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List of the most influential people in Economics,

#4301

Leslie Pressnell

#176186

Overall Influence

1922 - 2011 (89 years)

Leslie Pressnell was a British monetary historian. He taught at the University of Exeter, University College London, his alma mater the London School of Economics, City, University of London, and finally the University of Kent, where he was Professor of Economic and Social History. He authored several books.

#4302

Ghulam Rabbani Agro

#69596

Overall Influence

1933 - 2010 (77 years)

Ghulam Rabbani Agro is a prominent name of Sindhi literature. He is the pioneer of revised-era of Sindhi short story in post-partition era. His literary career though started with Sindhi short story took many turns whereby he contributed a number of literary and scholarly articles on varied topics including history of Sindhi language, culture, religion, biographies of prominent personalities, and many more.

#4303

Natasha Hamilton-Hart

#187864

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Natasha Elvina Hamilton-Hart is a New Zealand business academic. She is currently a full professor at the University of Auckland. Academic career After a 1999 PhD titled 'States and capital mobility : Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore in the Asian region' at the Cornell University, she moved to the University of Auckland, rising to full professor.

#4304

Jason Fletcher

#98421

Overall Influence

Jason M. Fletcher is an American economist, Professor of Public Affairs and Sociology in the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs, and Director of the Center for Demography of Health and Aging at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research is in the fields of health economics and the economics of education, as well as the incorporation of social genomics into economic research. He received his B.S. degree from the University of Tennessee–Knoxville in 2000 and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2003 and 2006, respectively. From 2010 to 2012, he was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar at Columbia University.

#4305

Timothy Jurka

#113082

Overall Influence

1988 - Present (38 years)

Timothy Jurka is a Polish-American computer scientist and political scientist. Background Jurka is best known for developing the artificial intelligence that ranks the LinkedIn news feed. Previously, Jurka developed machine learning algorithms for news recommendations in the Pulse news reading application, which was acquired by LinkedIn in 2013.

#4306

Peter Diamandopoulos

#14392

Overall Influence

1928 - 2015 (87 years)

Peter Theodore Diamandopoulos was a Greek–American academic administrator. He served as the president of Sonoma State University from 1977 to 1983, when he was forced to resign; followed by serving as the seventh president of Adelphi University from 1985 until his dismissal in 1997, due to the school's financial problems.

#4307

Aanund Hylland

#117327

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Aanund Hylland is a Norwegian economist. He completed a master's degree in mathematical logic at the University of Oslo in 1974, and a Ph.D. at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University in 1980. He worked at the University of Oslo and BI Norwegian Business School from 1983, and in 1991, he was promoted to professor at the University of Oslo. He was the dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences from 1996 to 1998.

#4308

Gary Hoover

#177608

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Gary A. Hoover is an American professor of economics and director of the Murphy Institute at Tulane University. From January 2015 until December 2020 he was a professor and Chair of the Economics Department at the University of Oklahoma. He was the first and only African American ever hired in that department. In August 1998 he joined the Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies at the University of Alabama. He was the first and only African American ever hired in that department, on the tenure track. He was tenured in August 2004 and in 2005 became the Assistant Dean for Graduate S...

#4309

Ryan Kellogg

#189630

Overall Influence

#4310

Jang Young-sik

#76544

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Jang Young-sik is a South Korean economist. He was the president of the Korea Electric Power Corporation from May 1998 to April 1999. Personal life and early career Jang is a native of Gwangju. His younger brother Jang Jae-sik would become a member of National Congress for New Politics and a National Assembly member in the 1990s. He graduated from Seoul National University with a degree in metallurgical engineering, and afterwards worked in the Office of the Prime Minister as an economist. Later in the 1950s he emigrated to the U.S. and naturalised as a citizen there. He went on to the Unive...

#4311

Phil Gramm

#172978

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

William Philip Gramm is an American economist and politician who represented Texas in both chambers of Congress. Though he began his political career as a Democrat, Gramm switched to the Republican Party in 1983. Gramm was an unsuccessful candidate in the 1996 Republican Party presidential primaries against eventual nominee Bob Dole.

#4312

William Craig Rice

#75316

Overall Influence

1955 - 2016 (61 years)

William Craig Rice was an American educator. He was the Director of the Division of Education Programs of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Career Rice was born in 1955 in Washington, D.C. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Virginia, where his studies focused on English and American literature. He later earned an M.F.A. and a doctorate at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he won a Hopwood Writing Award and the Brubacher Prize in the History of Education. His publications include: Public Discourse & Academic Inquiry, a study in the socio...

#4313

Oliver Fiechter

Oliver Fiechter

#140280

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Oliver Fiechter is a Swiss economic philosopher, digital business model innovatonist, management visionaire, entrepreneur, and author of the books We Are The Economy! and Rise of the Digital Tribal Society .

#4314

Judy Feder

#79368

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Judith M. Feder is a Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University and was Dean of the Georgetown Public Policy Institute from 1999 through 2007; she is a member of the Institute of Medicine. Feder is also a Democratic policy consultant and served in the Clinton administration. She ran unsuccessfully in 2006 and 2008 for the United States House of Representatives to represent Virginia's 10th congressional district.

#4315

Donald Rutherford

#187659

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Donald Rutherford was a British economist and Lecturer in Economics at the University of Edinburgh. He was educated at The Queen's College, Oxford and was Lecturer and subsequently honorary lecturer at the College. Rutherford is known for his writings on the history of economic thought and Scottish economics.

#4316

Hazem Daouk

#101366

Overall Influence

Hazem Daouk is a financial economist, known for his work on securities regulation, especially insider trading, earnings management and short selling. He is a professor at Cornell University where he holds the Peter J. & Stephanie J. Nolan chair. His articles have been cited over 4,000 times . Daouk is the general manager of United Insurance Company.

#4317

Radha Iyengar Plumb

#187880

Overall Influence

Radha Iyengar Plumb is an American government official currently serving as Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment. She was confirmed for the position by the U.S. Senate on April 18, 2023 and assumed office later that month.

#4318

Janelle Knox-Hayes

#179083

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (43 years)

Janelle Knox-Hayes is the Lister Brothers Associate Professor of Economic Geography in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research and teaching explore the institutional nature of social, economic and environmental systems, and the ways in which these are impacted by changing socio-economic spatial and temporal dynamics.

#4319

Michael A. Santoro

Michael A. Santoro

#102743

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Michael Anthony Santoro is a business ethicist and professor in the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship at the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University. Santoro has written and offered public comments on business and human rights, corporate social responsibility and human rights in China, pharmaceutical industry ethics, and Wall Street ethics. He was previously professor at Rutgers Business School.

#4320

Katja Windt

#69240

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Katja Windt is a researcher and professor of global production logistics who served as president of Jacobs University Bremen from 2014 until 2018. Education Windt received her doctorate in 2000 from the Institut für Fabrikanlagen und Logistik IFA . During her studies she attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, Massachusetts, for one semester.

#4321

Bakul Harshadrai Dholakia

Bakul Harshadrai Dholakia

#181327

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Bakul Harshadrai Dholakia is the former Director of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad . Prior to that, he was the Dean at Ahmedabad and a professor in Economics He was also the Director General of International Management Institute, New Delhi. Prior to joining IMI New Delhi, he was the Director of Adani Institute of Infrastructure Management and Gujarat Adani Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhuj.

#4322

Steven J. Davis

#190033

Overall Influence

#4323

Helmut Schmidt

#190036

Overall Influence

#4324

Alan Gilbert

#138320

Overall Influence

Alan Gilbert is the John Evans Professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver and operator of the web site "Democratic Individuality." He was a member of the Harvard chapter of Students for a Democratic Society at the time of the occupation of University Hall at Harvard in 1969.

#4325

Allen N. Berger

#190095

Overall Influence

#4326

Colin Maiden

#187562

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Sir Colin James Maiden is a New Zealand mechanical engineer, university administrator and company director. Biography Maiden was born in Auckland on 5 May 1933, the son of Henry Arnold Maiden and Lorna Maiden . He was educated at Auckland Grammar School where he played in the school's 1st XV rugby union team. He then attended Auckland University College completing a Bachelor and Master of Engineering, graduating with the latter degree in 1956. In 1955 he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to attend the University of Oxford, where he completed his doctorate in 1957. While at Oxford, Maiden was a...

#4327

Paul B. Huber

#184645

Overall Influence

1934 - 2021 (87 years)

Paul Bickford Huber was an American economist and professor of economics at Dalhousie University . He served as a member of the Executive Board of the Association of Dalhousie Retirees and Pensions .

#4328

Marian Chertow

#92971

Overall Influence

Marian Ruth Chertow is an American academic specializing in environmental management. Biography She holds a B.A. from Barnard College , a M.P.P.M. from Yale University, and a Ph.D. from Yale University with thesis titled Accelerating commercialization of environmental technology in the United States: Theory and case studies.

#4329

Thomas Wieser

#38027

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Thomas Wieser is an American-Austrian economist working for the European Union. He was the president of Economic and Financial Committee of the EU as well as the president of the Eurogroup Working Group , both advisory bodies of the Eurogroup, until February 2018.

#4330

Bryan Horrigan

#47747

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Professor Bryan Horrigan is an Australian legal academic and the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Law at Monash University in Australia since January 2013. He previously held positions at Monash University as the Louis Waller Chair in Law and Associate Dean . Formerly a senior associate and long-standing consultant with a leading international law firm, he holds a doctorate in law from Oxford University under a Rhodes Scholarship.

#4331

Richard C. Steiner

Richard C. Steiner

#63702

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Richard C. Steiner is a Semitist and a scholar of Northwest Semitic languages, Jewish Studies, and Near Eastern texts. His work has focused on texts from as early as the Egyptian Pyramid texts to as late as medieval biblical interpretation. He is now retired from his position as professor of Semitics at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University in New York City.

#4332

Anna Paulson

#157936

Overall Influence

Anna Louise Paulson is an American economist who is Executive Vice President and Director of Research of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. She is a member of the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession and a past board member of the Western Economic Association International.

#4333

Stephen Booth

#72727

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Stephen Booth was a professor of English literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a leading Shakespearean scholar. Life Booth studied at Harvard University and the University of Cambridge where he was a Marshall Scholar. He was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in 1968 and a Guggenheim Fellowship for 1970-71. In 1991, Georgetown University gave him an honorary degree, Doctor of Humane Letters. He received the OBE in 1995.

#4334

Carl J. Strikwerda

#167536

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Carl J. Strikwerda is an American historian. He was the president of Elizabethtown College until 2019. He currently lives in Washington, D.C. Biography Strikwerda is the former dean of the faculty of arts and sciences at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. He has also previously worked as an associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Kansas.

#4335

John Crispo

#139774

Overall Influence

1933 - 2009 (76 years)

John H. G. Crispo was a Canadian economist, author and educator. Crispo graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Toronto and with a Doctor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

#4336

Richard Herman

#30371

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Richard H. Herman is a former mathematician who had served as the Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2005-2009. He previously served there as Provost and Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs since 1998. As provost he garnered support for, and administered, a “faculty excellence” program designed to bring established faculty to the institution. Over the course of his administrative tenure, sponsored research at the university increased by more than 50%.

#4337

Henning Bergenholtz

#37337

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Henning John Bergenholtz is a Danish linguist, who is head of Center for Lexicography at Aarhus School of Business in Denmark. Professor Bergenholtz has contributed to lexicography as a science with publications on theoretical lexicography as well as several printed and electronic dictionaries.

#4338

Howard Richards

#182456

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Howard Richards is a philosopher of Social Science who works with the concepts of basic cultural structures and constitutive rules. He holds the title of Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College, a liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana, the United States, the Quaker School where he taught for thirty years. He retired from Earlham College, together with his wife Caroline Higgins in 2007, and became a Research Professor of Philosophy. He has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a Juris Doctor from the Stanford Law School, an Advanced Certificate in Education from Oxford University and a Ph.D.

#4339

Patrizio Vinciarelli

Patrizio Vinciarelli

#183170

Overall Influence

Patrizio Vinciarelli is chairman of the board, president, and chief executive officer of Vicor Corporation, which he founded in 1981 and has led since its inception. Prior to founding Vicor, Vinciarelli was a fellow from 1977 to 1980 at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton, New Jersey and an instructor at Princeton University. From 1973 to 1976, he was a fellow at CERN, the Center for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland. Vinciarelli received his doctorate in Physics from the University of Rome, Italy.

#4340

Kalina Manova

#126842

Overall Influence

Kalina Manova is an American and Bulgarian professor of economics and deputy head of department at University College London. She is the winner of the 2016 Philip Leverhulme Prize. She also part of the council of the European Economic Association. She is on the editorial board of the Review of Economic Studies.

#4341

Yōichi Masuzoe

#66673

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

is a Japanese politician who was elected to the position of governor of Tokyo in 2014 and resigned in June 2016 due to the misuse of public funds. He was previously a member of the Japanese House of Councillors and the Japanese Minister of Health, Labor, and Welfare. Before entering politics, he became well known in Japan as a television commentator on political issues.

#4342

Crawford Falconer

#104022

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Crawford Dunlop Falconer is the United Kingdom's Chief Trade Negotiation Adviser and is based in the Department for Business and Trade , which employs about 200 trade negotiatorss. He was recruited to the Civil Service in 2017 during the run-up to Brexit. As well as leading trade negotiation, he is the Second Permanent Secretary for DBT.

#4343

Liu Qiao

#190548

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Liu Qiao may refer to:Liu Qiao , military general of the Jin dynastyLiu Qiao See also Liuqiao

#4344

Euh Yoon-dae

#170176

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Euh Yoon-Dae is a South Korean professor, financier, and advisor for the South Korean government. He served as Chairman of KB Financial Group and of the Presidential Council on Nation Branding, Korea.

#4345

Martin Wohl

#123186

Overall Influence

1930 - 2009 (79 years)

Martin Wohl , was a transportation economist. He was born in Greensboro, North Carolina and grew up in the District of Columbia. During his youth, Wohl worked as a Senate page and was then appointed to the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York from North Carolina's 6th congressional district by Democratic congressman Carl T. Durham. He transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and served as a first lieutenant in the Army Corps of Engineers after graduation. Wohl later received his M.S. degree in civil engineering from MIT in 1960 with a thesis entitled Applications of symbolic models and simulation in traffic engineering.

#4346

Richard Lester

#190581

Overall Influence

#4347

Lieu Da-Kuin

#188100

Overall Influence

Lieu Da-Kuin or Liu Dajun , also alternatively spelled as Dakuin K. Lieu, commonly known in English as D. K. Lieu, was a prominent Chinese economist in the twentieth century. Together with Ma Yinchu, He Lian and Fang Xianting, he is described as one of the "Four Major Economists of the Republic of China".

#4348

David Forrest

#188484

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

David Kerr Forrest is an applied economist and econometrician who specialises in analysis of the sports and gambling industries. He has contributed substantially to literature on sport and gambling markets from the 1990s to the present. He regularly appears as a media expert in this area in the UK.

#4349

Margo Buchanan-Oliver

#176837

Overall Influence

1901 - 2018 (117 years)

Margo Buchanan-Oliver was a full professor in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Academic career Buchanan-Oliver completed a PhD at the University of Auckland in 1989 with a thesis titled Media vitae in morte sumus: patterns of life and death in the English mediaeval morality drama: with special reference to the play Mankin. She rose to full professor and head of the Department of Marketing in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Auckland.

#4350

Cecilia Garcia-Penalosa

#189884

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Cecilia García-Peñalosa is a Spanish economist and a research fellow at the Aix-Marseille University. She is also a research professor at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and has an affiliation with the Bank of France. She was an associate editor of the European Economic Review and is currently an associate editor at the Journal of Economic Inequality.

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