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List of the most influential people in Economics,

#4401

Trevor Tombe

#186732

Overall Influence

Trevor Tombe is a Canadian economist has published articles in American Economic Review, Journal of Monetary Economics, Review of Economic Dynamics, and Canadian Journal of Economics, among others. Trevor is also a regular contributor to The Hub.

#4402

Jin Yugan

#169300

Overall Influence

1937 - 2006 (69 years)

Jin Yugan was a Chinese paleontologist and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is distinguished by his research on the stratigraphy of the Carboniferous and Permian. Biography Jin was born in Dongyang County, Zhejiang, on 26 December 1937. Jin graduated in 1959 from the Department of Geology and Paleontology at Nanjing University and was involved in the study of brachiopods. In 1987, he joined the Chinese Communist Party. In 1989, he founded China's first open laboratory for paleobiology and stratigraphy. Subsequently, he conducted research at Meishan, Sichuan, where the Permian and the transition to the Triassic are well preserved.

#4403

Dirk Zupancic

#57144

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Dirk Zupancic is a German academic. He was president and professor for management and management education at the private German Graduate School of Management and Law as well as professor and leader of the Competence Center for Business-to-Business Marketing at the University of St. Gallen.

#4404

Ben Klemens

#70979

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Ben Klemens is an Australian economist, author, and co-host of the podcast 'Pod, Paper, Scissors'. He works for the US Treasury Department and was previously a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution's Center on Social and Economic Dynamics. He holds a PhD in Social Sciences from Caltech.

#4405

Dale Rogers Marshall

#39859

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Dale Rogers Marshall was an American political scientist and academic administrator, the sixth president of Wheaton College from 1992 to 2004. Biography Marshall, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, earned her bachelor’s degree, with high honors, in government from Cornell University and a master’s degree in political science from University of California, Berkeley, where she studied as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. She then obtained a Ph.D. in Political Science from UCLA in 1969, where she held a Regents Fellowship. She holds an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Law from Wheaton College .

#4406

Ferdinand Mélin-Soucramanien

#89678

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Ferdinand Mélin-Soucramanien is a French professor of Law. He was appointed President of the Institut national du service public in 2022 by President Emmanuel Macron. Education and early career Born in February 10, 1966 in Aix-en-Provence he studied Literature in Réunion then the Law before becoming a doctor of law at Aix-Marseille University and then a lecturer there. He was also professor of Constitutional law at University of Bordeaux IV.

#4407

Ruth Lea, Baroness Lea of Lymm

#187952

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Ruth Jane Lea, Baroness Lea of Lymm, is a British parliamentarian and pro-Brexit political economist. Lady Lea entered HM Civil Service, before being recruited by the Institute of Directors, a private-sector employer lobbyist, as well as working for policy research bodies and the media. She was Arbuthnot Banking Group's Economic Adviser from 2007 to 2022 and served as an Independent Non-Executive Director from 2005 until 2016.

#4408

Teshome Gabriel

#21033

Overall Influence

1939 - 2010 (71 years)

Teshome H. Gabriel was an Ethiopian-born American cinema scholar and professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in Los Angeles. Gabriel was considered an expert on cinema and film of Africa and the developing world. A colleague at UCLA, Vinay Lal, noted that Gabriel was "one of the first scholars to theorize in a critical fashion about Third World cinema."

#4409

Glenda Glover

#21756

Overall Influence

Glenda Baskin Glover, Ph.D, J.D., CPA, began serving as the eighth president of Tennessee State University on January 2, 2013. Early life and education Glover was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and was raised in the Weaver Road vicinity near Boxtown. She began her educational development as a student at Tennessee State University, where she majored in mathematics. After graduating with honors with a Bachelor of Science degree, she earned the Master of Business Administration at Clark Atlanta University in 1976. She completed her doctorate in business from George Washington University in 1990, a...

#4410

Joy Kwesiga

#167668

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Joy Constance Kwesiga is a Ugandan academic, academic administrator, gender specialist, and community activist. She is the vice chancellor of Kabale University, a public institution of higher education in Uganda and accredited by the Uganda National Council for Higher Education in 2005.

#4411

Tag Gronberg

#90001

Overall Influence

Theresa Ann "Tag" Gronberg is an art historian with Birkbeck College, University of London. She is a specialist in the art of the Vienna Secession and Viennese coffeehouse culture. Her research interests also include gender and visual culture in 1920s France.

#4412

Jim Gatheral

#175467

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Jim Gatheral is a researcher in the field of mathematical finance, who has contributed to the study of volatility as applied to the pricing and risk management of derivatives. A recurrent subject in his books and papers is the volatility smile, and he published in 2006 a book The Volatility Surface based on a course he taught for six years at New York University, along with Nassim Taleb. More recently his work has moved in the direction of market microstructure, especially as applied to algorithmic trading. He is the author of The Volatility Surface: A Practitioner's Guide.

#4413

John R. Rosenberg

#72813

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

John R. Rosenberg is currently the Washington Irving Professor of Spanish and American Relations at Brigham Young University . Rosenberg holds bachelor's and master's degrees from BYU and master's and PhD degrees from Cornell University.

#4414

Gao Shangquan

#182183

Overall Influence

1929 - 2021 (92 years)

Gao Shangquan was a Chinese economist. From 1985 to 1993, Gao was vice chairman of the National Economic System Reform Committee. From 1998 to 2003 he was a member of the 9th National Committee and director of the Chinese Society for Economic System Reform.

#4415

Hao Ping

#127101

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Hao Ping is a Chinese historian and academic administrator who has served as the party secretary of Peking University since June 2022. He served as president of Peking University from 2018 to 2022, Chinese vice minister of education from 2009 to 2016, and president of Beijing Foreign Studies University from 2005 to 2009.

#4416

Eva M Meyersson Milgrom

#172246

Overall Influence

Eva Maria Meyersson Milgrom is a Swedish-born American social scientist publishing both in economic and sociology academic journals. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology at Stockholm University in 1992.

#4417

Clifton R. Wharton Jr.

#188835

Overall Influence

1926 - Present (100 years)

Clifton Reginald Wharton Jr. is an American university president, corporate executive and former United States deputy secretary of state. In his multiple careers, he has been an African-American pioneer.

#4418

Jean-Guy Paquet

#190330

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Jean-Guy Paquet, is a Canadian scientist, businessman, and former rector of Université Laval. Born in Montmagny, Quebec, he received a Doctor of Electrical Engineering from Université Laval in 1963. From 1967 to 1969, he was the head of the electrical engineering department at Université Laval. From 1969 to 1972, he was a vice-rector of Université Laval and he was rector from 1977 to 1987. He was the youngest-ever president of a Canadian university and the second engineer to become rector at Laval.

#4419

Mohammad Shahid Alam

#184473

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Muhammad Shahid Alam is a Pakistani economist, academic, and social scientist. He is a professor of economics at Northeastern University. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Policy Research & Development, London.

#4420

Mohammad Bagher Nobakht

#122432

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Mohammad Bagher Nobakht Haghighi is an Iranian politician and economist. He was Hassan Rouhani's advisor for Supervision and Strategic Affairs and also was the Head of Plan and Budget Organization from 2016 to 2021. He was Spokesman of the Government from 2013 to 2018. He is also the former Head of Management and Planning Organization and secretary-general of the Moderation and Development Party.

#4421

Jordi Nadal

#74450

Overall Influence

1929 - 2020 (91 years)

Jordi Nadal was a Spanish economist and historian. He earned a doctorate in history from the University of Barcelona and became a professor at the University of Valencia and Pompeu Fabra University.

#4422

Michael Chernew

#189018

Overall Influence

Michael E. Chernew is an American expert in the field of health economics. He is a member of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine. Chernew graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree and his PhD in economics is from Stanford University, where he focused on applied microeconomics and econometrics.

#4423

Thomas Phleps

#71199

Overall Influence

1955 - 2017 (62 years)

Thomas Phleps was a German guitarist and musicologist. Life Born in Bad Hersfeld, Phleps studieded at the Philipps-Universität Marburg and the University of Kassel and completed his studies in 1981 and 1983 respectively with state examinations for the teaching profession in the subjects music, German and philosophy.

#4424

Roberto Laserna

#115808

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Roberto Laserna is a Bolivian and Spanish writer and economist who earned a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in regional planning. Career He won the Literary National Prize Franz Tamayo in 1976 before becoming a scientist. His book 20 conceptions on coca and cocaine addresses drug policy and development problems, and La democracia en el ch`enko explains one of the most neglected causes of economic stagnation: economic heterogeneity. In his later book "La Trampa del Rentismo" Laserna presents his theory on the Rent-seeking trap, and explores the influence of the abundance of nat...

#4425

Andreas Grünschloß

#9425

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Andreas Gruenschloss is a German scholar and the current Professor of Religious Studies at University of Göttingen. An ordained Protestant pastor, he is the author of books and scholarly articles about interfaith matters and new religious movements. He publishes both in German and in English and is a co-editor of the Marburg Journal of Religion.

#4426

Rosen Plevneliev

#187089

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Rosen Asenov Plevneliev is a Bulgarian politician who was the 4th President of Bulgaria, holding the position from January 2012 to January 2017. He was the Minister of Regional Development and Public Works from July 2009 to September 2011 as part of the cabinet of Boyko Borisov. In October 2011, Plevneliev was elected as President in a second round of voting; he was inaugurated on 18 January 2012.

#4427

Sérgio Dias Branco

#89418

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Sérgio Dias Branco is a film critic, film and television theorist, philosopher, theologian, and trade unionist. He is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the University of Coimbra and a member of the Executive Board of the General Confederation of the Portuguese Workers , the largest trade union federation in Portugal.

#4428

Richard Kneedler

#104087

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Richard Kneedler is President Emeritus of Franklin & Marshall College. From 2005-2006 he served as chairman of the Pennsylvania Governor's Commission on Training America's Teachers. From 2006-2008, he served as interim president of Rockford College. He served as Interim President of Wilson College in 2019.

#4429

J. Sterling Livingston

J. Sterling Livingston

#183219

Overall Influence

1916 - 2010 (94 years)

J. Sterling Livingston was an American entrepreneur, management consultant, and professor at the Harvard Business School for 25 years. Early life Sterling was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on June 7, 1916, and grew up in and near Chino, Glendale and Pomona, California. He worked as a wiper on board a cargo ship, then attended Glendale Junior College, the University of Southern California and the Harvard Business School, where he received his Master of Business Administration in 1940. During the Second World War he taught the Navy Supply Corps.

#4430

Rajan Hoole

#24693

Overall Influence

Michael Richard Ratnarajan Hoole is a Sri Lankan Tamil mathematician, academic and human rights activist. He was one of the founders of University Teachers for Human Rights which documented human rights abuses during the Sri Lankan Civil War.

#4431

Chetana Nagavajara

#116503

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Chetana Nagavajara is a Professor Emeritus of German language at Silpakorn University, a public university in Thailand. He is a former Dean of Faculty of Arts and Vice President of that university and also served in various government-appointed roles for higher education administrations in the country. As a scholar, his early work includes comparative literature and German literature. He authored books and articles for general and academic audiences in his mother-tongue, Thai as well as English and German. Through his writings and public talks, Nagavajara is later known in Thailand for his ...

#4432

Frank L. Clarke

#94033

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Francis L. "Frank" Clarke is an Australian business economist, and Emeritus Professor of Accounting at University of Newcastle. He is best known for his 1997 publication of "Corporate collapse: Regulatory, accounting and ethical failure."

#4433

Stefanie von Schnurbein

#72084

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Baroness Stefanie Anna Hildegard von Schnurbein is a German literary scholar, and Professor of Modern Scandinavian Literature at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Biography She belongs to the Schnurbein family, originally from South Tyrol . In the late 16th century the Schnurbein family settled in Augsburg, where they became wealthy silk merchants and members of the free imperial city's hereditary ruling class, the patriciate. The family was ennobled by the Holy Roman Emperor in 1697 and raised to Baronial rank in 1741.

#4434

Nicholas Hughes

#42455

Overall Influence

1962 - 2009 (47 years)

Nicholas Farrar Hughes was a British and American fisheries biologist known as an expert in stream salmonid ecology. Hughes was the son of the American poet Sylvia Plath and English poet Ted Hughes, and the younger brother of artist and poet Frieda Hughes. He and his sister were public figures as small children due to the circumstances of their mother's widely publicized suicide.

#4435

Thealzel Lee

#192169

Overall Influence

#4436

Wiseman Lumkile Nkuhlu

#192177

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Wiseman Lumkile Nkuhlu GCOB in Cala, Eastern Cape. Wiseman became South Africa's first qualified black chartered accountant. He served as an economic advisory for President Thabo Mbeki from 2000-2004 and chaired the Development Bank of Southern Africa Transmition team from January to May 1995. He is the Chancellor of the University of Pretoria and Chairman of N M Rothschild & Sons in South Africa.

#4437

Edmund Harold Crane

#192180

Overall Influence

#4438

Sun Qixiang

#192195

Overall Influence

Qixiang Sun is associate dean of Peking University's school of economics and chair and C. V. Starr Professor in the Department of Risk Management and Insurance. She also is member and administrative director of the China Finance Council's academic research committee.

#4439

Yeon Cheon Oh

#43660

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Yeon Cheon Oh is a South Korean academic. He served as the president of Seoul National University from 2010 to 2014, and as president of University of Ulsan since 2015. Early life Oh received his B.A. degree in political science from Seoul National University in 1984. In 1982, he received his Ph.D. degree in public administration from New York University in the United States.

#4440

Per-Martin Meyerson

#191640

Overall Influence

1927 - 2013 (86 years)

Per-Martin Meyerson, born 21 August 1927 in Stockholm, Sweden, died 18 August 2013 in Dalhalla, Sweden, was a Swedish economist, an entrepreneur and a policy maker. Early career After earning a PhD in economics at Stockholm University, Per-Martin Meyerson was recruited to the Swedish Federation of Industries – since 2001 merged into the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise – and worked as an economic expert and lobbyist. Dr Meyerson was a policy writer all his professional life. He participated in public debates on topics ranging from foreign direct investments, entrepreneurship, corporate gov...

#4441

Chris Sier

#124408

Overall Influence

Chris Sier is a professor at Newcastle University Business School. He has been appointed by the Financial Conduct Authority to chair its working group on disclosure of costs and charges for institutional investors.

#4442

Grigorii Khanin

Grigorii Khanin

#51240

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Grigorii Isaakovich Khanin is a Russian economist best known for his 1987 recalculation of official Soviet Union's economic growth statistics. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he began recalculating Russian economic statistics. His recalculations differed substantially from the official figures, particularly for the value of the capital stock.

#4443

Ruth de Krivoy

#84443

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Ruth Osterreicher de Krivoy is a Venezuelan economist specialized on political, monetary and fiscal dynamics. During the early 1970s, she had been vice president of research at the Central Bank of Venezuela, where she played an active role in strengthening economic research as a major instrument of support for monetary policy. In 1992, two months after an attempted coup d'état by Hugo Chavez, she became president of the Central Bank of Venezuela. Her appointment seemed a natural choice, given both her extensive experience and her firm belief in Central Bank independence. She resigned in 1994, amid the Venezuelan banking crisis.

#4444

Hisao Ōtsuka

#69117

Overall Influence

1907 - 1996 (89 years)

Hisao Ōtsuka was a Japanese historian, founder of an influential historiographic school in postwar Japan known as the Ōtsuka Historical School.

#4445

Patricia Danzon

#192223

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Patricia Danzon is an American economist, currently the Cecilia Moh Professor at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Bibliography

#4446

Mirco Modolo

#192274

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (43 years)

#4447

Beth Stetson

#75933

Overall Influence

Beth Stetson is an American economist, currently the Charles C. and Virginia Ann Weddle Professor of Accounting at University of Oklahoma.

#4448

Simon Price

#108980

Overall Influence

1954 - 2011 (57 years)

Simon Rowland Francis Price was an English classical scholar, specializing in the imperial cult of ancient Rome. Personal life He was born in London and was the son of the Anglican bishop Hetley Price.

#4449

Magda Fusaro

#123400

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Magda Fusaro is a university professor and academic administrator. From December 2006 to March 2018, she held the UNESCO Chair in Communication and Technologies for Development. In January 2018, she was appointed rector of the Université du Québec à Montréal .

#4450

Joseph Stıglıtz

#192308

Overall Influence

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