- Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg KBE (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director and producer. Spielberg is a three-time Academy Award winner and is the highest grossing filmmaker of all time, with an estimated net worth of $3 billion. As of 2006, "Premiere" listed him as the most powerful and influential figure in the motion picture industry. "TIME" named him in the '100 Greatest People of the Century'.
- George Soros
George Soros (born August 12, 1930, in Budapest, Hungary, as György Schwartz) is an American financial speculator, stock investor, philanthropist, and political activist. He peacefully promotes democracy in Eastern Europe. Currently, he is the chairman of Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Institute and is also a former member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations. His support for the Solidarity labor movement in Poland, …
- Bill Miller
Bill Miller is Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Legg Mason Capital Management, a subsidiary of Legg Mason Inc. managing more than $60 billion of pooled assets and separate accounts. He is a portfolio manager of the Legg Mason Value Trust mutual fund (LMVTX), …
- Megan McArdle
While working at Ground Zero, she started Live from the WTC, a blog focused on economics, business, and cooking. She may or may not have been the first major economics blogger, depending on whether we are allowed to throw outlying variables such as Brad Delong out of the set. From there it was but a few steps down the slippery slope to freelance journalism.
- Mark Shuttleworth
Mark Richard Shuttleworth (born 18 September 1973) is a South African entrepreneur who was the second self-funded space tourist and first African national in space. He is now best known for his leadership of the Ubuntu Linux distribution. He currently lives in London and holds dual citizenship of South Africa and the United Kingdom
- Roman Abramovich
Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich (born 24 October 1966 in Saratov, Russia) is a Russian oil billionaire and the main owner of private investment company Millhouse Capital, referred to as one of the Russian oligarchs. According to the 2006 "Forbes" magazine, as of 13 February 2006, he had a net worth of $18.2 billion, and according to Russian "Finance" magazine, as of January 2007, his fortune was $21.0 billion.
- Beppe Grillo
Giuseppe Grillo, better known as Beppe Grillo (born July 21, 1948), is an Italian comedian and actor, who also works in theatres and television.
- Stephen Ross
Stephen A. Ross is the Franco Modigliani Professor of Finance and Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is known for initiating several important theories and models in Financial economics. He is a widely published author in finance and economics, and is coauthor of one of the best-selling Corporate Finance texts.
- Brady Quinn
Brayden Tyler "Brady" Quinn (born October 27, 1984, Columbus, Ohio) is an American football quarterback who currently plays for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League. Quinn was drafted by the Browns in the first round of the 2007 NFL Draft with the number 22 pick overall. He attended the University of Notre Dame and set many school records for the Fighting Irish. Brady graduated from Notre Dame with dual degrees in political science and finance.
- Mike Murphy
Mike Murphy, BBA, LLB, LLM (born January 25, 1958) is a New Brunswick lawyer and politician. Murphy graduated from Moncton High School in 1976, from the University of New Brunswick with a Bachelor of Business Administration in 1980 and a Bachelor of Laws in 1983. He received his Master of Laws from Osgoode Law School in 2002. A noted insurance lawyer, Murphy was president of the New Brunswick Liberal Association from 1988 - 1993.
- Alexei Kudrin
Alexei Leonidovich Kudrin is a Russian statesman, and the Russian Minister of Finance. He has held the post since 18 May, 2000. He attended Leningrad State University and graduated from that institution in 1983. He worked in the Saint Petersburg Mayor's Office from 1990 to 1996 under Anatoly Sobchak, where he met the future President of Russia, Vladimir Putin. Kudrin is one of three "Liberal Reformers" in President Vladimir Putin's Cabinet.
- Alex Brummer
Alex Brummer (born in Hove, England on 25 May, 1949) is a British journalist, editor, and author. He has been the City Editor of the "Daily Mail" (London) since May 2000, where he writes a daily column on economics and finance. He also writes the weekly Media Analysis column for the Jewish Chronicle (London). Previous media positions at "The Guardian" (London) were Assistant Editor (1998-1999), Financial Editor (1990-1999), Foreign Editor (1989), …
- Mason Hawkins
Otis "Mason" Hawkins is a noted investor, who manages Southeastern Asset Management. Prior to founding Southeastern, Hawkins was Director of Research at First Tennessee Investment Management (1974-1975) and Director of Research at Atlantic National Bank (1972-1973). Hawkins received a B.A. in Finance from the University of Florida in 1970 and an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Georgia in 1971. Hawkins does not shy away from buying out-of-favor stocks.
- Ken Lewis
Kenneth D. Lewis (Born 9 April 1947 in Meridian, Mississippi) is the current Chairman, CEO, and President of Bank of America, one of the largest banks in the United States, positions he has held since the retirement of Hugh McColl in 2001. He joined the organization (at that time NCNB) as a credit analyst in 1969, and served as the head of both international and domestic operations during his tenure at NationsBank. He is a graduate of Georgia State University, …
- Nassim Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b. 1960) (alternative spellings of first name: Nessim or Nissim) is an essayist, philosopher of randomness, researcher, and practitioner of financial mathematics. As a pioneer of complex financial derivatives, he had as a "day job" a lengthy senior trading career in New York City's Wall Street firms, …
- Susan Decker
Susan L. Decker is the President of Yahoo! Inc.. Previously she was director of Costco Corporation. She graduated from Tufts University with Bachelor of Science in computer science and economics. She then graduated with an MBA from Harvard Business School. Susan Decker is on the board of directors of Berkshire Hathaway, Intel and Costco.
- Dan Boyle
Dan Boyle is an Irish Green Party politician. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for Cork South Central from 2002–2007 and was the Green Party spokesperson on Finance, Social & Family Affairs, Finance and Community, Rural Development & the Islands during the 29th Dáil. He was also the Party Chief Whip. Dan Boyle was born in Chicago in the United States to emigrant Irish parents.
- Burton Malkiel
Burton Gordon Malkiel (born August 28, 1932) is an American economist and writer, most famous for his classic finance book "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" (now in its 9th edition, 2007). He is a leading proponent of the Efficient market hypothesis, which contends that prices of publicly traded assets reflect all publicly available information. He is a professor of economics at Princeton University, and is a two-time chairman of the economics department there.
- Thomas Smith
Thomas (Tom) Smith is an Australian finance academic. Smith has been a professor at the Australian National University since 2003. Prior appointments were at the Australian Graduate School of Management (1995-2002) and Duke University (1988-1995). He completed his PhD studies at Stanford, after undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Queensland. Smith's research has been published in the leading financial economic journals, …
- Mark Murray
Mark Murray is president of Meijer and was the third president of Grand Valley State University, serving from 2001 to 2006. He received his master's degree in Labor and Industrial Relations and his bachelor's degree in Economics from Michigan State University. Prior to his tenure at Grand Valley, he served in Michigan state government. His positions were: treasurer, budget director, director of the Department of Management and Budget, …
- Anatole Kaletsky
Anatole Kaletsky Anatole Kaletsky is Principal Economic Commentator and Associate Editor of The Times of London, where he writes a twice-weekly column on economics, politics and financial markets. Since 1997 he has also worked as an economic consultant, providing forecasts and policy analysis for financial institutions, multinational companies and international organisations through his company, Kaletsky Economic Consulting Ltd. In 1998 he was elected by Britainâ
- Bill Campbell
William J. Campbell is a Republican politician from California. A former California State Assembly Republican Leader, he has served on the Orange County Board of Supervisors since 2003 (and was its Chairman from January 4 2005–January 9 2007). Born in Los Angeles, Campbell grew up in Pico Rivera. Campbell earned a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Loyola Marymount University and a Master of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School.
- 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.
- Eugene Fama
Eugene Fama (born February 14 1939) is an American economist, known for his work on portfolio theory and asset pricing, both theoretical and empirical. He earned his undergraduate degree in French from Tufts University in 1960 and his MBA and Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago in economics and finance. He has spent all of his teaching career at the University of Chicago.
- Andrew Samwick
Andrew Alan Samwick served as Chief Economist on the Staff of the United States President’s Council of Economic Advisors from July 2003 to July 2004. He received an A.B. summa cum laude and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa in Economics at Harvard College in 1989. He received his Ph.D. in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993; at MIT he was the recipient of several grants and fellowships including: the National Institute on Aging, …
- Mary Meeker
Mary G. Meeker (born September ??, 1959 in rural Portland, Indiana, USA) is an influential Wall Street securities analyst and investment banker primarily associated with dot coms and the 1990s internet bubble. Meeker became known as "Queen of the Net" after being dubbed so by "Barron's Magazine" in 1998. Meeker holds a B.A. in psychology from DePauw University (1981) and a M.B.A. in finance from Cornell University (1986).
- Robert C. Merton
Robert C. Merton (born July 31, 1944), is a leading scholar in the field of finance and was one of three men who, in the early 1970s, developed the mathematics of financial options. Merton was the first to publish a paper expanding our mathematical understanding of the options pricing model and coined the term "Black-Scholes" options pricing model, by enhancing work that was published by Fischer Black and Myron S. Scholes.
- Craig Robinson
Craig Robinson is the head men's basketball coach at Brown University. He was a two-time Ivy League Player of the Year at Princeton University, from which he graduated in 1983 with an AB in Sociology. He also earned an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business in 1992. After graduating from Princeton, Robinson was drafted by the NBA to play for the Philadelphia 76ers. After playing in Europe, he returned to the U.S. and in 1988, …
- Aswath Damodaran
Aswath Damodaran , NYU Stern Professor of Finance, was named "Professor of the Year" by the 2008 graduating MBA class - his eighth time during his career at NYU Stern. He was recognized at the Graduate Convocation Ceremony on May 15, 2008.
- Chris Green
Chris Green is a British journalist based in London. His work focuses on the areas of business, finance, technology and computer gaming, but has also encompassed crime and sociology. He has appeared frequently as a guest commentator on UK television and radio. From June 1998 to May 2006 Green was employed as Technology Editor of "Computing", a weekly business-to-business newspaper published in the UK by VNU.
- Joan Burton
Joan Burton is an Irish Labour Party politician. She is a Teachta Dála (TD) for Dublin West and is currently the Labour Party Spokesperson for Finance. Burton is a native of the Stoneybatter area of Dublin city. She was educated at St Joseph Sisters of Charity Secondary School, Stanhope Street and University College Dublin where she graduated with a degree in Commerce. Former Minister for Finance Charlie McCreevy was in the same economics as Burton in UCD.
- Roger Jones
Roger D. Jones, PhD is an American physicist and entrepreneur. Roger D. Jones is currently Chairman and Chief Scientific Officer of Qforma, Inc. located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Trained in physics at Dartmouth College, Jones worked as a staff physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1979 to 1995. His primary research interests were in laser fusion and machine learning.
- Jack D. Schwager
Jack D. Schwager is the author of the books "Market Wizards", "New Market Wizards", "Stock Market Wizards", and "Getting Started in Technical Analysis". In the "Wizard" book series, the author interviews other successful traders that he meets while working at Commodities Corporation
- Kenneth French
Kenneth R. French (born March 10, 1954) is the Carl E. and Catherine M. Heidt Professor of Finance at the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College. He has previously been a faculty member at MIT, the Yale School of Management, and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Along with contributing articles to major journals such as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the American Economic Review, …
- Darrell Duffie
J. Darrell Duffie is a Canadian economist. He is the James I. Miller Professor of Finance at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and has been on the finance faculty at Stanford since receiving his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1984. He is considered by many to be one of the most influential financial economists of his era. He is the author of "Futures Markets, Dynamic Asset Pricing Theory and Credit Risk," with Kenneth Singleton.
- Jim Rodgers
Jim Rodgers is a co-founder of the Quantum Fund with George Soros.
- 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.
- Peter Hutchinson
Peter Hutchinson (born December 17, 1949) is an American politician and businessman from the U.S. state of Minnesota. He ran as an Independent candidate for Governor of Minnesota in 2006. He received the endorsement of the Independence Party of Minnesota. Hutchinson was born in Faribault, Minnesota, but moved to Rochester, New York with his family at a young age. He attended Dartmouth College, where he received a bachelor's degree in government and urban studies, …
- Mark Rubinstein
Mark Rubinstein is Professor of Applied Investment Analysis at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a leading finance academic, focusing on derivatives, particularly options, and is probably best known for his work on the binomial options pricing model (also known as the Cox-Ross-Rubinstein model). In 1995, he was named International Association of Financial Engineers Man of the Year.
- Ronald MacDonald
Professor Ronald MacDonald is an economist at the University of Glasgow in Scotland (Adam Smith Professor of Political Economy) with a research specialism in exchange rate analysis using advanced econometric techniques. Until 2004 he held the same post at the University of Strathclyde (professor of international finance - formerly professor of international macroeconomics).