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List of the most influential people in Economics,

#3901

Sipho Moyo

#139719

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

Sipho Moyo is a Zimbabwean economist. She is the "Director of Cabinet and Chief of Staff in the Office of the President", at the African Development Bank . She was appointed by Akinwumi Adesina, the President of the AfDB, and assumed office on 1 November 2019.

#3902

Joan Walters

#176942

Overall Influence

1925 - 2011 (86 years)

Joan G. Walters was a pioneer in the field of economics. Walters received her master's degree and doctorate from Harvard University. She became the first female professor at Fairfield University in 1963. She died July 31, 2011, at the age of 86.

#3903

Kaye Husbands Fealing

#130451

Overall Influence

Kaye Husbands Fealing is an American economist who is Dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech. She previously taught for 20 years at Williams College, served in several staff positions with the National Science Foundation, and chaired the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech. She is a former president of the National Economic Association.

#3904

David Folkerts-Landau

#52506

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

David Folkerts-Landau is a German born economist. He became member of the Deutsche Bank Group Executive Committee in 2012 and was named chief economist of Deutsche Bank on 1 June 2012. He is based in London.

#3905

Guido Bünstorf

#89819

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Guido Bünstorf is professor of Economics at the University of Kassel and head of the Economic Policy Research Group. Since 2010 he is also co-director of International Center for Higher Education Research . He has been research Professor at Leibniz Institute of Economic Research Halle since 2012 and a visiting professor at the University of Aalborg since 2013.

#3906

John B. Bryant

#131425

Overall Influence

1947 - 2020 (73 years)

John Bradbury Bryant was an American economist, and the Henry S. Fox, Sr. Professor Emeritus at Rice University. He had a PhD in Economics from Carnegie Mellon University and spent a portion of his life working for the Federal Reserve

#3907

Hans Schenk

#143954

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

E.J.J. Schenk is a Dutch professor emeritus of economics and fellow of the Tjalling C. Koopmans Research Institute at Utrecht University’s School of Economics of which he was founding director. He was a Crown-appointed independent member of the Social and Economic Council SER of the Netherlands from 2010 until 2018. With other financial economics specialists, and help of Triodos Bank, he founded the Sustainable Finance Lab in 2011.

#3908

Luigi Alberto Franzoni

#157715

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Luigi Alberto Franzoni is a full professor at the University of Bologna, Italy. He is a noted economics scholar in the field of law and economics, and has published extensively, especially in the fields of economic theory of settlements, law enforcement, tax amnesties, and intellectual property. , he is currently acting as Mundus Director of the international Ph.D. program “European Doctorate in Law and Economics”. In September 2014 he was elected as the president of the European Association of Law and Economics in the 31st annual conference of EALE in Aix-En-Province. He is currently acting as Mundus Director of the international Ph.D.

#3909

Joh Sung-wook

#160461

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Joh Sung-wook is a professor of finance at Seoul National University Business School with expertise in competition policy and corporate governance currently serving as the chairperson of Fair Trade Commission under President Moon Jae-in from 2019. She is the first woman to lead the South Korean antitrust agency since its creation in 1980s. Previously, she was also the first Korean woman to study doctorate-level economics at Harvard University as well as the first woman to join faculty of business schools at Korea University and most recently Seoul National University respectively.

#3910

Geoffrey H. Moore

#71959

Overall Influence

1914 - 2000 (86 years)

Geoffrey Hoyt Moore , whom The Wall Street Journal called "the father of leading indicators", spent several decades working on business cycles at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he helped build on the work of his mentors, Wesley Clair Mitchell and Arthur F. Burns. Moore also served as commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics from March 1969 to January 1973.

#3911

Patrick L. Brockett

#133259

Overall Influence

Patrick L. Brockett is an endowed Chaired Professor within the Information, Risk and Operations Management, Finance, and Mathematics departments at The University of Texas at Austin. He is the Director of the Risk Management and Insurance Program, Director for the Center of Risk Management and Insurance, and Director for the Minor/Certificate in Risk Management Program. He is also an Affiliated Faculty Member in the University of Texas- Austin Division of Statistics & Scientific Computation. He is known for his research in statistics, probability, actuarial science, quantitative methods in business and social sciences, and risk and insurance.

#3912

Harvey Weingarten

#123572

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Harvey Weingarten is a Canadian academic. He served as president of the University of Calgary from 2001 to 2009. He was previously the provost and Vice-president Academic of McMaster University. He is a psychology and medical researcher, and alumnus of McGill University and Yale University. He was also a professor the McMaster's department of psychology and dean of the university's faculty of science. He was the first Jew to serve as President of the University of Calgary.

#3913

John Donaldson

#143097

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

John B. Donaldson is an American economist and presently the Mario J. Gabelli Professor of Finance at Columbia Business School. His interests are in business and finance options, its asset pricing, business cycles and especially real economic impact on equilibrium prices. He has published his work in Econometrica, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Monetary Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Dynamics, and Review of Economic Studies.

#3914

Bas de Gaay Fortman

#90869

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Bastiaan "Bas" de Gaay Fortman is a retired Dutch politician and diplomat of the Political Party of Radicals and later the GreenLeft party and economist. Career before politics After attending public elementary education, he attended the Christian Gymnasium in the Hague, specialising in sciences. After graduating in 1956 he studied law and economics at the Free University of Amsterdam, receiving his Master of Law, and Doctorandus in Economy in 1963 cum laude. In the last four years of his study he taught Civil Law, Commercial Law and Political Economics. Following graduation he became a fellow at the Social Faculty of the Free University, and wrote his dissertation in Economics.

#3915

Claude Hillinger

#164939

Overall Influence

1930 - 2020 (90 years)

Claude Hillinger is a German American economist. He was a professor of economics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich from 1972 to 1995. Born in Berlin shortly before the Machtergreifung, Hillinger emigrated with his family to Turkey in 1937. He grew up living in Istanbul and Ankara until 1948, when he moved to New York City. Partly in evening courses, he attained his bachelor's degree and later an MBA from City College of New York in 1953 and 1959, respectively. He then went on to earn a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 1963. His dissertation, advised by Robert Bas...

#3916

David Swinton

#152952

Overall Influence

David Holmes Swinton is an economist and president emeritus of Benedict College. He was awarded the Samuel Z. Westerfield Award by the National Economic Association in 2005, and in 2007, he was inducted into the South Carolina Black Hall of Fame.

#3917

Craig James

#111074

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Craig James is an economist currently working as chief economist for CommSec. , according to The Australian, James was the third most quoted man in Australian media. Completing regular media appearances in Australia and internationally, his reports such as the iPod index and State of the States are often reported upon and often called a "user-friendly" economic outlook for average individuals.

#3918

Boris Groysberg

#92957

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Boris Groysberg is an American academic. He is the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Early life Boris Groysberg was born on December 4, 1971. He graduated from New York University in 1994. He earned a DBA from the Harvard Business School in 2002.

#3919

Luis Viceira

#177739

Overall Influence

Luis M. Viceira is an American economist currently the George E. Bates Professor at Harvard Business School. He graduated from Autonomous University of Madrid and Harvard University .

#3920

Paige Skiba

#99956

Overall Influence

Paige Marta Skiba is an American economist who is FedEx Research Professor Professor of Law and Professor of Economics at Vanderbilt University Law School, and an associate editor of the International Review of Law and Economics. She is an expert on the causes of consequences of consumer borrowing at high-interest rates, such as payday loans and pawnshop loans. She finds that these borrowers have few other options for credit, but often default on these loans after making expensive payments. During the COVID-19 recession, she was among a group of scholars of bankruptcy in the United States who...

#3921

John Sewel, Baron Sewel

#28903

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

John Buttifant Sewel, Baron Sewel, , is a British politician, life peer, and former academic. He served as Chairman of Committees of the House of Lords, its deputy speaker. He is also a former senior vice principal of the University of Aberdeen and a former parliamentary under-secretary of state.

#3922

Benjamin Hansen

#146558

Overall Influence

Benjamin Hansen is an American economist and the W. E. Miner Professor of Economics at University of Oregon. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow at IZA, and a Research Affiliate at the University of Chicago Crime Lab. He has contributed to the scientific study of cannabis and alcohol policy, as well as crime and labor economics.

#3923

Shatakshee Dhongde

#170722

Overall Influence

Shatakshee Ramesh Dhongde is an associate professor at the School of Economics, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Georgia Institute of Technology. She has provided research papers to the several institutions including the International Monetary Fund and the World Institute for Development Economics Research . Her work has also appeared in several academic journals including World Development.

#3924

Gerald Friedman

#175514

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Gerald Carl Friedman is an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He became nationally prominent during the 2016 U.S. presidential election after writing an analysis of Democratic Party candidate Bernie Sanders campaign's policies in which Friedman concluded that these policies would produce significant economic growth in the United States if they were enacted. Friedman also received strong backlash for these remarks, from editorial pundits and fellow academics.

#3925

Angelo Ranaldo

#171275

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Angelo Ranaldo is a Swiss economist. He has been a full professor and chair of finance and systemic risk at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland since April 2012. He is also the board member Swiss Institute of Banking and Finance and School of Finance at St. Gallen. Before joining the HSG, he served as economic advisor at Swiss National Bank. He holds a Ph.D. in economics and social science from University of Fribourg . He received both his bachelor and master's degrees in economics and finance from the University L. Bocconi .

#3926

George Marshall

#52404

Overall Influence

1904 - 2000 (96 years)

George Marshall was an American economist, political activist, and conservationist. He was an early leader of The Wilderness Society, a HUAC abolitionist, and later a leader of the Sierra Club. Early life and education George Marshall was the son of Louis Marshall, noted constitutional lawyer, supporter of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, and co-founder of the American Jewish Committee, and Florence Lowenstein. George grew up in Manhattan with his sister Ruth and brothers James and Robert AKA Bob. All four children attended Felix Adler's Ethical Culture School. Marshall continued his education at Columbia University, where he earned bachelor's and Master's degrees.

#3927

Yoo Seong-min

#107131

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Yoo Seong-min , also known as Yoo Seung-min, is a South Korean economist and politician. Yoo is former a member of the Korean Parliament and was the Bareun Party's presidential nominee in the 2017 South Korean presidential election. He is the son of late Daegu court chief, attorney and Member of Parliament, Yoo Soo-ho for Junggu of Daegu.

#3928

Robert Morris

#127437

Overall Influence

1943 - 2022 (79 years)

Robert John Morris, FRHistS , known professionally as R. J. Morris, was an English historian and Emeritus Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Edinburgh. Life and career Morris studied politics, philosophy and economics at Keble College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1965. He spent the following three years completing graduate study at Nuffield College, Oxford, and obtained a doctorate of philosophy from the university. In 1968, he joined the Department of Economic History in the Social Science Faculty of Edinburgh University and taught there until he retired, eventually being appointed professor of economic and social history.

#3929

Howard J. Wall

#102873

Overall Influence

Howard J. Wall is an American economist who is the director of the Hammond Institute for Free Enterprise at Lindenwood University, St. Charles, Missouri. He is also a research scholar at the Show-Me Institute, a think tank in St. Louis, Missouri. Wall was previously a vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, and taught at West Virginia University and Birkbeck College, University of London.

#3930

David Thesmar

#178193

Overall Influence

#3931

Rajani Kannepalli Kanth

Rajani Kannepalli Kanth

#105477

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Rajani Kannepalli Kanth is a professor, economist, philosopher, and social thinker. Though born in India, he is a US citizen and has resided overseas for most of his life. His major research interests lie in the fields of Economics, Social Theory and Policy, and Women's Issues. His works have received positive endorsements from iconic intellectuals such as Ravi Batra, Roy Bhaskar, Noam Chomsky, Geoff Harcourt, Robert Heilbroner, John M. Hobson, Jonathan Joseph, Tony Lawson, Ali Mazrui, John McMurtry, Roger Owen, Warren Samuels, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Paul Sweezy, and Immanuel Wallerstein.

#3932

Martin Glaum

#88787

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Martin Glaum is a German economist and author and has held the Otto Beisheim Endowed Chair of International Accounting at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management since 2014. Before this he held the Chair of International Management, Accounting and Auditing at the University of Giessen in Giessen, Germany. Until 1999 he was a Professor of International Management at the Viadrina European University in Frankfurt . He was born in Wetzlar, Germany.

#3933

Yang Jingnian

#132646

Overall Influence

1908 - 2016 (108 years)

Yang Jingnian was a Chinese economist and translator from Miluo, Hunan Province. In 1932, Yang attended National Chengchi University in the Administration department. Graduating in 1936, he joined the Nankai University economic research institute. Nine years later, in 1945, he studied politics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, specializing in economics. In 1948, Yang earned a D.Phil. from Oxford, and that same year he became a professor at Nankai University.

#3934

Paul Fisher

#115029

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Paul Gregory Fisher is a British economist, who left the Bank of England in July 2016 after 26 years service. In September 2016 he was appointed chair of the London Bullion Market Association and in December 2016, he became a non-executive director at the UK Debt Management Office. Fisher has been a visiting professor at Richmond, The American International University in London since 2012; and is a senior research fellow in the new DAFM Centre of the Business School at King's College London. He was chair of the board of trustees at the London Institute of Banking and Finance, from 2011 to ...

#3935

Peter Oppenheimer

#101182

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Peter Morris Oppenheimer is an economist and fellow of Christ Church, Oxford, with a particular interest in Russian economic policy. Appointed in the late 1960s, his work focuses on financial markets, the economics of transition and energy. He has also worked as Chief Economist at Shell.

#3936

Chris Roush

#115330

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Chris Roush is a journalism professor and author in the United States, He is the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He previously was the Walter E. Hussman, Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at University of North Carolina.

#3937

Joan Sardà i Dexeus

#132777

Overall Influence

1910 - 1995 (85 years)

Joan Sardà i Dexeus, was a Spanish lawyer, economist and author, whose work inspired the Stabilization Plan in Francoist Spain in 1959 that led to the Spanish miracle of 1959–1973. Education Born in Barcelona on April 13, 1910, Sardà obtained his secondary education diploma from the Instituto General y Técnico de Barcelona in 1927 and then went on to study Law at the University of Barcelona. While he was studying law, he developed a great interest for economics, leading him to become a regular contributor on economic subjects for the newspaper L'Opinió, and eventually to become part of the editing team of the magazine Economia i Finances.

#3938

J. Doyne Farmer

#178473

Overall Influence

#3939

Teppo Felin

#178558

Overall Influence

#3940

Vladislav Inozemtsev

#73874

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Vladislav Leonidovich Inozemtsev is a Russian academician who is the director of the Moscow-based Centre for Research on Post-Industrial Societies, a nonprofit think tank. He is a professor and the chair at the Department of World Economy, Faculty of Public Governance, Moscow State Lomonosov University. Inozemtsev is also Russian Media Studies Project Special Advisor at the Washington-based Middle East Media Research Institute

#3941

Pabitra Kumar Giri

#162188

Overall Influence

1955 - 2010 (55 years)

Pabitra Kumar Giri was an Indian urban economist, who during 1998–2010, served as the Director of the Centre for Urban Economic Studies at the University of Calcutta in Kolkata, India. Education He graduated from the Scottish Church College, and the University of Calcutta, from where he earned his doctorate in economics.

#3942

Ryszard Czerniawski

#111053

Overall Influence

1952 - 2019 (67 years)

Ryszard Waldemar Czerniawski was a Polish lawyer and economist. Biography He studied Law at the University of Warsaw and international trade at SGH Warsaw School of Economics. He worked as a journalist from 1976 to 1990, first at the Polish Press Agency and then at the weekly Prawo i Życie . In 2008, he received a Doctor of Laws degree from Lazarski University and in 2015 habilitation from University of Białystok.

#3943

Erik S. Reinert

#178592

Overall Influence

#3944

Rhema Vaithianathan

Rhema Vaithianathan

#104349

Overall Influence

Professor Rhema Vaithianathan is a New Zealand academic who specialises in the field of health economics, and big data. She is a Professor in the School of Economics at Auckland University of Technology and is a co-director of the Centre for Social Data Analytics within that school.

#3945

Johannes Haushofer

#178636

Overall Influence

Johannes Haushofer is an economist and professor of economics at the Department of Economics, Stockholm University. He was previously an assistant professor of psychology and public affairs at Princeton University.

#3946

William F. Maloney

#122414

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

William F. Maloney is Chief Economist for the Latin America and Caribbean region in the World Bank Group. Previously he was Chief Economist for Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions, and Trade and Competitiveness; he was also Global Lead on Innovation and Productivity. Prior to the Bank, he was an assistant professor of Economics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and then Lead Economist in the Office of the Chief Economist for Latin America until 2009. From 2009 to 2014, he was Lead Economist in the Development Economics Research Group. From 2011 to 2014, he was visiting pr...

#3947

Ragui Assaad

#153745

Overall Influence

Ragui A. Assaad is an Egyptian economist and Professor of Planning and Public Affairs at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs . His research interests include labour economics, inequality and the economics of education. He ranks among the most prominent economists of Egypt.

#3948

Greg N. Gregoriou

#144819

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Greg N. Gregoriou was a professor of finance and a native of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Gregoriou received his joint Ph.D. in 2004 with a specialization in the area of finance from the University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada. He has edited 52 scientific books, authored 100 refereed publications in scientific journals and book chapters since he started teaching at the State University of New York Plattsburgh in 2003. Professor Gregoriou specialized in hedge funds and CTAs, including research into the optimal number of hedge fund managers in a fund of hedge funds whereby the variance-reducing effects of diversification decrease once FoHFs maintain more than 20 underlying hedge funds .

#3949

Robert B. Seidman

#139287

Overall Influence

1920 - 2014 (94 years)

Robert B. Seidman was an American legal scholar, active in African liberation and democracy struggles, and Professor and then Emeritus Professor of Law and Political Science at Boston University from 1974 to 2013.

#3950

Luisa Lambertini

#169725

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Luisa Lambertini is an Italian economist specialized in monetary and fiscal policies. She is a professor of economics at EPFL , where she holds the Chair of International Finance at the College of Management of Technology.

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