- Dani Rodrik
Dani Rodrik , who chairs the Advisory Committee of the Center for Global Development, is Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy in the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. ... Professor Rodrik is the research coordinator for the Group of 24 (G-24), a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London).
- Rod Oram
Rod Oram has more than 30 years' experience as an international financial journalist, working for leading publications such as the Financial Times of London. Rod is currently a columnist for the Sunday Star-Times; a radio and television broadcaster; a frequent public speaker; and an adjunct professor at Unitec.
- Michael Porter
Michael Eugene Porter is an American academic focused on management and economics. He has made important contributions to strategic management and strategy theory, Porter's main academic objectives focus on how a firm or a region can build a competitive advantage and develop competitive strategy. Porter's strategic system consists primarily of: * 5 forces analysis * strategic groups (also called strategic sets) * the value chain * the generic strategies of cost leadership, …
- Nicholas Stern
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 Bank from 2000 to 2003, and is now a civil servant and government economic advisor in the United Kingdom. After attending Latymer Upper School, he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and his Doctor of Philosophy in economics at Nuffield College, Oxford.
- Paul Hawken
Paul Hawken (b. 4 February 1946) is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist, and best-selling author. At age 20, he dedicated his life to changing the relationship between business and the environment, and between human and living systems in order to create a more just and sustainable world. His work includes starting and running ecological businesses, writing and teaching about the impact of commerce upon the environment, …
- Mancur Olson
Mancur Olson, Jr. (1932 - February 19, 1998) was a leading American economist and social scientist who, at the time of his death, worked at the University of Maryland, College Park. Among other areas, he made contributions to institutional economics on the role of private property, taxation, public goods, collective action and contract rights in economic development. Olson focused on the logical basis of interest group membership and participation.
- Lant Pritchett
Lant Pritchett is an American developmental economist. He was born in Utah in 1959 and raised in Boise, Idaho. He graduated from Brigham Young University, majoring in Economics, after serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Argentina (1978-1980). He was a contributor to the first Copenhagen Consensus. He currently works for the World Bank.
- 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.
- Dave Freudenthal
David Duane "Dave" Freudenthal (born October 12, 1950) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Wyoming. A Democrat, Freudenthal is currently the governor of Wyoming, having been re-elected to a second term on 7 November, 2006. Freudenthal was born in Thermopolis, Wyoming, the seventh of eight children, and grew up on a farm north of town. He graduated from Amherst College in 1973 with a bachelor's degree in economics.
- Raymond Bachand
Raymond Bachand is a politician, a businessman and a lawyer in Quebec, Canada. He is the Member of the National Assembly of Quebec (MNA) for the riding of Outremont, and a member of the Quebec Liberal Party caucus. He is also the current minister of economic development of innovation and export trade in the cabinet of Premier of Quebec Jean Charest. Bachand was educated at the Collège Stanislas, a somewhat prestigious Roman Catholic private school.
- Angus Deaton
Angus Stewart Deaton, born in 1945 in Scotland, is one of the most recognized micro-economists today. His popularity began when he postulated his famous Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) along with John Muellbauer to compute income, own- and cross-price elasticities using household survey data.
- Daniel L. Doctoroff
Daniel L. Doctoroff is Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding for the City of New York. Under the leadership of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Doctoroff has overseen one of the city’s most dramatic economic resurgences, spearheading the effort to reverse New York’s fiscal crisis after the attacks of 9/11 through a five-borough economic development strategy. This plan includes the most ambitious land-use transformation in the city’s modern history, …
- Wyn Jones
Wyn Jones (b. 1953) is a Welsh politician and Plaid Cymru member standing in the Cardiff North constituency in the National Assembly for Wales election, 2007. Wyn Jones was born in Cardigan and currently lives in Whitchurch, Cardiff ("Caerdydd"). Having attended Carmarthen Boys Grammar School Wyn achieved a BSc and a Masters Degree in Physics from the University of Wales College, Aberystwyth. His tutor at the time was the late Dr Phil Williams.
- Michel Chossudovsky
Michel Chossudovsky is a Canadian economist. He is a professor of economics at the University of Ottawa. Chossudovsky has taught as visiting professor at academic institutions in Western Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia, has acted as economic adviser to governments of developing countries and has worked as a consultant for international organizations including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the African Development Bank, …
- Martha Nussbaum
Martha Nussbaum (born Martha Craven on May 6, 1947) is an American philosopher, with a particular interest in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, political philosophy and ethics. She was born in New York, the daughter of George Craven, a Philadelphia lawyer, and Betty Warren, an interior designer and homemaker. She studied theatre and classics at New York University, getting a Bachelor of Arts in 1969, and gradually moved to philosophy while at Harvard, …
- Noel Pearson
Noel Pearson (born June 25, 1965 in Cooktown, Australia) is an Indigenous Australian lawyer, land rights activist and Director of the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership, an organisation promoting the economic and social development of Cape York. Pearson has for several years strongly argued that Indigenous policy needs to change direction, notably in relation to welfare, substance abuse, child protection, and economic development.
- Albert O. Hirschman
Albert Otto Hirschman (b. April 71915, in Berlin, Germany) is an influential American economist who has authored several books on political economy and political ideology. Among his most important contributions were two simple but intellectually powerful schemata. The first describes the three basic possible responses to decline in firms or polities: Exit, Voice, and Loyalty. The second describes the basic arguments made by conservatives: perversity, futility and jeopardy.
- Dee Doocey
Dee Doocey is a British Liberal Democrat politician and businesswoman. She served as a councillor in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames from 1986 to 1994. She contested the South West London constituency in the 2004 London Assembly elections, but lost to the Conservative Party Tony Arbour by 4,067 votes. However, as the fifth person on the Lib Dem's party list, she was elected as a London-wide member of the London Assembly.
- Henry C.K. Liu
Henry C.K. Liu is an independent commentator on culture, economics and politics. He was born in Hong Kong and educated at Harvard University in architecture and urban design. Liu developed an interest in economics and international relations while working as a professor at UCLA, Harvard and Columbia University on interdisciplinary work on urban and regional development.
- Adebayo Adedeji
Adebayo Adedeji was United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa until 1991. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Professor Adebayo Adedeji –– B.Sc (Economics) London, MPA (Harvard),Ph.D (Economics) London, D.Sc (Econ) Honoris Causa (OAU), LLD Honoris Causa, (Dalhousie University, Canada), University of Zambia and University of Calabar(Nigeria), Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) Honoris Causa, …
- Rocky Delgadillo
So if developers are being allowed to demolish buildings before they get onto Historic Preservation lists, there must be payola there for Rocky. Either the fool's ego is so big he still thinks he has a chance to run for higher office, or he's trying to cash out by taking advantage of his current job before running away in disgrace with his ill-gotten loot. If people really want to look to corruption with developers, look to Rocky.
- Carlota Perez
Carlota Perez is a Venezuelan scholar and expert on technology and socio-economic development most famous for her concept of Techno-Economic Paradigm Shifts and her theory of great surges, a further development of the Kondratieff waves. A related concept used by technology analysts in recent years is that of the Hype cycle.
- M. Shahid Alam
Bio: M. Shahid Alam is a professor of economics at Northeastern University, Boston.
- Peter B. Evans
Peter B. Evans is a sociologist and political scientist, Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Evans has published widely on state society relations, industrial economic development in Brazil and Latin America, civil society, and international development issues. He is thus also related to the international political economy literature.
- Werner Baer
Werner Baer is an economist at the University of Illinois. He received his Bachelor's degree from Queen's College in 1953, and a Master's and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1955 and 1958 respectively. His research centers on Latin America's industrialization and economics development, especially of Brazil. Rafael Correa, the current president of Ecuador, was advised by Baer during his time at Illinois.
- John Hatch
Dr. John Keith Hatch is an American economic development expert and a pioneer in modern day microfinance. He is the founder of FINCA International and the Rural Development Services (RDS), and is famous for innovating village banking, arguably the world’s most widely-imitated microfinance methodology.
- John Elvidge
Sir John Elvidge KCB is Permanent Secretary to the Scottish Executive. He was appointed in July 2003, replacing Sir Muir Russell. He is a graduate in English from the University of Oxford and joined the Scottish Office in 1973, working in most departments, with a particular emphasis on economic development, physical infrastructure and European Union relations. John Elvidge was seconded to Scottish Homes, from 1988-89, and to the Cabinet Office, from 1998 to 1999, …
- Lorraine Hunt
Lorraine T. Hunt (born March 11, 1939 in Niagara Falls, New York) is the former Lieutenant Governor of the U.S. State of Nevada, serving from 1999 to 2007. She was a candidate for the Republican nomination for the 2006 Nevada gubernatorial election. She lost the Republican primary against Congressman Jim Gibbons. Lt. Governor Hunt is the owner of The Bootlegger Bistro, a nightclub long popular with Las Vegas locals and showroom performers.
- Claude Béchard
Claude Béchard is a politician in Quebec, Canada. He is the current Quebec Liberal Party Member of the National Assembly (MNA) for the riding of Kamouraska-Témiscouata in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region. He is also the current Minister of Natural Ressources and Wildlife and was formally the Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment, Parks, Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade.
- Denis Halliday
Denis J. Halliday was born in Ireland and holds an M.A. in Economics, Geography and Public Administration from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Former United Nations Humanitarian Co-ordinator in Iraq (1997-1998). In 2000, Denis Halliday was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize with Kathy Kelly of Voices in the Wilderness, the campaign against sanctions on Iraq.
- Graeme Samuel
Graeme Samuel is Chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. His previous positions include President of the National Competition Council and Chairman of the Melbourne and Olympic Parks Trust. He was also a Commissioner of the Australian Football League. In 1998, Mr Samuel was appointed an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia.
- Sudha Shenoy
Sudha Shenoy is an economist and economic historian of Indian origin. She is one of the most notable Indian proponents of the Austrian School of economics. Shenoy's father was B. R. Shenoy, an economist who studied at the London School of Economics under Friedrich Hayek. Sudha Shenoy is a Honorary Associate in Economic History at the School of Policy at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She has also been a visiting faculty member at California State University, …
- Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías
Hugo Chavez for President! Of the United States!!
- Montgomery Bell
Montgomery Bell (January 3 1769, Chester County, Pennsylvania - April 1 1855, Dickson County, Tennessee) was a manufacturing entrepreneur who was crucial to the economic development of early Middle Tennessee. He was known as the "Iron Master of the Harpeth" and the "Iron Master of Middle Tennessee".
- Ansley J. Coale
Ansley Johnson Coale (1917-2002), was one of America's foremost demographers. A native of Baltimore, Maryland, he earned his B.A. in 1939, his M.A. in 1941, and (after a period of service in the Navy) his Ph.D. in 1947, all at Princeton University.
- John Morgridge
John P. Morgridge joined Cisco Systems in 1988 as President and CEO, and grew the company from $5 million to more than $1 billion in sales, and from 34 to more than 2,250 employees. In 1990 he took Cisco public, and in 1995 was appointed Chairman. During his tenure, Cisco has become the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, with more than $25 billion in revenues and some 50,000 employees in 77 countries.
- Frances Lankin
Frances Lankin is President and CEO, United Way of Greater Toronto, which works to strengthen neighbourhoods in Toronto by funding a network of 200 social and health service agencies. In January 2004, the charity celebrated its most successful fundraising campaign ever, raising $84.3 million for its agencies, as well as other United Ways and charities designated by donors.
- Hayato Ikeda
Hayato Ikeda born in Hiroshima Prefecture, was a Japanese politician and the 58th, 59th and 60th Prime Minister of Japan from July 19,1960 to December 8,1960, to December 9,1963, and to November 9,1964 respectively. As Prime Minister, he advocated the "income-doubling plan" and "politics of patience and reconciliation," respectively emphasizing economic development of Japan while minimizing societal conflict. His was noted for resolution of several major labor disputes, …
- P. Roy Vagelos
Dr. Vagelos served as Chief Executive Officer of Merck & Co., Inc. for nine years, from July 1985 to June 1994. He was first elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 and served as its Chairman from April 1986 to November 1994. He was previously Executive Vice President of the worldwide health products company and, before that, President of its Research Division, which he joined in 1975.
- John S. Dyson
John S. Dyson is a political and business leader in New York. He currently serves as the chairman of Millbank Capital Management and has been active in businsses for a numbers of years. He is an alumnus of Cornell University and holds a master's degree from Princeton University. He is the father of the popular tourism advertising campaign, "I Love New York." Dyson spent a decade in New York state government, including four years in the Cabinet of Gov. Hugh Carey.