich Witt

#46542

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Ulrich Witt is a German economist and former Director of the Evolutionary Economics Group at the Max Planck Institute of Economics in Jena . He also holds an honorary professorship at the Friedrich Schiller University. His areas of research include evolutionary economics, long-term trends in economic development, as well as transformations that economic institutions, production, and consumption activities undergo over time.

#1672

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.

#1673

Lasse Heje Pedersen

#42234

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Lasse Heje Pedersen is a Danish financial economist known for his research on liquidity risk and asset pricing. He is Professor of Finance at the Copenhagen Business School. Before that, he held the position of a Professor of Finance and Alternative Investments at the New York University Stern School of Business. He has also served in the monetary policy panel and liquidity working group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and is a principal at AQR Capital Management.

#1674

Mohammad Tabibian

Mohammad Tabibian

#20819

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Seyed Mohammad Tabibian is an Iranian economist who served under the administration of Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani as deputy director of the Planning and Budget Organization. He left to help found the Institute for Management and Planning studies in Tehran as of the early 1990s. He has also taught at the Isfahan University of Technology. Tabibian was head of groups made First Five Year Plan and Second Five Year Plan of Iran .

#1675

Vladimir Kvint

#22270

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Vladimir L’vovich Kvint is a Russian-American economist and strategist, and President of the International Academy of Emerging Markets. Since 2007, he has been the Chair of the Department of Economic and Financial Strategy at the Moscow School of Economics of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. Kvint is also the Head of the Center for Strategic Studies at Institute of Complex Systems Mathematical Research of this University. He is a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

#1676

Dominique Guellec

#32957

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Dominique Guellec is a French economist. He formerly held the post of chief economist at the European Patent Office . He is senior economist at Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development where he is in charge of the department monitoring innovation policies.

#1677

Carl Walters

#38904

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Carl Walters is an American-born Canadian biologist known for his work involving fisheries stock assessments, the adaptive management concept, and ecosystem modeling. Walters has been a professor of Zoology and Fisheries at the University of British Columbia since 1969. He is one of the main developers of the ecological modelling software Ecopath. His most recent work focuses on how to adjust human behaviors in environments that are full of uncertainty. He is a recent recipient of the Volvo Environment Prize . In 2019, Dr. Walters became a Member of the Order of British Columbia.

#1678

Tore Ellingsen

#65430

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Tore Ellingsen is a Norwegian economist active in Sweden. Ellingsen graduated as siviløkonom from Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen in 1985, and received a Ph.D. from London School of Economics in 1991. Since 1991 he is active at the Stockholm School of Economics, from 1996 as docent and from 2000 as professor of economics. Ellingsen was the first recipient of the Assar Lindbeck Medal.

#1679

John Whitefield Kendrick

#33535

Overall Influence

1917 - 2009 (92 years)

John Whitefield Kendrick was a pioneer in productivity measurement and economic accounting. Kendrick worked as an economist from 1946 to 1953 at the Office of Business Economics, the predecessor to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, and from 1955 to 1988 as a professor at George Washington University. In 1963 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

#1680

Edward J. Lopez

#46021

Overall Influence

Edward J. Lopez is the BB&T Distinguished Professor of Capitalism at Western Carolina University and President of the Public Choice Society. Biography Early life He received a B.S. in economics from Texas A&M University and his Ph.D. from George Mason University in 1997.

#1681

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.

#1682

M. Scott Taylor

M. Scott Taylor

#71878

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Michael Scott Taylor is a Canadian economist, who studies the interaction between international trade and environmental outcomes. He is currently the Canada Research Chair in International, Energy and Environmental Economics at the University of Calgary, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Fellow of the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics. He is also the recipient of an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel . In 2014, Scott Taylor was named fellow to the Royal Society of Canada .

#1683

Stephen Goldfeld

#42373

Overall Influence

1940 - 1995 (55 years)

Stephen Michael Goldfeld was a Princeton University economics professor and provost who served on the Council of Economic Advisers during the Carter administration. Goldfeld received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1960 at the age of twenty and a doctorate in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963 at the age of twenty three, when he joined the Princeton faculty. As an academic he specialized in financial institutions and in econometrics. He was an associate editor of the American Economic Review and other major economic journals. He died in 1995 at the...

#1684

Adam Lerrick

#56828

Overall Influence

Adam Lerrick is an American economist and government official currently serving as Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury, having previously been President Donald Trump's nominee for Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Finance. Lerrick has served as an economist at the American Enterprise Institute.

#1685

Ivan Png

#58815

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Dr. Ivan Png Paak Liang is a Singaporean economist and academic. He is a Distinguished Professor in the School of Business and Department of Economics at the National University of Singapore. Png was previously a faculty member at the UCLA Anderson School of Management from 1985 to 1996, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 1993 to 1996.

#1686

Robert Johnson

#50840

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Robert A. Johnson is the Executive Director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking and regularly contributes to NewDeal 2.0 with his "FinanceSeer Column." He also formerly traded currency on Wall Street under George Soros.

#1687

Arthur Lewbel

#60416

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Arthur Lewbel is the inaugural Patrick Roche Professor of Economics at Boston College, and is known in the fields of applied microeconomics and econometrics. He is an editor of Econometric Theory, former co-editor of the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, a fellow of the Econometric Society, a fellow of the Journal of Econometrics, holds a Multa Scripsit award, and is ranked number 30 on Coupe's list of top economists in the world by publication. Lewbel's economic research is mainly in the areas of micro econometrics and in consumer demand analysis.

#1688

Kashim Shettima

#11660

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Kashim Shettima Mustapha is a Nigerian politician who is the 15th and current vice president of Nigeria. He previously served as senator for Borno Central from 2019 to 2023, and as the governor of Borno State from 2011 to 2019.

#1689

David Miles

#30351

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

David Kenneth Miles is a British economist. Born in Swansea, he has spent his working life in London, in teaching, business and the public sector. He is a professor at Imperial College London, and was Chief UK Economist of Morgan Stanley bank from October 2004 to May 2009. He was appointed to the Bank of England's interest-rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee from 1 June 2009 to June 2012 and again from June 2012 to 31 August 2015, before being replaced by Gertjan Vlieghe. According to the Bank of England, "As an economist he has focused on the interaction between financial markets and the wider economy.".

#1690

David A. Jaeger

#44920

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

David Allen Jaeger is a professor of economics at the University of St Andrews, a Research Fellow at IZA Institute of Labor Economics, and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. He was previously a professor of economics at the CUNY Graduate Center and a Research Fellow in the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is the author of numerous papers in labor economics, the economics of conflict, and econometrics, including a widely cited paper on the consequences of using weak instruments in instrumental variable estimation. He completed his B.A. in economics at Williams College in 1986 and his Ph.D.

#1691

László Garai

#13490

Overall Influence

1935 - 2019 (84 years)

László Garai was a scholar of psychology: studies theoretical psychology, social psychology and economic psychology. Early life Garai was born in Budapest. He graduated in philosophy and psychology from the Faculty of Arts of Budapest University .

#1692

Douglas Staiger

#35609

Overall Influence

Douglas O. Staiger is the John French Professor in Economics at Dartmouth College. His research focuses on the economics of education and of healthcare, and on statistical methods in economics. Staiger is also a co-founder of ArborMetrix, a healthcare analytics company.

#1693

Ali Rahnema

#24808

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Ali Rahnema is an Iranian economist and historian. He is a professor of economics at the American University of Paris. Rahnema is the son of former Iranian diplomat and politician Hamid Rahnema. Education Rahnema has a BA from Lewis and Clark College, MA and MALD degrees from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University, and a Doctorat de Troisième Cycle from the Université de Paris I - Sorbonne.

#1694

Jagjit Chadha

#29646

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Jagjit Singh Chadha He is on secondment from his position as Professor and Chair in Money and Banking in the Department of Economics at the University of Kent. He is Professor of Commerce at Gresham College and was Chair of the Money, Macro and Finance Research Group and was previously a specialist adviser to the Treasury Select Committee. He is also a part-time, Visiting Professor of Economics at Cambridge University.

#1695

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.

#1696

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.

#1697

Bertrand Lemennicier

#39459

Overall Influence

1943 - 2019 (76 years)

Bertrand Lemennicier was a French economist, expert in public choice economics and economic analysis of law. He was a member of the American Economic Association as well as of the Mont Pelerin Society. Charismatic and iconoclastic, he taught generations of future finance and law professionals to reason as economists.

#1698

Werner Ploberger

#72341

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Werner Ploberger is an Austrian economist. He graduated in mathematics from the Vienna University of Technology. Beginning in 1997, he was a professor of economics at the University of Rochester. Effective July 1, 2006, he is professor of economics at Washington University in St. Louis. He is married to Gabriele Ploberger, and has a son.

#1699

Jay Shambaugh

#57411

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Jay C. Shambaugh is an American academic, economist, and government official who has served as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Treasury since January 2023.

#1700

Stanley Lebergott

#31377

Overall Influence

1918 - 2009 (91 years)

Stanley Lebergott was a prominent American government economist and professor emeritus of economics at Wesleyan University. Early life and family Lebergott was born in Detroit, Michigan, on July 22, 1918, and went to the University of Michigan, where he got both a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in economics in the late 1930s. He married Ruth Wellington in 1941, and they had two children , Karen and Steven. Steven died in 1995 but Lebergott's wife and daughter Karen outlived him.

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