Famous Economists

• Bernanke, Ben

  Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, 2006-

• Fayyad, Salam

  The Palestinian finance minister who became emergency prime minister

• Greenspan, Alan

  Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board of Governors, 1987-2006

• Keynes, John Maynard

  The British economist who created macroeconomics

• Piketty, Thomas

  The author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century

• Shultz, George

  United States Secretary of State, 1982-89

• Smith, Adam

  The author of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

• Strauss-Kahn, Dominique

  The IMF director accused of sexual assault in 2011

• Summers, Lawrence H.

  Director of the U.S. National Economic Council, 2009-present

• Yellen, Janet

  President Biden's Secretary of the Treasury

• Yunus, Muhammad

  The Nobel Prize-winning "banker to the poor"

See: Index by Occupation