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List of the most influential people in Economics,

#4351

Jörg Finsinger

#145109

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Jörg Finsinger is a German economist. Affiliations Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Publications Jörg Finsinger, Jürgen Simon, The Harmonisation of Product Liability Laws in Britain and Germany, An Applied Legal-Economic Analysis . Jörg Borrmann, Jörg Finsinger, Markt und Regulierung Jörg Finsinger, Versicherungsmärkte

#4352

Sue Schurman

#140434

Overall Influence

Sue Schurman is an American scholar, currently distinguished professor at Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations and dean from 2011 to 2015. Education Schurman earned her PhD from University of Michigan.

#4353

Sergei Aleksashenko

#37926

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Sergey Vladimirovich Aleksashenko also transliterated as Alexashenko is a Russian economist and former government official. He was the deputy finance minister and first deputy chairman of the board of the Central Bank of Russia from 1995 to 1998.

#4354

A. Thomas Kraabel

A. Thomas Kraabel

#88069

Overall Influence

1934 - 2016 (82 years)

Alf Thomas Kraabel was an American classics scholar and educator who worked extensively in Greek and Hellenistic Judaic studies. He served as a faculty member in the classics department at the University of Minnesota from 1963 to 1983, and served as the Dean of Luther College in Iowa before retiring in 2000.

#4355

Cheryl Lehman

#103546

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Cheryl Lehman, also professionally known as Cheryl R. Lehman, is a professor at Hofstra University and an accounting academic. History Cheryl Lehman graduated with a bachelor's degree in accounting in 1975 from Queen's College of The City University of New York. She obtained a Master of Philosophy degree from New York University in 1982, from which she also obtained a doctorate in accounting in 1985, from the Graduate School of Business Administration.

#4356

Olena Nepochatenko

#189615

Overall Influence

Olena Oleksandrivna Nepochatenko is a Ukrainian agricultural economist and academic administrator. She is the rector of Uman National University of Horticulture since 2013. Nepochatenko specializes the study of lending to agricultural enterprises, taxation of agricultural producers, loans, and agricultural leasing. She holds of the title of and was awarded the , third class.

#4357

Edward Kleinbard

#173380

Overall Influence

1951 - 2020 (69 years)

Edward David Kleinbard was an American lawyer, tax academic, and Ivadelle and Theodore Johnson Professor of Law and Business at USC Gould School of Law. Born in Manhattan, he died of cancer in 2020 at Los Angeles.

#4358

James X. Zhang

#190632

Overall Influence

James X. Zhang is an American health economist and health services researcher at the University of Chicago known for his innovative approaches in exploring complex data to measure a range of factors influencing healthcare delivery and outcomes.

#4359

Juan Carlos Escotet

#44510

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Juan Carlos Escotet Rodríguez is a Spanish-Venezuelan billionaire banker and the founder of Banesco, the largest private financial institution in Venezuela. He is also CEO and shareholder of Spanish bank Abanca. As of March 2022, his reported net worth is estimated at US$3.5 billion.

#4360

Richard J. Grosh

#107379

Overall Influence

1927 - Present (99 years)

Richard Joseph Grosh was the thirteenth president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He was born on October 29, 1927, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He attended Purdue University, where he received B.S., M.S. and P.h.D. degrees in mechanical engineering . In 1953, he was appointed assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue. In 1953, he was appointed professor of mechanical engineering and in 1961, he was appointed head of the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue. In 1965, he was named associate dean of the Schools of Engineering. In 1967, he was appointed dean of the Schools of Engineering.

#4361

Eduardo Garzón

#190034

Overall Influence

1988 - Present (38 years)

Eduardo Garzón Espinosa is a Spanish economist and university professor. Biography Eduardo Garzón was born in Logroño in 1988. He is the brother of Alberto Garzón. He studied Economics and Business Administration and Management at the University of Málaga. He completed a master's degree in International Economics and Development at the Complutense University of Madrid, completing his doctorate at the Autonomous University of Madrid.

#4362

Pascal Diethelm

Pascal Diethelm

#105569

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Pascal Diethelm is a Swiss econometrician and tobacco control activist who is the president of the anti-smoking organization OxyRomandie. He formerly worked at the World Health Organization from 1970 until his retirement in 1999.

#4363

Masaru Hayami

#184280

Overall Influence

1925 - 2009 (84 years)

Masaru Hayami was a Japanese businessman, central banker, the 28th Governor of the Bank of Japan and a Director of the Bank for International Settlements . Early life Hayami was born in Hyōgo Prefecture. He graduated from The Tokyo College of Commerce in 1947.

#4364

Francesco Sacchetti

#180344

Overall Influence

Francesco di Riccardo Sacchetti , a member of an illustrious Tuscan family, was a doctor of medicine and professor of logic and law at the University of Pavia, Italy from 1449-69. His son, Francesco di Francesco Sacchetti, a minor in 1473, was also a doctor of arts and medicine; he was taken prisoner after the battle of Pavia, 1525, and seems to have died in captivity in Naples.

#4365

Janice Hammond

#98571

Overall Influence

Janice H. Hammond is an American economist currently the Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing at Harvard Business School. She teaches the Business Analytics course at Harvard Business School online.

#4366

Muriel Anton

#190549

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Muriel Anton is a Czech economist and business executive, who was the CEO of Vodafone Czech Republic to October 2013. Anton studied for a bachelor's degree in Commerce and a Masters of Arts in Economics at the University of Alberta, in Canada. From 1988 to 1991, she lectured there in intermediate and introductory macroeconomics at the Faculty of Economics. After numerous positions in financial planning and analysis management at telecommunications companies, she joined Oskar in January 2000. She was later appointed Director of Vodafone Czech Republic. In October 2013, she was succeeded by Bale...

#4367

Albrecht Ritschl

#182947

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Albrecht Ritschl is Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics. He studied at the University of Munich, and previously taught at the Pompeu Fabra University, the University of Zurich and the Humboldt University of Berlin.

#4368

William N. Kinnard

#187405

Overall Influence

1926 - 2001 (75 years)

William N. Kinnard, Jr. was one of America's leading real estate educators, authors, and experts in the field of appraisal. Early life He received a bachelor's degree with honors in economics from Swarthmore College, an MBA in finance from the Wharton School and, later, a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He taught at Wesleyan University before becoming director of Urban Redevelopment for the City of Middletown.

#4369

Stephen Burks

#189196

Overall Influence

Stephen V. Burks is professor of economics and management at the University of Minnesota. He is an expert in the economic history of the trucking industry in the United States and is a former truck driver. Burks is chairperson of the standing technical Committee on Trucking Industry Research at the Transportation Research Board. He received his BA from Reed College in 1973, MAs from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Indiana University Bloomington in 1976, and his PhD from the University of Massachusetts Amherst .

#4370

Ab Klink

#125726

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Abraham "Ab" Klink is a retired Dutch politician of Christian Democratic Appeal and sociologist. He is a corporate director of the VGZ Cooperative since 1 January 2014 and a professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam for Healthcare, Labor and Political Guidance since 1 January 2011.

#4371

Wes Moore

#145648

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Westley Watende Omari Moore is an American politician, investment banker, author, nonprofit executive, and former television producer serving as the 63rd governor of Maryland since 2023. Moore was born in Maryland and raised largely in New York. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University and received a master's degree from Wolfson College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. After several years in the U.S. Army and Army Reserve, Moore became an investment banker in New York. Between 2010 and 2015, Moore published five books, including a young adult novel. He served as CEO of the Robin Hood Foundation from 2017 to 2021.

#4372

Jane D'Arista

#119939

Overall Influence

Jane D'Arista is an American economist and research associate at the Economic Policy Institute and co-coordinator of its Committee of Economists and Analysts for Financial Reform. She has written on the history of U.S. monetary policy and financial regulation, international and domestic monetary systems, and capital flows to emerging economies. She served for 20 years as a staff economist for the U.S. Congress, and then, from 1988 to 1999, she taught international finance at Boston University School of Law. She authored The Evolution of U.S. Finance .

#4373

Kazuhide Uekusa

#188587

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Kazuhide Uekusa is a Japanese economist, economic analyst, former senior economist at Nomura Research Institute, and chairman of the Three-Nations Research Institute. He was arrested for sexual offenses in 2004 and 2006.

#4374

John B. Macdonald

#40188

Overall Influence

1918 - 2014 (96 years)

John Barfoot Macdonld was a Canadian academic. Biography Macdonald was born on February 23, 1918, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 1942, he graduated in Dental Surgery from the University of Toronto. During the Second World War, he served as Dental Corps. He received an M.S. in bacteriology from the University of Illinois in 1948 and a PhD from Columbia University in 1953. In 1949, he started teaching at the University of Toronto, then at Harvard University from 1956, up until 1962, when he became President of the University of British Columbia until 1967.

#4375

Franz Waldenberger

#191163

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Franz Waldenberger is professor for Japanese economy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the director of the German Institute for Japanese Studies . Career Waldenberger began to research the Japanese economy in 1992 when he became a research assistant at the DIJ. He examined industrial organization and the employment and financial system of Japan. His habilitation thesis was on the subject of "Organisation und Evolution arbeitsteiliger Systeme – Erkenntnisse aus der japanischen Wirtschaftsentwicklung" . In 1997, he became professor for Japanese economy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

#4376

J. Vernon Henderson

#191171

Overall Influence

#4377

Al Green

#184153

Overall Influence

Albert Green was an American record industry executive, and founder and president of National Records. Biography Green was born in Chicago where he worked as a union organizer for the Painters Union. He moved to Phillipsburg, New Jersey where he owned a plastic pressing plant. During World War II, his factory switched from producing toilet seat covers to producing plastic records - which had previously been made from shellac. Seeing that the real money was in producing records and not knowing anything about the business, he hired Sylvia Langler , who had experience in the industry. In 1944, he founded National Records and hired Herb Abramson, a friend of his wife, as his A&R man.

#4378

Asbjørn Rødseth

#191207

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Asbjørn Rødseth is a Norwegian economist. He was born in Harstad, and graduated with the cand.oecon. degree in 1976. He has been professor at the University of Oslo from 1989. He was the dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences until 2007.

#4379

Ingrid Antonijevic

#187125

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Ingrid Antonijevic Hahn is a Chilean economist, entrepreneur, academic and former Minister of Economy, Development and Reconstruction for only two months, in the first cabinet of socialist president Michelle Bachelet. In her youth, she was a militant in the MAPU organisation, and after the end of the Pinochet regime she was one of the founders of the Party for Democracy that has led the transition towards democracy in Chile. She is a progressive entrepreneur who promotes corporate social responsibility and the involvement of the private sector in projects initiated by the government that aim to benefit the whole country.

#4380

John Mills

#183110

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

John Angus Donald Mills is a British entrepreneur, economist and businessman. He founded British consumer products company JML , and is its chairman and majority shareholder. The company carries out direct-to-consumer marketing through major retail stores groups and its shopping channels.

#4381

John Pfaff

#40982

Overall Influence

John F. Pfaff is an American law professor at Fordham University. He previously served as a John M. Olin Fellow at the Northwestern University School of Law and as a clerk for Judge Stephen F. Williams on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was educated at the University of Chicago. His 2017 book Locked In argues that conventional wisdom regarding the causes of high rates of incarceration in the United States is wrong, arguing that, for example, the war on drugs has played a much smaller role than generally thought. Instead, he argues that rising violent...

#4382

Tom Geurts

#143599

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Tom Geerd Geurts is a Dutch economist currently employed by The George Washington University and an Honorary Professor at the Technische Universität Berlin. Current Chair of the Education Committee of the American Real Estate Society , and previously Director of Academic Affairs of the Schack institute of New York University. He wrote numerous presentations and publications in the field of Real Estate and Finance, for example in the field of Security Market Line. He is the son of Joop Geurts.

#4383

Sidney Weintraub

#96945

Overall Influence

1922 - 2014 (92 years)

Sidney Weintraub was an economist, foreign service officer, professor, non-fiction author, and novelist. After leaving U.S. government service, he was the Dean Rusk Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs from 1976 to 1994; emeritus thereafter

#4384

J. Dewey Daane

#82710

Overall Influence

1918 - 2017 (99 years)

J. Dewey Daane was an American economist and banker who served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors from 1963 to 1974. After leaving the Fed, Daane was also a chaired professor at Vanderbilt University since 1974.

#4385

Duane Acker

#177698

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (95 years)

Duane Calvin Acker is an American academic. He served as the president of Kansas State University from 1975 to 1986. Acker attended Iowa State University and Oklahoma State University and holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in animal husbandry. He has taught at Iowa State University, Kansas State University, South Dakota State University, and the University of Nebraska. He also served as administrator of the International Cooperation and Development and Foreign Agricultural Service from 1990 to 1993, and as assistant secretary of USDA for Science and Education.

#4386

Scott Guggenheim

#90986

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Scott Guggenheim is an American expert in international development and senior advisor to Afghan president Ashraf Ghani. He was formerly lead social scientist for East Asia and Pacific at the World Bank. He is also the senior social policy adviser for the AusAID-Indonesia Partnership Program.

#4387

Marvin Hoffenberg

#94783

Overall Influence

1914 - 2013 (99 years)

Marvin Hoffenberg was an American economist and political scientist. He was an economist for the United States Department of Labor, the RAND Corporation, Johns Hopkins University's Operations Research Office, and The Aerospace Corporation. He was a Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1965 to 1986.

#4388

George Lee

#187441

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

George Lee is an Irish economist, journalist, television and radio presenter, and former Fine Gael politician. He has worked for RTÉ since 1992. Since 2019, he has been Environment Correspondent for RTÉ News. He previously was Economics Editor in 1996.

#4389

Stefaan Verhulst

#110643

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Stefaan G. Verhulst is the co-founder and chief research and development officer of The Governance Laboratory at New York University. His research and writing considers how advances in technology and science can be harnessed to create effective and collaborative forms of governance.

#4390

Andrea Rossi

#142018

Overall Influence

Andrea Rossi is a Development Economist working on human rights. He was the Director of the Measurement and Human Rights Program at the Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, where he was a policy Fellow. He is currently working for the United Nations as an economic and social policy advisor.

#4391

Lili Yan Ing

#184785

Overall Influence

Lili Yan Ing is an Indonesian economist. Dr Ing has been appointed as the Lead Advisor to the Minister of Trade of Indonesia since November 2017. Dr Ing served as a Senior Advisor on Trade and Investment at the President’s Office of the Republic of Indonesia from 2015 to 2016. Prior to her current position, she was a Senior Economist at the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia ERIA, serving as a Senior Advisor on Trade and Investment for the Southeast Asian region from 2012 to 2015, and an economist with the World Bank, from 2009 to 2012.

#4392

Wendy B. Libby

#104959

Overall Influence

Wendy B. Libby, a native of Brooklyn, New York, is an American college administrator. She attended Cornell University and received a Bachelor's in 1972, an MBA from Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management in 1977. She earned her doctorate in Educational Administration from the University of Connecticut in 1994. She was president of Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, the second oldest women's institute in America, from 2003 to 2009. She was named the ninth president of Stetson University in July 2009.

#4393

William Ronan

#83075

Overall Influence

1912 - 2014 (102 years)

William John Ronan was an American public servant and academic who founded and served as the first chairman of New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority, from 1968 to 1974. He subsequently served as chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey from 1974 until 1977 and remained on the board of the Port Authority until 1990. Prior to entering state government as a key aide to Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York in 1958, he was a professor of government at New York University and served as dean of NYU's graduate school of public service from 1953 to 1958.

#4394

John E. Corbally

#175631

Overall Influence

1924 - 2004 (80 years)

John Edward Corbally Jr. was an American academic administrator and university president. Corbally led Syracuse University from 1969 to 1971 before becoming president of the University of Illinois system from 1971 to 1979. He held roles in numerous non-profit organizations, including a decade as the first president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

#4395

Daryl Dixon

#190958

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Daryl Albert Dixon is an Australian economic and investment writer and consultant. Presently the Executive Chairman of Dixon Advisory and Superannuation Services, he writes regular columns on personal investing, economic commentary and self managed superannuation in The Canberra Times, Australian Financial Review, The Australian and the former Smart Investor magazine.

#4396

Sachin Gupta

#171804

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Sachin Gupta is a marketing science academic, the Henrietta Louis Johnson Professor of Management and Professor of Marketing in the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York State, and the editor-in-chief of the American Marketing Association's Journal of Marketing Research, He is known for his work on marketing strategy, international marketing and management communication.

#4397

David H. Webber

David H. Webber

#66501

Overall Influence

David H. Webber is the author of The Rise of the Working Class Shareholder: Labor's Last Best Weapon and Associate Dean for Intellectual Life at Boston University School of Law, where he writes about shareholder activism and litigation.

#4398

Paul Lewis

#68121

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Paul Lewis is Professor of English in Boston College, Massachusetts, United States, specializing in humor, American literature and Gothic fiction. He has an A.B. from the City College of New York, a M.A.: University of Manitoba, Ph.D.: University of New Hampshire.

#4399

Graciana del Castillo

#190674

Overall Influence

Graciana del Castillo was a Uruguayan economist, professor, writer, businesswoman, and international strategist. At the age of nineteen, she settled in New York City, United States. She studied economics, and received her master's and doctorate degrees at Columbia University, where she was also a professor. She worked at the United Nations International Monetary Fund, specializing in designing economic policies for El Salvador, Kosovo and Afghanistan. She co-founded the consulting firm Macroeconomics Advisory Group with Mario Blejer.

#4400

Sem Vermeersch

#101926

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Sem Andre Claudine Vermeersch is a Belgian academician, editor, author, administrator and professor of Buddhism at Seoul National University. Early life Vermeersch's undergraduate experience at the University of Ghent was followed by further studies at Anhui Normal University in China. In 1992, Vermeersch studied Korean at the Jungsin Cultural Research Center in Seoul. His PhD was conferred by the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. His 2001 doctoral thesis was entitled "The Power of Buddha."

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