- Ashok Banker
Ashok Kumar Banker (born February 7, 1964) is a novelist born and living in Mumbai, India. - Tisha Terrasini Banker
Tisha Terrasini Banker is an American actress. She was born September 30, 1973 in St. Louis, Missouri. She attended St. Joseph's Academy in Frontenac, Missouri. She earned her BA at Loyola University in New Orleans and her MFA from DePaul University in Chicago. She has appeared in dozens of plays in various cities. Some of her favorite roles are Dolly in "Because They Have No Words", Dr. Foxley in "The Book of Liz", Hermia in "Midsummer Night's Dream", … - Mark Banker
- Ben Bernanke
Ben Bernanke , the Chairman of the Federal Reserve has studied both the '30's and the Japanese deflationary periods in depth. Fortunately he published papers and books on the subject along with other like minded economists, including GB Eggertsson. - J. P. Morgan
John Pierpont Morgan (April 17, 1837 - March 31, 1913) was an American financier, banker, philanthropist, and art collector who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time. In 1892 Morgan arranged the merger of Edison General Electric and Thompson-Houston Electric Company to form General Electric. - 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, … - Jamie Dimon
James "Jamie" Dimon (born March 13, 1956) became CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co. on January 1, 2006. He succeeded William B. Harrison, Jr., who became the company's chairman. Dimon succeeded Harrison as Chairman of JPMorgan on January 1, 2007, following Harrison's retirement. - David Rockefeller
David Rockefeller, Sr. is a prominent American banker, philanthropist, world statesman, and the current patriarch of the Rockefeller family. He is the youngest and only surviving child and grandchild, respectively, of the prominent philanthropist John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and the billionaire oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil. His five deceased siblings are: Abby, John D. III, Nelson, Laurance and Winthrop. - Josef Ackermann
Dr. Josef Ackermann (born February 7, 1948) is a Swiss banker. He has been Board Member of Deutsche Bank since 1996 and its CEO and Chairman of the Executive Committee since 2002. Ackermann is a graduate of the University of St. Gallen (HSG). He was born in Mels, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Josef Ackermann modernized Deutsche Bank by focusing on shareholders. - 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, … - Robert Morris
Robert Morris, Jr. was an American merchant and a signer to the United States Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution. Morris was known as the "Financier of the Revolution", because of his role in securing financial assistance for the American side in the Revolutionary War. Ironically, he was sent to debtor's prison in later life. - Paul Warburg
Paul Moritz Warburg (August 10, 1868 - January 24, 1932) was a German-American banker and early advocate of the U.S Federal Reserve system. Warburg was born into a successful Jewish banking family in Hamburg, Germany. He and his brothers Max Warburg and Felix Warburg were partners in the family firm of M. M. Warburg & Co., but while Max remained in Germany as head of that business, Felix and Paul moved to New York City in 1901, … - Michael Milken
Michael Robert Milken, born July 4, 1946, in Encino, California, is an American financier best known as the "Junk Bond King" of 1980s era Wall Street. He was highly influential in developing the market for junk bonds (a.k.a. "high-yield debt") during the 1970s and 1980s, which in turn fueled the 1980s boom in corporate raids and hostile corporate takeovers. He has been called both a financial innovator and the epitome of 1980s Wall Street greed. - Viktor Yushchenko
Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko (Ukrainian:) (born February 23 1954) has been the President of Ukraine since November 2004. As an informal leader of the Ukrainian opposition coalition, he was one of three main candidates in the October-November 2004 Ukrainian presidential election. Yushchenko won the election through a recount of the runoff between him and Viktor Yanukovych, the government supported candidate. - Jacob Schiff
Jacob Henry Schiff, born Jacob Hirsch Schiff (January 10, 1847 - September 25, 1920) was a German-born New York City banker and philanthropist, who financed, among many other things, the Japanese military efforts against Tsarist Russia in the Russo-Japanese War. From his base on Wall Street, he was the foremost Jewish leader in what became known as the "Schiff era," grappling with all major issues and problems of the day, … - John Law
John Law ("bap." 21 April 1671 - 21 March 1729) was a Scottish economist who believed that money was only a means of exchange that did not constitute wealth in itself, and that national wealth depended on trade. He is said to be the father of finance, responsible for the adoption or use of paper money or bills in the world today. Law was a gambler and a brilliant mental calculator, and was known to win card games by mentally calculating the odds. - Roberto Calvi
Roberto Calvi was an Italian banker dubbed by the press as "God's Banker", due to his close association with the Vatican. A native of Milan, Calvi was the chairman of Banco Ambrosiano which collapsed in one of modern Italy's biggest political scandals, and his death in London in June 1982 has been the source of enduring controversy. Calvi's death was ruled as murder after two coroner's inquests and an independent investigation, … - Klaus-Peter Müller
Klaus-Peter Müller is a German banker. He is the Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors of Commerzbank AG, Germany's second-largest bank. Further, he is the President of the Association of German Banks (Bundesverband deutscher Banken). - Nick Leeson
Nicholas Leeson (English, born February 25, 1967) is a former derivatives trader whose unsupervised speculative trading caused the collapse of Barings Bank, the United Kingdom's oldest investment bank. Leeson was born in Watford, north-west of London. He attended Parmiter's School. After leaving school in the early 1980s, Nick landed a job as a clerk with royal bank Coutts, followed by a string of jobs with other banks, … - Kay Bailey Hutchison
Kathyrn Ann Bailey Hutchison, usually known as Kay Bailey Hutchison (born July 22 1943), is the senior United States Senator from Texas. She is a member of the Republican Party. In 2001 she was named one of the 30 most powerful women in America by "Ladies Home Journal". - Khalid bin Mahfouz
Khalid bin Mahfouz is a wealthy Saudi Arabian businessman accused of supporting al-Qaeda. The veracity of such accusations is controversial and supported mainly by allegations, as Mahfouz himself claims to "condemn terrorism in all of its forms and manifestations." - Felix Rohatyn
Felix G. Rohatyn (born May 29, 1928 in Vienna, Austria) is an American businessman and investment banker and has also served in public service. He is divorced from his first wife with whom he had three children, and has since become married to Elizabeth Fly Rohatyn. - Bruce Wasserstein
Bruce Wasserstein (born December 25, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American investment banker and businessman. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan, Harvard Business School, and Harvard Law School, and is currently the Chairman and CEO of Lazard LLC. Born in Brooklyn, New York, to Morris Wasserstein, a wealthy textile executive, and his wife, Lola Schleifer, Wasserstein is one of five children. - John Gray
John Gray, (c. 1755 - 13 September 1829), a Canadian banker, JP and militia officer, was the founder and first president of the Bank of Montreal. - Mario Draghi
Mario Draghi (born September 3, 1947) is an Italian banker and economist, nominated to be the new governor of the Bank of Italy on December 29, 2005. He has taken office on January 16, 2006. - Stephen Green
Stephen Green (born 7 November 1948) is Group Chairman of HSBC Holdings plc. Green was educated at Oxford University and received a master's degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On 28th November 2005 HSBC announced that he would become Group Chairman when Sir John Bond retired on 26th May 2006. Green began his career with the British Government's Ministry of Overseas Development. In 1977 he joined McKinsey & Co Inc., management consultants, … - John Thompson
John Thompson (1802 - 1891) was a U.S. banker, who founded First National Bank in 1863 and Chase National Bank in 1877. Chase National became the Chase Manhattan Bank. - John Varley
John Silvester Varley (born c.1956) is a British banker, currently Group Chief Executive of Barclays Bank. Varley attended the Catholic Downside School and has a Master's degree in history and attended London's College of Law. In 1981 he married Carolyn Thorn Pease, daughter of Sir Richard Thorn Pease, and in so doing married into the Quaker Pease family, whose bank became part of Barclays in 1902. - Daniel Bouton
Daniel Bouton is the Chairman and CEO of Société Générale. He graduated from Ecole Nationale d'Administration or ENA (English: National School of Administration) and Institut d'études politiques de Paris or IEP (English: National Institute of Political Studies of Paris). He began his career with the French Ministry of Finance in 1973. He first worked in the Inspection of Finance (1973 - 1978) then in the Budget Department (1978 - 1986). - Shaukat Aziz
Shaukat Aziz , born March 6, 1949 in Karachi, Pakistan is the current Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Pakistan.... ... Shaukat Aziz , born March 6, 1949 in Karachi, Pakistan is the current Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Pakistan.... - Charles Keating
Charles Humphrey Keating Jr. (born December 4, 1923 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American felon convicted of fraud in the savings and loan scandal of 1989. Prior to his arrest, he was a lawyer, a banker, and he was noted as a vehement anti-pornography campaigner. A conservative Roman Catholic, Keating was active in the Republican Party. His brother, William J. Keating, was a Republican Congressman from Ohio. - Mayer Amschel Rothschild
Mayer Amschel Rothschild (February 23, 1744 - September 19, 1812) was the founder of the Rothschild family banking empire that would become one of the most successful business families in history. In 2005, he was ranked 7th on the Forbes magazine list of the "The Twenty Most Influential Businessmen Of All Time". The business magazine referred to him as a "founding father of international finance". He was born Mayer Amschel Bauer on February 23, … - Antonio Fazio
Antonio Fazio (born October 11, 1936 in Alvito, province of Frosinone) is an Italian banker, who was the Governor of Banca d'Italia from 1993 until his resignation amidst controversy at the end of 2005. He is reported to be very religious, and close to the Vatican. He has five children. The youngest of his daughters has been consecrated to the order of Legionaries of Christ, a lay religious organization (some newspapers reported incorrectly she was becoming a nun). - John Bond
Sir John Reginald Hartnell Bond retired as chairman of HSBC Holdings plc on 26 May 2006, after spending 45 years with the bank. He took up the position of Chairman of Vodafone in July 2006. He has been appointed as a member of the Hong Kong Chief Executive's Council of International Advisers. - Vladimir Romanov
Vladimir Romanov is a controversial ethnic-Russian businessman and banker, who is based in Lithuania and holds Lithuanian citizenship. He is the controlling shareholder of Heart of Midlothian F.C. ("Hearts") in Edinburgh, Scotland, FBK Kaunas in Lithuania and FC MTZ-RIPO in Belarus. At present he is deeply unpopular at Hearts due to fans perception of him interfering in team selection and creating unrest with amongst of their star players. - Andrew W. Mellon
Andrew William Mellon (March 24, 1855 - August 27, 1937) was an American banker, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector and Secretary of the Treasury from March 4, 1921 until February 12, 1932. He is the only Secretary of the Treasury to have served under three presidents (Harding, Coolidge and Hoover). - William Paterson
Sir William Paterson (born April, 1658 in Tinwald, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland - died in Westminster, London, on January 22, 1719) was a Scottish trader and banker. - Alessandro Profumo
Alessandro Profumo is an Italian banker, the CEO of the Gruppo Unicredito, Italy's major banking group. Profumo was born in Genoa. He graduated in business management at the Università Bocconi, he then started working at the Banco Lariano, where he remained from 1977 to 1987. He left the banking activity to enter the sector of business consulting. He was in McKinsey from 1987 to 1989 and in "Bain, Cuneo e associati" from 1989 to 1991. - Max Warburg
Max M. Warburg (5 June 1867 - 26 December 1946) was a Jewish-German-American banker and was, from 1910 until 1938, director of M. M. Warburg & Co. in Hamburg, Germany. Prior to his directing of the Warburg banking company, he developed apprenticeships in Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Paris, and London. As head of that important firm, he advised Kaiser Wilhelm II prior to World War I. In the 1930s, despite the rise of the Nazi Party, … - Bimal Jalan
Bimal Jalan (born 1941) was the Governor of Reserve Bank of India for two terms. The Government of India reappointed Jalan as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, first for a period of two years commencing November 22, 2000 to November 21, 2002 and again for a further period of two years commencing from November 22, 2002 and ending November 21, 2004. He was succeeded by Y. Venugopal Reddy on September 6, 2003.
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