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List of the most influential people in Economics,

#4101

Alexander Kwapong

#44333

Overall Influence

1927 - 2014 (87 years)

Alexander Adum Kwapong, was a Ghanaian classicist who was Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana from 1966 to1975.

#4102

Roberto Esser dos Reis

#56822

Overall Influence

Roberto Esser dos Reis, is a Brazilian ichthyologist, professor and Curator of Fishes at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul. Among other duties, Reis has been working at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States. Most of his research as an ichthyologist regards different types of South American catfish. He is also chair for South America of the Freshwater Fish Specialist Group, Species Survival Commission, and advises the IUCN on the biological aspects of the conservati...

#4103

Charles Wilson

#87412

Overall Influence

Charles Zachary Wilson is an American economist who is Professor Emeritus at UCLA's Graduate School of Education. He was the first Black individual to serve as an Academic Vice-Chancellor in the University of California System, and was among the founders of the National Economic Association.

#4104

Girish Mishra

#152822

Overall Influence

Dr. Girish Mishra was an Indian author, columnist, teacher and commentator. He is famous for his commentary on Indian economy for nearly past half century. Life Dr. Girish Mishra Born in Champaran, Bihar. He earned a Master of Arts as well as a Doctorate in Economics with an emphasis on Economic History. He was Reader in Economics, Kirori Mal College at University of Delhi,.

#4105

Louden Ryan

#141914

Overall Influence

1923 - 2018 (95 years)

William James Louden Ryan, MRIA , known as Louden Ryan, was an Irish economist and academic. He was Professor of Industrial Economics , Whately Professor of Political Economy and Professor of Political Economy at Trinity College Dublin. Among a number of public positions, he served as chairman of the National Economic and Social Council from 1973 to 1978 and as Governor of the Bank of Ireland from 1985 to 1991. He has been credited with playing a key role in the transformation of Ireland's economy from one based on agriculture and protectionism to one dominated by industry, free trade and se...

#4106

Ian Livingstone

#140887

Overall Influence

1933 - 2001 (68 years)

Ian Livingstone was a noted British development economist. Early life Livingstone was born in France to Scottish parents. His family returning to the UK just prior to France falling to the Nazi's 1940. He studied economics at the University of Sheffield graduating with a first class degree. He followed this with post-graduate studies at Yale University.

#4107

Eddy K. A. Van Doorslaer

#183645

Overall Influence

#4108

Jean-Pierre Florens

#113477

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Jean-Pierre Florens is an influential French econometrician at Toulouse School of Economics. He is known for his research on Bayesian inference, econometrics of stochastic processes, causality, frontier estimation, and inverse problems.

#4109

Julie Remache

#176437

Overall Influence

Julie Ann Remache is an American economist who currently works as selected deputy SOMA manager at the Federal Reserve of New York. Remache has worked at the Federal Reserve of New York since 2000, where she held several positions before being promoted to Senior VP in February 2015. She briefly worked in the private sector between 2008-2009, but returned to the Federal Reserve in January 2009 as Director for Portfolio Analytics. In this position, Remache was part of a team responsible for buying $1.25 trillion of mortgage-backed securities as part of the Federal Reserve's MBS purchase program ...

#4110

Vidar Christiansen

#173582

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Vidar Christiansen is a Norwegian economist. He was born in Drammen and grew up in Hokksund. After graduating with the cand.oecon. degree he was a research fellow at the University of Oslo from 1975, lecturer at the Norwegian School of Economics from 1979 and at the University of Oslo from 1981. He took his dr. oecon. degree at the Norwegian School of Economics in 1987. In 1989 he was awarded the David Davidsson Prize for best article in the Scandinavian Journal of Economics. In 1991 he was hired as professor at the BI Norwegian Business School and from 1994 to his retirement he was a profess...

#4111

Mark Gerard Hayes

#137318

Overall Influence

1956 - 2019 (63 years)

Mark Gerard Hayes, pen-name M. G. Hayes , was a British-Irish economist and former banker. As an economist, he wrote mainly on the economics of John Maynard Keynes and on the economic implications of Catholic social thought. He was a Quondam Fellow in Economics of Robinson College, Cambridge, and published two books on the economics of Keynes and several scholarly articles and chapters on both his areas of research. From 2006-2016 he was the Secretary of the Post-Keynesian Economics Society .

#4112

David Cesarini

#179541

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

David Alexander Cesarini is an associate professor in the Department of Economics & Center for Experimental Social Science at New York University, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, as well as affiliated researcher at the Research Institute for Industrial Economics . He is an empirically oriented economist with interests in social-science genetics, applied microeconomics and behavioral economics—especially known for his research in genoeconomics and the heritability of economic behaviors and attitudes, such as investing decisions and confidence.

#4113

Kurt Langendorf

#118881

Overall Influence

1920 - 2011 (91 years)

Kurt Langendorf was a German participant in political resistance during the Nazi years. After 1945 he chose an academic career, becoming a university professor and economist, while also engaging in the Union of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime and its successor organisation.

#4114

Mariassunta Giannetti

#178657

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Mariassunta Giannetti is an economist and a professor of finance at the Stockholm School of Economics. She won the Assar Lindbeck Medal in 2013. She is an associate editor of The Journal of Finance and the Journal of Financial Economics since 2021, and she was an associate editor of The Review of Financial Studies, the Review of Finance and the Journal of Banking and Finance. She is a research fellow at CEPR and the European Academic Director of the Financial Management Association .

#4115

Shelley White-Means

#178947

Overall Influence

Shelley White-Means is an American health economist who is a professor at The University of Tennessee Health Science Center , and director of the Consortium for Health Education, Economic Empowerment and Research at UTHSC. She is a past president of the National Economic Association.

#4116

Uri Possen

#177000

Overall Influence

1940 - 2012 (72 years)

Uri Meir Possen was a professor in the Department of Economics at Cornell University, and was the chair of that department. He died December 12, 2012.

#4117

Edward S. Ayensu

#120567

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Edward Solomon Ayensu was an African life scientist and Professor. He was an international development advisor on science, technology and economic development. He was a founding Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences.

#4118

Michael Marlow

#111783

Overall Influence

Michael L. Marlow is a professor of economics at California Polytechnic State University . He is also an affiliated senior scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He holds a BA from George Washington University and a PhD from Virginia Tech, both in economics. He joined the California Polytechnic State University faculty in 1988 and was named a University Distinguished Scholar by the university in 2007. Prior to joining Cal Poly, he was an associate professor of economics at George Washington University from 1979 to 1983, and also worked as a senior financial economist at the U.S.

#4119

Lan Zhang

#145304

Overall Influence

Lan Zhang is a Chinese-American scholar of financial econometrics specializing in market microstructure and high frequency data. She is a professor of finance at the University of Illinois Chicago. Education and career Zhang studied psychology at Peking University, graduating in 1992. After earning a master's degree in psychology at the University of Chicago in 1995, she switched to statistics, completing her Ph.D. in Chicago in 2001. While a doctoral student, she also spent a year as an exchange scholar at the Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton University. Her doctoral dissertation, Fro...

#4120

Eleanor P. Brown

#182615

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Eleanor P. Brown is an American economist. She is the James Irvine Professor of Economics at Pomona College in Claremont, California, and is a co-editor of the academic journal Review of Economics of the Household.

#4121

Michael E. Wetzstein

#184092

Overall Influence

#4122

Benjamin Shwadran

#105356

Overall Influence

1907 - Present (119 years)

Benjamin Shwadran was an author and professor of Middle Eastern studies. He was born in the Old City of Jerusalem. Shwadran went to the United States in 1927, and completed his studies at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he received a doctorate in 1945. Shwadran first taught Middle Eastern studies at the New School for Social Research in New York, and then as professor of Middle Eastern studies and director of the Middle East Institute at Dropsie College and Yeshiva University. Shwadran then taught as a professor of political science at Hofstra University. In 1973, he retir...

#4123

Ricardo Raineri

#137713

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Ricardo Jorge Raineri Bernain is an economist, academic, researcher, consultant, and politician. On February 9, 2010, Chile's then President Sebastián Piñera nominated him to the Ministry of Energy.

#4124

Nyovani Madise

#177269

Overall Influence

Nyovani Janet Madise is the current director of research and sustainable development policies and head of the Malawi office of the African Institute for Development Policy. She is an advisor to the World Health Organization and a former professor at the University of Southampton in demography and social statistics. Nyovani has over 100 peer-reviewed research publications that focus on global health issues to highlight the influence of social and economic factors on health in low-income countries.

#4125

Vlado Dimovski

#148641

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Vlado Dimovski, Slovenian economist, philosopher, politician, consultant and university professor, * 21 July 1960, Postojna, Slovenia. Biography After finishing the Bežigrad Grammar School Dimovski graduated in 1984 at the School of Economics and Business at the University of Ljubljana, where he received also an M.S. in economics in 1988. At the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana he graduated in 1989 also in philosophy. He received his PhD degree in management and finance from the Cleveland State University, Ohio, United States in 1994.

#4126

Terri Vaughan

#88347

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Therese Michele "Terri" Vaughan is an American insurance academic, regulator, and advisor. She was insurance commissioner of the state of Iowa for 10 years from 1994 to 2005, and was the CEO of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners for four years from February 2009 to December 2012. She is currently executive in residence at Drake University, having previously been its Robb B. Kelley distinguished professor of insurance and actuarial science, Dean of its College of Business and Public Administration, and director of its Insurance Center.

#4127

Simo Elaković

#51059

Overall Influence

1940 - 2016 (76 years)

Simo Elaković was a Serbian philosopher and Professor at University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy. Biography After earning his degree in philosophy from the University of Belgrade, he has continued further specialization in Germany. He has worked as professor at a gymnasium in Dubrovnik and in Sremski Karlovci. He has been elected as assistant at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Economics. He worked as a Professor of Sociology at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Philosophy, then he moved to Belgrade, where he reaches a Professor of Philosophy title.

#4128

William Berenberg

#38757

Overall Influence

1915 - 2005 (90 years)

William Berenberg, M.D. was an American physician, Harvard professor, and pioneer in the treatment and rehabilitation of cerebral palsy. Early life Berenberg was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, to immigrant parents. Growing up in Chelsea, Massachusetts, he proved a bright and studious young man and earned admission to Harvard University on scholarship. However, his father was reportedly too proud to allow his son to take the "hand-out" and Berenberg worked his own way through the Ivy League institution, commuting from home and cleaning dishes for extra income. He graduated from Harvard cum laude in 1936 and entered Boston University Medical School later that year, earning his M.D.

#4129

Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan

#153178

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Ṣebnem Kalemli-Özcan is an economist and the Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is a co-editor of the Journal of International Economics, on the board of editors of the American Economic Review, an associate editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association and an associate editor of the Journal of Development Economics. She is a research fellow at the NBER and CEPR.

#4130

Sajal Kumar Ghosh

#184363

Overall Influence

#4131

Philip A. Haile

#184084

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Philip A. Haile is an economist and the Ford Foundation Professor of Economics at Yale University. Education Haile received his undergraduate degree in economics from Duke University in 1988 and Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University in 1996.

#4132

Howard Davies

#139345

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Sir Howard John Davies is a British historian and author, who is the chairman of NatWest Group and the former director of the London School of Economics. He was the first chairman of the Financial Services Authority. Davies was chairman of the Phoenix Group and, until July 2015, chaired the UK Airports Commission. In February 2015, he was appointed chairman of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group, taking up the role from September 2015. RBS Group was renamed NatWest Group in 2020. In 2023, he came under immense scrutiny in reference to the Nigel Farage scandal.

#4133

John Dillenberger

#20698

Overall Influence

1918 - 2008 (90 years)

John Dillenberger was professor of historical theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He was instrumental in forming the Graduate Theological Union which he headed during its first decade, first as dean from 1964 to 1969 and then, from 1967 to 1972, as its first president, a post to which he returned in 1999–2000. He also served as president of Hartford Seminary, dean of the faculty at San Francisco Theological Seminary, chair of the program in history and philosophy at Harvard University, and as president of the American Academy of Religion.

#4134

Anoop Sasikumar

#173332

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (42 years)

Anoop Sasikumar is an Indian economist and a novelist of Malayalam literature. He is the author of several articles on economics and his first novel, Ettamathe Velipadu, regarded by many as the first urban fantasy novel in Malayalam, was among the novels shortlisted for DC Books Literary Award in 2018.

#4135

Ljubo Jurčić

#149338

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Ljubo Jurčić is a Croatian economist, current president of the Croatian Association of Economists since 2006 and former Minister of Economy from 2002 to 2003. Biography Ljubo Jurčić is a Herzegovinian Croat born in the village of Ružići near Grude, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia. Three of his uncles died in World War II, including one Maksimilijan Jurčić, a Franciscan friar who was killed by Yugoslav Partisans in 1945. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Zagreb and became a doctor of economic science.

#4136

Mary Tiffen

#100458

Overall Influence

1931 - 2020 (89 years)

Mary Tiffen was a British economic historian, scholar and development professional. She specialised in ancient irrigation systems and African drylands. Background Tiffen was the daughter of Gwendolen and Horace Steele-Perkins, raised in Farnborough, Hampshire. Her father was an RAF officer and worked during WWII in Hong Kong. After WWII, Mary moved to India, and finished her schooling in Devon, and took a history degree at Girton College, Cambridge . She then taught and worked for NGOs, from 1960 accompanying her husband on overseas missions and conducting independent research. Her Doctor of...

#4137

Julie Berry Cullen

#171681

Overall Influence

Julie Berry Cullen is an American economist who is a professor and Chair of Economics at the University of California, San Diego. She is also a researcher at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research considers public economics and the economics of education.

#4138

Timothy Riddiough

#173698

Overall Influence

Timothy Riddiough is an American researcher and academic. He is the James A. Graaskamp Chair and the Chair of the department of real estate and urban land economics at University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is best known for his work on credit risk in mortgage lending, mortgage securitization, real options, REIT investment and corporate finance, and land use regulation.

#4139

Chen Jian

#57719

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Chen Jian is Hu Shih Professor of History and China-US Relations emeritus at Cornell University. His specialties include modern Chinese history, history of Chinese-American relations, and Cold War international history. He is also Zijiang Distinguished Visiting Professor at East China Normal University and Distinguished Global Network Professor of History at New York University Shanghai.

#4140

Ann Seidman

#157008

Overall Influence

1926 - 2019 (93 years)

Ann Willcox Seidman was an American economist, active in African liberation struggles, and a writer and university professor. Background Ann Willcox Seidman was raised in New York city - her parents were engineer Henry Willcox and the feminist artist Anita Parkhurst Willcox. Both were later victims of McCarthy era censorship. She held a BA , MS in Economics , and a PhD in Economics that was supervised by Kenneth H. Parsons .

#4141

Rukmani Gounder

#184752

Overall Influence

Rukmani Gounder is a New Zealand economics academic. She is currently a full professor at the Massey University. Academic career After a 1994 PhD titled 'An economic analysis of overseas aid motivations : theory and empirical results for Australia' at the University of Queensland, Gounder moved to the Massey University, rising to full professor.

#4142

Fan Kang

#158492

Overall Influence

1924 - 2019 (95 years)

Fan Kang was a Chinese economic historian. Considered a founder of world economic history in China, she was elected an honorary member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Biography Fan Kang was born in Weihui, Henan, Republic of China in May 1924. She graduated from the Department of English of Northwest University in 1946, and joined the Communist Party of China in August 1948.

#4143

Catherine Liston-Heyes

#128228

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Catherine Liston-Heyes is a Canadian economist, professor at the University of Ottawa and director of its Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. particularly known for her work on Competition and regulation.

#4144

Marion Laboure

#177381

Overall Influence

1986 - Present (40 years)

Marion Laboure is an economist, macro strategist and a lecturer. She currently works as a Macro strategist at Deutsche Bank, London. She is also a lecturer at Harvard University in Economics and Finance.

#4145

James Robinson

#184834

Overall Influence

#4146

Gregory Price

#173123

Overall Influence

Gregory N. Price is an American economist who is a professor of economics at the University of New Orleans, and a former president of the National Economic Association. Education and early life Price grew up in New Haven, Connecticut. He graduated from Morehouse College and received his MA and PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

#4147

Jonathan Feinstein

#179140

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Jonathan S. Feinstein is an American economist, currently the John G. Searle Professor at Yale School of Management. He is the author of The Nature of Creative Development 2006. His approach to creativity has been featured in Fast Company and Business Week. He designed both the Innovator core course and the Math Camp pre-program for Yale. His math camp has been featured in the Wall Street Journal.

#4148

Krzysztof Obłój

Krzysztof Obłój

#31659

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Krzysztof Obłój is a Polish economist and university teacher, with a broad research area including world economy, institutional environment of business, competition and entrepreneurship. He specializes in organization culture, structure and process, internal organizational analysis and organizational strategy. Obłój is Chair of the Institute for Strategic Management and International Management at the University of Warsaw and Head of the Department of Business Strategy at the Kozminski University in Warsaw.

#4149

Ignacy Sachs

#45034

Overall Influence

1927 - 2023 (96 years)

Ignacy Sachs was a Polish-born French economist. He was considered to be an ecosocioeconomist for his ideas about development as a combination of economic growth, equalitarian increase in social well-being and environmental preservation.

#4150

Gail Pacheco

#177495

Overall Influence

Gail Pacheco is a New Zealand economics academic. She is currently a full professor at the Auckland University of Technology. Academic career After a 2007 PhD at titled 'Minimum wage in New Zealand: an empirical enquiry' at the University of Auckland, she moved to the Auckland University of Technology, rising to full professor.

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