Klaus Schwab
Engineer at Escher Wyss & Cie (Sulzer), economist, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in 1971, author of Stakeholder Capitalism, COVID-19: The Great Reset, knighted in 2006
Abby Joseph Cohen
Financial analyst at Goldman Sachs, economist, chief investment strategist for Global Markets Institute
Adam Smith
Political economist, Marxist socialist, pioneer in free trade for the British East India Company, philosopher, grandfather of modern economics, author of The Wealth of Nations in 1776
1723-1790 (67)
Alan Greenspan living
Economist, 13th chairman of the US Federal Reserve (the FED) from 1987-2006, financier, businessman, founder of Greenspan Associates
1926- (98)
Alfons Verplaetse
Economist, governor of the National Bank of Belgium from 1989-1999
1930-2020 (90)
Ángel Gurría living
Economist, diplomat, Institutional Revolutionary Party politician, Mexico Secretary of Foreign Affairs from 1994-1997, secretary-general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (EOCD) from 2006-2021
1950- (74)
oecd.org
Arnold J. Toynbee
Philosopher, international historian, economist, professor, director of studies at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA)
1889-1975 (86)
Aurelio Peccei
Founder of Italconsult (working with Fiat, Innocenti, Montecatini) aka Aurelio Peccai, president of Olivetti, climate change activist aka Aurelio Pechai, commissioned the Report on The Limits to Growth, co-founder and 1st president of the Club of Rome in 1972, author of The Chasm Ahead, The Human Quality, Before Its Too Late
1908-1984 (76)
Frédéric Bastiat
economist, author of The Law, military philosopher, pioneer in opportunity costs & plunder of society, writer for the French Liberal School
Bill Clinton living
42nd President of the United States from 1993-2001, politician, Rhodes scholar, dictator who signed bills for NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) and Agenda 21 (now Agenda 2030 sustainable development goals, or SDGs), motivational speaker, author of My Life, Hard Choices, Rhodes scholar
1946- (78)
Bono
Rock singer, musician, controversial philanthropist with the One Campaign
Børge Brende living
President, co-chairman and managing director of the World Economic Forum (WEF), Grand Cross of the Hellenic Order of the Phoenix, environmentalist, Young Conservatives politician, entrepreneur, former Minister of Foreign Affairs for Norway
1965- (59)
weforum.org
Cameron Hepburn
Economist at Oxford University
oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk
Christine Lagarde living
President of the European Central Bank (ECB) since 2019, politician for The Republicans, attorney, lawyer, former managing director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 2011-2019
1956- (68)
Clifford Gaddy living
Economist, co-author of The Siberian Curse
1946- (78)
americanacademy.de
Cyrus Vance
economist, pioneer in post industrial zero growth, writer of the Global 2000 Report
David Card
Economist, professor of economics at UC Berkeley, Nobel Prize
davidcard.berkeley.edu
David Gergen living
Political commentator, politics, publicist, public relations for the White House, founder of With Honor Action (With Honor Fund)
1942- (82)
david-gergen.com
David Ricardo
Economist, intrinsic value theory, fractional reserve banking artificially reduces interest rates, co-founder of The Currency School
Dominique Strauss-Kahn living
Economist, former Minister of the Economy of France, and former managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), French Socialist Party politician
1949- (75)
Donald Rumsfeld
Secretary of Defense under Gerald Ford and again under George W Bush
1932-2021 (89)
Emmanuel Farhi
Macroeconomist, professor of economics at Harvard University
1978-2020 (42)
news.harvard.edu
Ernie Stern
Economist, banker, lender at the World Bank Group
1933-2019 (86)
ft.com
Eugen Schwab
Business executive at Escher Wyss & Cie, father of Klaus Schwab
F.A. Hayek (Friedrich von Hayek)
Economist, philosopher, classical liberalism, author of The Road to Serfdom, The Constitution of Liberty
1899-1992 (93)
Fidel Castro
Communist dictator, revolutionary leader in Cuba
britannica.com
Muammar Gaddafi
Politician aka Momar Khadafi, revolutionary who ruled the country of Libya for 42 years from 1969-2011
1942-2011 (69)
biography.com
George P. Shultz
Republican Party politician, economist, Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) secretary, diplomat, businessman
1920-2021 (101)
Gerhard Fels
Economist, formerly at UN Committee for Development Planning, author of A Supply-Side Agenda for Germany
group30.org
Giancarlo Gandolfo
Economist, pioneer in dynamic economic theory, professor of International Economics at Sapienza University of Rome from 1974-2010
gandolfo.org
Gita Gopinath
Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund
group30.org
Guillermo de la Dehesa living
Secretary of State of Economy and Finance from 1986-1988, economist, lawyer, attorney, politician, advisor to Goldman Sachs since 1988
1941- (83)
group30.org
Guy Quaden
Economist, governor of the National Bank of Belgium 2003-2011, president of the King Baudouin Foundation since 2003
Hans Tietmeyer
Economist, president of Deutsche Bundesbank from 1993-1999, director at the European Union, author of The Social Market Economy and Monetary Stability
1931-2016 (85)
pass.va
Henry C. Carey
Lead economist for the American School, chief economic advisor to Abraham Lincoln
1793-1879 (86)
Henry A. Kissinger
US Secretary of State for Richard Nixon from 1973-1977, politician, lobbyist, founder of Kissinger Associates, diplomat or war criminal, author of World Order, On China, Diplomacy
1923-2023 (100)
henryakissinger.com
David Hume
Enlightenment philosopher, historian, monetary theorist, economist, librarian, essayist, philosophical empiricism, author of A Treatise on Human Nature
plato.stanford.edu
Jacques Delors
8th President of the European Commission from 1985-1995, economist, politician
James Pennington
Economist, multiple deposits, co-founder of The Currency School
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Economist, academic scholar, university professor, educator, researcher, former director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University
jeffsachs.org
John Deagel
Economist known for the Deagel Report on A Transformed World for Americans in 2025
John Law
Economist, inventor of paper money, pioneer in fractional reserve banking, founder of Mississippi Company, funded by the Banque Royale, pioneered the term "millionaire" for Law's scheme
1671-1729 (58)
John R. Commons
Economist
archives.gov
John Stuart Mill
Philosopher, political economist, civil servant, Theory of the Scientific Method, utilitarian ethics, helped finance the University of London
Joseph Schumpeter
Poltiical economist, Finance Minister of German-Austria in 1919
Karl Otto Pöhl
Economist, director of the European Central Bank (ECB), president and chairman of the German central bank (Bundesbank) council from 1980-1991, sports reporter
1929-2014 (85)
bundesbank.de
Ken Galbraith
Economist, liberal diplomat, ambassador to India, writer at Forbes, author of The Affluent Society, The Great Crash 1929, lecturer, Warburg professor of economics at Harvard, proponent of liberalism and realism, coined the phrase "progress is an innocent fraud", co-founder the European Management Symposium (now World Economic Forum or "WEF")
1908-2006 (98)
Ken Rogoff
Economist aka Kenneth Rogoff, professor of public policy and economics at Harvard University, chess grandmaster, Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund
scholar.harvard.edu
John Maynard (J.M.) Keynes
economist aka JM Keynes, libertarian, pioneer in macroeconomics, lobbyist, slick suits, wino, author of The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
econlib.org
King Charles III (Prince Charles) living
King of the United Kingdom since 2022, Prince of Wales aka Prince Charles, eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II, British royalty
1948- (76)
Kristalina Georgieva living
Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), CEO of the World Bank, economist, financier, VP of the European Commission (EC) from 2014-2016
1953- (71)
Larry Summers
Economist, banker, financier, former President of Harvard
larrysummers.com
Lauchlin Currie
Economist, economic advisor to president Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)
Vladimir Lenin
Marxist communist revolutionary aka Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, creating the Soviet Union, co-founder of Communist International in 1919
Leonard Darwin
Economist, politician, president of the First International Congress of Eugenics, pioneer in organic evolution, son of Charles Darwin, author of What is Eugenics? in 1932
1850-1943 (93)
Leszek Balcerowicz
Economist
group30.org
Lynn Forester de Rothschild living
Financier, founder of Inclusive Capital Partners (ICP), co-founder of E.L. Rothschild, wife of Evelyn de Rothschild, advocate for universal basic income (UBI) aka Inclusive Capitalism, founder and CEO of the Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism
1954- (70)
elrothschild.com
Mac Wallace
Economist, press secretary for US senator LBJ, sharpshooter, links to JFK assassination and killed John Kinser in broad daylight
Thomas Malthus
Ecnomist, cleric, scholar, Malthusian catastrophe, Malthusian theory is that population increases beyond subsistence that if left unchecked by disease, famine, war, moral restraint that widespread poverty and degradation will result. Beginnings of Charles Darwin's survival of the fittest, Theory of Evolution
Marc Rich
Commodities trader at Glencore, hedge fund manager, billionaire financier, businessman, stock trader
1934-2013 (79)
Marek Belka
Prime Minister of Poland, economist, banker, former head of Narodowy Bank Polski (NBP) the Polish central bank
Mark Rutte living
Prime Minister of the Netherlands since 2010, People's Party for Freedom and Democracy politician since 2006, director of Human Resources at IGLOMora Group (Unilever)
1967- (57)
Martin A. Armstrong living
Stock trader, currency economist, trends forecaster aka Marty Armstrong, inventor, pioneer in artificial intelligence (AI), coins collector, spent 11 years in prison from 2000-2011
1949- (75)
Martin Feldstein
Economist, Professor of Economics at Harvard, President of National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) from 1978-2008
1939-2019 (80)
Mervyn King living
Economist, chairman of the Monetary Policy Committee, governor of the Bank of England from 2003-2013, member of the UK House of Lords since 2013, professor of economics at the London School of Economics, chairman of the Philharmonia
1948- (76)
group30.org
Michael Hudson
Economist, writer, researcher, real estate investor
michael-hudson.com
Murray Rothbard
Economist, political theorist, libertarian, author of For a New Liberty
1926-1995 (69)
Nicholas Eberstadt living
Political economist, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), author of Poverty in China, The North Korean Economy, The End of North Korea, A Nation of Takers, The Tyranny of Numbers, The Poverty of Communism, Men Without Work
1955- (69)
Nils Bernstein
Economist, central banker, governor of the National Bank of Denmark
bis.org
Vilfredo Pareto
Neoclassical economist, polymath, educator at the Lausanne School, pioneer in elitism of elites, cause and effect, wealth and power distribution and the 80/20 rule, Pareto charts, Pareto principles
1848-1923 (75)
Paul Krugman
Economist, international trade theory, wealth inequity, income inequality, economics professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
group30.org
Dr. Pippa Malmgren
Economist, writer of Geopolitics for Investors, author of Signals, co-author of The Leadership Lab, The Infinite Leader, technology entrepreneur, founder and CEO of IndraNet.ai, special advisor at The Monaco Foundry, Avonhurst, British Standards Institute, economic advisor to George W Bush, her father was an advisor to Richard Nixon
pippamalmgren.co.uk
Sergey Glazyev living
Economist in the Eurasian Economic Commission, Rodina party politician, National Financial Council of the Bank of Russia, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 2008
1961- (63)
roscongress.org
Stanley Fischer
Economist, vice chairman of the Federal Reserve until 2018
group30.org
Stephen S. Roach
Economist, author of Unbalanced, former chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia
Stephen Zarlenga
Economist, senior fellow at the American Monetary Institute, author of The Lost Science of Money
Walt Whitman Rostow
Economist, political strategist, political theorist, communist
Wesley C. Mitchell
Economist, founder of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
1874-1948 (74)
britannica.com
William Forster Lloyd
Economist, writer, lecturer on population control in 1833
1794-1852 (58)
William of Ockham
Philosopher of parsimony ("the simplest explanation is usually the best one"), economist, principle law of parsimony aka Ockham's razor (sometimes Occam's razor) also known as the law of economy
William Stanley Jevons
Economist, neoclassical economics, philosopher, marginal revolution
1835-1882 (47)
plato.stanford.edu
Winston Lord living
Heir to the Pillsbury family dynasty, diplomat, former US ambassador to China, his uncle was Philip Pillsbury
1937- (87)
Yutaka Yamaguchi
economist, former Deputy Governor for the Bank of Japan
group30.org
Yuval Noah Harari
Futurist, pioneer in transhumanism, historian, author of Sapiens, Homo Deus, advisor to Klaus Schwab
Zaccaria Contarini
Economist, earliest founding families of Venice, oldest families of Italian Nobility