- Manmohan Singh
Dr. Manmohan Singh is the 17<sup>th</sup> and current Prime Minister of India. Dr. Singh is a member of the Indian National Congress party and became the first Sikh to become Prime Minister of India on May 22, 2004. He is arguably the most educated Indian Prime Minister in history. He is considered one of the most qualified and influential figures in India's recent history, … - Martin Feldstein
Martin S. Feldstein Professor of Economics Harvard University President and Chief Executive Officer National Bureau of Economic Research - Paul Craig Roberts
Paul Craig Roberts is an economist and a nationally syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate. He served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration earning fame as the "Father of Reaganomics". He is a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Scripps Howard News Service. He is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology and he holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. - Robert Reich
Robert B. Reich is Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton . He has written eleven books, including The Work of Nations , which has been translated into 22 languages; the best-sellers The Future of Success and Locked in the Cabinet , and his most recent book, Supercapitalism . - Robert Higgs
Robert Higgs is Senior Fellow in Political Economy for The Independent Institute and Editor of the Institutes quarterly journal The Independent Review . He received his Ph.D. in economics from Johns Hopkins University, and he has taught at the University of Washington, Lafayette College, Seattle University, and the University of Economics, Prague. - Robin Hanson
Robin Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University. He is known as an expert on idea futures markets and was involved in the creation of the Foresight Exchange and DARPA's FutureMAP project. Hanson has expressed great disappointment in the cancellation of the FutureMAP project, and he attributes this to the controversy surrounding the related Total Information Awareness program. - Charles Kennedy
Charles Kennedy (1923 - November 4 1997 was a Scottish economist, often considered one of the finest theorists of his generation. He was born into a large family, the youngest of five sons; he was the son of George Kennedy, an architect, and grandson of the painter Charles Napier Kennedy. A gifted child, he was educated at Gordonstoun, and entered Balliol College, Oxford at the age of seventeen. His tutor there was Thomas Balogh. - Michael Spence
Michael Spence (born November 7, 1943) is an American-born, Canadian-raised economist and recipient of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, along with George A. Akerlof and Joseph E. Stiglitz, for their work on the dynamics of information flows and market development. He conducted this research while at Stanford University. In the current technological environment - with ever more abundant information flows about market development, prices, profit margins, … - Ricardo Hausmann
Ricardo Hausmann is a former Venezuelan Minister of State and Head of the "Presidential Office of Coordination and Planning" (1992-1993) and actual Director of Harvard's Center for International Development and a Professor of the Practice of Economic Development at John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. - Neil Shephard
Neil Shephard (born October 8, 1964), FBA, is a British economist, currently Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and Research Director of the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance. He is also a Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford and was Director of the Oxford Financial Research Centre from 2006-2007. His work is predominantly on time series econometrics and financial econometrics. - Paul Seabright
Paul Seabright is Professor of Economics at the University of Toulouse, France. Formerly a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and of Churchill College, Cambridge, where he was lecturer and then Reader until 2001, he is a contributor to the London Review of Books. Seabright is also the Chairman of Bruegel's Scientific Council, Managing Editor of Economic Policy (since 2001) and Research Fellow of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (since 1989). - Evan Davis
Evan Robert Davis (born April 8 1962 in Ashtead, Surrey) is a British economist and journalist; he has been the BBC's economics editor since October 2001, replacing Peter Jay. He attended The Ashcombe School, Dorking, and later Davis studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St John's College, Oxford from 1981 to 1984 and obtained an MPA at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. - Colin Clark
Colin Grant Clark (November 2, 1905 - September 4, 1989) was a British economist and statistician who worked in both the United Kingdom and Australia, and who pioneered the use of the gross national product ("GNP") as the basis for studying national economies. Colin Clark was born in London. He was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford, then at Winchester College, and from 1924 at Brasenose College, Oxford where he studied chemistry. - James Mirrlees
Professor Sir James Mirrlees, FBA (born 5 July 1936, Minnigaff, Wigtownshire Scotland) is a Scottish economist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Economics. He was knighted in 1998. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a very active student debater. He taught at both Oxford (1969-1995) and Cambridge (1963- and 1995-). - Ian MacFarlane
Ian Macfarlane AC (born 22 June, 1946), Australian economist, and Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), Australia's central bank, from 1996 to September 17, 2006. He is also former Chairman of the Payments System Board of the Reserve Bank and Chairman of the Council of Financial Regulators. Macfarlane was educated at Monash University, Melbourne and tutored in economics there before joining the RBA in 1970. - Andrew Dilnot
Andrew William Dilnot CBE (born 19 June 1960), economist and broadcaster, has been Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford since October 2002. He is the presenter of BBC Radio 4's series on numbers, "More or Less" and of documentaries for British television. Dilnot was Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies from 1991 to 2002. He is an Honorary Fellow of St John's College, Oxford and of the Institute of Actuaries, … - Les Aspin
Leslie "Les" Aspin, Jr. (July 21, 1938 - May 21, 1995) was a United States Congressman from 1971 to 1993, and the United States Secretary of Defense under President Bill Clinton from January 21, 1993 to February 3, 1994. - Kenneth E. Boulding
Kenneth Ewart Boulding (January 18 1910 - March 18 1993) was an economist, educator, peace activist, poet, religious mystic, devoted Quaker, systems scientist, and interdisciplinary philosopher. He was born in Liverpool, England, graduated from Oxford University, and granted United States citizenship in 1948. During the years 1949 to 1967, he was a faculty member of the University of Michigan. - Jerry A. Hausman
Jerry A. Hausman is the John and Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a famous econometrician. He has also published numerous papers in applied microeconomics. He is the recipient of several prestigious awards including the John Bates Clark Medal in 1985 and the Frisch Medal in 1980. He is perhaps most well known for his development of the Hausman Specification Test, … - Nurul Islam
Professor Nurul Islam was successively Professor of Economics, Dhaka University, Director of the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (later Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies), Deputy Chairman of the first Planning Commission of Bangladesh. From 1975 onwards he was a Fellow at St. Antony's College at Oxford University, Assistant Director General of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, … - Eric Lander
Eric Steven Lander (b. February 3, 1957) is a Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a member of the Whitehead Institute, and director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard who has devoted his career toward realizing the promise of the human genome for medicine. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1974 and then attended Princeton University. - Wu Jinglian
Wu Jinglian is one of the preeminent economists of the People's Republic of China (PRC), primarily specializing in economic policy as it applies to China's ongoing series of economic reforms. Wu currently (as of 2006) holds multiple positions, … - Edward Lucas
Edward Lucas (born 1962) is a British journalist. Lucas works for "The Economist", the London-based global newsweekly. He has been covering eastern Europe since 1986, and was the Moscow bureau chief from 1998-2002. He is now the central and east European correspondent. He speaks English, German, Russian, Polish, Lithuanian and Czech. He was educated at Winchester College and the London School of Economics. - Neil de Marchi
Neil De Marchi is an Australian economist and historian of economic thought. He received a B.Ec. from the University of Western Australia. He attended Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and completed a B.Phil. in economics before returning to Australia to teach at Monash University. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Australian National University. With interruptions (1966-77 at the University of Amsterdam, … - Shankar Acharya
Dr. Shankar Acharya (b. October, 1945) is an Indian economist. He is currently the Reserve Bank Chair Professor at the ICRIER. He is also a member of the Prime Minister's Economic advisory council. In 1967, he graduated from the Oxford University and in 1972, he obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from the Harvard University. He was the Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Oxford in 2000 and Stanford University in 2002. - Sanjeev Sanyal
Sanjeev Sanyal is an Indian economist based in Singapore. He is currently Director, Global Markets Research at Deutsche Bank and Adjunct Fellow of the Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore. His work on Asia's fast growing economies is widely read and quoted. He played an important role in changing the image of India as an international investment destination. He is one of Asia's leading experts on the economics of large cities and financial hubs. - Geraint Johnes
Geraint Johnes is Professor of Economics at Lancaster University Management School. He was previously Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader in Economics at Lancaster, and has spent periods as a visitor to institutions in the USA (Dartmouth College, Lehigh University) and Australia (Australian National University). He is also currently an honorary visiting professor at Beijing Normal University, and is an associate fellow of SKOPE at Oxford University and Cardiff University. - Alasdair Smith
Alasdair Smith is currently a professor of economics and Vice-Chancellor at the University of Sussex. He is a noted international economist whose studies (often developed in concert with fellow economist Tony Venables) have been used by the European Union. Smith was born on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland. He is a graduate of the London School of Economics and Oxford University. - Tom Standage
Tom Standage is a journalist and author from England. A graduate of Oxford University, he has worked as a science and technology writer for "The Guardian", as the business editor at "The Economist", has been published in "Wired", "The New York Times", and "The Daily Telegraph", and has published four books. - Richard Farleigh
Richard Farleigh (born November 9, 1960) is an Australian private investor. He is currently a member of the "Business Review Weekly" Rich 200 list, a list of the 200 wealthiest Australian individuals. Born in Kyabram, Victoria, Farleigh was one of eleven siblings. His father, a labourer and sheep shearer who moved around Australia with his wife and eleven children, was a violent alcoholic. - Alfred Hayes
Alfred Hayes (1910 - October, 1989) was an American banker and an expert in international finance. Hayes was born in Ithaca, New York. He was a student at Harvard College before transferring to Yale, where he completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in chemistry. He then studied for a year at the Harvard Business School before attending New College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. - Lloyd Best
Lloyd Algernon Best (b. February 27 1934 - d. March 19 2007) was a Trinidadian intellectual, columnist, professor, and economist. Best attended the Tacarigua Anglican School and Queen's Royal College, in Port of Spain. He won an island scholarship and graduated from the University of Cambridge and Oxford University. In 1957 Best joined the Faculty of the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica as a Research Fellow. He remained as a Professor in Economics until 1976, … - Dov S. Zakheim
Dov S. Zakheim is a former official of the United States government. Zakheim earned his bachelor's degree in government from Columbia University in 1970, and his doctorate in economics and politics at St. Antony's College, Oxford University. He has been an adjunct professor at the National War College, Yeshiva University, Columbia University and Trinity College, where he was presidential scholar. - Alastair Burnet
Sir Alastair Burnet (born July 12, 1928) is a British journalist and broadcaster, known for his work in news and current affairs programming. He was educated at The Leys School, a boys' independent school in Cambridge and at Worcester College, Oxford. He was once one of the most recognisable faces in British television news, as presenter of ITN's prestigious "News at Ten", probably the most well-known of all regular news bulletins in the UK. - Rick Levin
Richard Charles Levin (b. 1947) is an American economist, who has served as president of Yale University since 1993. He is currently the longest serving Ivy League president still in office. Born in San Francisco, California to Jewish-American parents, Levin graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco in 1964. At Lowell, he was a member of the Lowell Forensic Society and debated in high school debate tournaments regionally. - William Broyles Jr.
William Broyles Jr. was brn October 8, 1944 in Houston, Texas, and was raised in Baytown, Texas. He attended Rice University, earning a B.A. in History in 1966. While at Rice, Broyles was an active member of the student body and a contributing editor to the student newspaper, The Rice Thresher. As early as 1966, Broyles was also contributing articles to the Houston Post. Broyles served as president of the Rice student association during the 1965-1966 academic year, … - William Hurrell Mallock
William Hurrell Mallock was an English author. He was educated privately and then at Balliol College, Oxford. He won the Newdigate prize in 1872 and took a second class in the final classical schools in 1874, securing his Bachelor of Arts degree from Oxford University. He attracted considerable attention by his satirical novel "The New Republic" (1878), in which he introduced characters easily recognized as such prominent individuals as Matthew Arnold, … - Dick Sabot
Richard "Dick" Sabot (February 16 1944 - July 6 2005) was an economist, scholar, farmer, and Internet pioneer who was co-founder of Tripod.com, one of the first and most successful dot-coms, in 1992. (It was subsequently sold to Lycos in 1998) He was also a co-founder of Eziba (later acquired by Overstock.com), an Internet venture which sold handcrafted goods from artisans around the world. He was a professor emeritus of economics at Williams College, … - Keith Kyle
Keith Kyle was a writer, broadcaster and historian. He was born in Sturminster Newton, Dorset on 4 August 1925 and educated at Bromsgrove School and Magdalen College, Oxford University. He worked for the BBC and The Economist. He died in London on 21 February 2007. - Henry Angus
Henry Forbes Angus (April 19, 1891 - September 17, 1991) was a Canadian lawyer and academic. Born in Victoria, British Columbia, he received a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University in 1911. He received a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Civil Law from Oxford University in 1914. He was awarded the Vinerian Scholarship. He fought in India during World War I. After the war, he received a Master of Arts from Oxford University.
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