James Wolfensohn

James Wolfensohn

male, 75 years old (Washington, District of Columbia, United States)
President of the World Bank for the past decade, has confirmed he will retire from his post later this year. He told the ABC television network in...
Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen

male, 76 years old
Amartya Kumar Sen CH (Hon) ("Ômorto Kumar Shen") (born 3 November 1933), is an Indian economist, philosopher, and a winner of the Bank of Sweden P...
Nicholas Stern

Nicholas Stern

male, 63 years old
Sir Nicholas Stern, FBA (born 22 April 1946) is a British economist and academic. He was the Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World...
Shaha Riza

Shaha Riza

female
Shaha Ali Riza, (born 1953 or 1954), is a World Bank staffer who is currently on external assignment. She was forced to leave her position as...

William Easterly

male
William Easterly is Professor of Economics at New York University, joint with Africa House, and Co-Director of NYU’s Development Research In...
Robert McNamara

Robert McNamara

male, 93 years old
Robert Strange McNamara (born June 9, 1916) is an American business executive and a former United States Secretary of Defense. McNamara served as...
Joseph E. Stiglitz

Joseph E. Stiglitz

male, 66 years old (New York, New York, United States)
Economist Joseph Stiglitz argues that the U.S. government should address the mortgage crisis by providing aid directly to homeowners, rather than...
Stanley Fischer

Stanley Fischer

male, deceased (1943) (Zambia)
Stanley Fischer has been Governor of the Bank of Israel since May 2005. Prior to joining the Bank of Israel, Prof. Fischer was Vice Chairman of...
Employment: Vice President, Development Economics and Chief Economist - the World Bank
Lant Pritchett

Lant Pritchett

male, 50 years old
Lant Pritchett is an American developmental economist. He was born in Utah in 1959 and raised in Boise, Idaho. He graduated from Brigham Young...
Willem Buiter

Willem Buiter

male
Willem Buiter was a member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee from June 1997-May 2000. He joined the London School of Economics as...