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• Kofi Annan
  Kofi Annan
  
  Kofi Atta Annan, Order of St Michael and St George is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh United Nations Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1 January 1997 to 1 January 2007....
  
• Óscar Arias
  Óscar Arias
  
  ?scar Rafael de Jes?s Arias S?nchez is the current List of Presidents of Costa Rica of Costa Rica, and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his efforts to end civil wars then raging in several Central American countries....
  
• Dick Armey
  Dick Armey
  
  Richard Keith "Dick" Armey is a former United States House of Representatives from Texas's and Party Leaders of the United States House of Representatives ....
  
• Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

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• Leszek Balcerowicz
  Leszek Balcerowicz
  
  Leszek Balcerowicz is a Poland economist and the former chairman of the National Bank of Poland. He is famous for implementing the Polish economic transformation program, commonly known as shock therapy in the 1990s....
  
• Steve Ballmer
  Steve Ballmer
  
  Steven Anthony Ballmer is an United States businessman and has been the chief executive officer of Microsoft since January 2000. Ballmer is the second person after Roberto Goizueta to become a billionaire in U.S....
  
• Ravi Batra
  Ravi Batra
  
  Raveendra N. Batra is a United States economics and professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He is best known for his best selling books The Great Depression of 1990 and Surviving the Great Depression of 1990....
  
• Ben Bernanke
  Ben Bernanke
  
  Ben Shalom Bernanke is the Chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United States Federal Reserve. Bernanke succeeded Alan Greenspan on February 1, 2006....
  
• Don Brash
  Don Brash
  
  Donald Thomas Brash , a former New Zealand politician, was Leader of the Opposition and parliamentary leader of the New Zealand National Party from 28 October 2003 to 27 November 2006....
  
• Terence Burns, Baron Burns
  Terence Burns, Baron Burns
  
  Terence Burns, Baron Burns, Order of the Bath is a United Kingdom economist. He is currently Chairman of Abbey , Chairman of Marks & Spencer, Non-Executive Chairman of Welsh Water, a Non-Executive Director of Banco Santander, S.A., and a Non-Executive Director of Pearson PLC....
  

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• James Callaghan
  James Callaghan
  
  Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, Order of the Garter, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council , was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980....
  
• Michel Camdessus
  Michel Camdessus
  
  Michel Camdessus was Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund from 16 January 1987 to 14 February 2000.Among the most important events of his tenure was the East Asian financial crisis....
  
• Aníbal Cavaco Silva
  Aníbal Cavaco Silva
  
  An?bal Ant?nio Cavaco Silva, Order of Christ , is the List of Presidents of Portugal, having won the Portuguese presidential election, 2006 on 22 January 2006....
  
• Tansu Çiller
  Tansu Çiller
  
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• Pat Cox
  Pat Cox
  
  Pat Cox is a former Republic of Ireland politician and television current affairs presenter. He was President of the European Parliament from 2002 to 2004 and served as a member of the parliament from 1989?2004....
  
• Michael Cullen
  Michael Cullen
  
  Michael John Cullen is a New Zealand politician. He served as Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand, also Minister of Finance , Minister of Tertiary Education, and Attorney-General ....
  

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• Jacques Delors
  Jacques Delors
  
  Jacques Lucien Jean Delors is a French economist and politician, the only person to have served two terms as President of the European Commission ....
  
• Lou Dobbs
  Lou Dobbs
  
  Louis Dobbs , is a CNN news anchor and managing Editing for Lou Dobbs Tonight. He is a conservative editorial columnist and broadcast syndication radio show host....
  
• Wim Duisenberg
  Wim Duisenberg
  
  Willem Frederik Duisenberg, commonly known as Wim Duisenberg, was a Netherlands banker and politician. The first president of the European Central Bank , he was instrumental in the introduction of the euro in twelve European countries in 2002....
  
• Ashim Dasgupta

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• Stanley Fischer
  Stanley Fischer
  
  Stanley "Stan" Fischer is an economist and the current Governor of the Bank of Israel.Born in Northern Rhodesia on 15 October, 1943, he obtained his Bachelor of Science and Master's degree at the London School of Economics from 1962-1966 and his Doctor of Philosophy at MIT in 1969, all in economics....
  
• David D. Friedman
  David D. Friedman
  
  David Director Friedman is a writer who became a leading figure in the anarcho-capitalism community with the publication of his book The Machinery of Freedom ....
  

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• Phil Gramm
  Phil Gramm
  
  William Philip Gramm is a US politician, who has served as a Democratic Party United States House of Representatives , a Republican Party Congressman and a Republican United States Senate from Texas ....
  
• Alan Greenspan
  Alan Greenspan
  
  Alan Greenspan is an United States economist and was the Chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United States from 1987 to 2006. He currently works as a private advisor and providing consulting for firms through his company, Greenspan Associates LLC....
  

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• Dag Hammarskjöld
  Dag Hammarskjöld
  
  Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskj?ld was a Swedish diplomat, Christian mystic, and the second United Nations Secretary-General of the United Nations....
  
• Stephen Harper
  Stephen Harper
  
  Stephen Joseph Harper, Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Member of the Canadian House of Commons is the List of Prime Ministers of Canada and current Prime Minister of Canada, and leader of the Conservative Party of Canada....
  
• Rodney Hide
  Rodney Hide
  
  Rodney Hide is a New Zealand politician who became leader of the political party ACT New Zealand in 2004. Since 2005, he has represented the electorate of Epsom as its Member of Parliament....
  

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• Sir Keith Joseph
  Keith Joseph
  
  Keith Sinjohn Joseph, Baron Joseph, Order of the Companions of Honour, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council was a United Kingdom barrister, politician, and Conservative Party cabinet of the United Kingdom under three different Ministries....
  

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• Jack Kemp
  Jack Kemp
  
  Jack French Kemp, is an American politician and former professional American football player. In the U.S. presidential election, 1996, he was Republican Party presidential nominee Bob Dole running mate for Vice President of the United States....
  
• Mwai Kibaki
  Mwai Kibaki
  
  Mwai Kibaki is the Heads of State of Kenya of Kenya. Kibaki was previously Vice-President of Kenya , and has held several other cabinet positions, including Minister for Finance , Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Health ....
  
• Václav Klaus
  Václav Klaus
  
  V?clav Klaus is the second President of the Czech Republic and a former Prime Minister of the Czech Republic . An economist by trade, he is co-founder of the Civic Democratic Party, the major Czech right-wing party....
  
• Horst Köhler
  Horst Köhler
  
  Horst K?hler is a Germany politician and economist who serves as the current President of Germany. K?hler was narrowly German presidential election, 2004 by the Bundesversammlung on May 23, 2004 and was subsequently inaugurated on July 1, 2004....
  
• Junichiro Koizumi
  Junichiro Koizumi
  
  is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan of Japan from 2001 to 2006. He is going to retire from politics when his term in parliament ends....
  
• Lawrence Kudlow
  Lawrence Kudlow
  
  Lawrence "Larry" Kudlow , is a Conservatism in the United States American supply-side economics, television personality, and newspaper columnist....
  

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• Kenneth Lay
  Kenneth Lay
  
  Kenneth Lee "Ken" Lay was an United States businessman, best known for his role in the widely-reported corruption scandal that led to the downfall of Enron....
  
• Vladimir Lenin
• Steven Levitt
  Steven Levitt
  
  Steven David "Steve" Levitt is an United States economist known for his work in the field of crime, in particular on the Legalized abortion and crime effect....
  

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• Robert Mugabe
  Robert Mugabe
  
  Robert Gabriel Mugabe is the List of Presidents of Zimbabwe of Zimbabwe. He has held power as the head of government since 1980, as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987, and as the first executive head of state since 1987....
  

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• Henry Paulson
  Henry Paulson
  
  Henry Merritt "Hank" Paulson Jr. served as the 74th United States Secretary of the Treasury and is a member of the International Monetary Fund Board of Governors....
  
• Peter G. Peterson
• Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr.
  Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr.
  
  Clyde Prestowitz, founder and President of the Economic Strategy Institute, served as counselor to the Secretary of Commerce in the Reagan Administration....
  
• Romano Prodi
  Romano Prodi
  
  is an Politics of Italy and statesman. He served as President of the Council of Ministers of Italy of Italy twice, from 17 May 1996 to 21 October 1998 and from 17 May 2006 to 8 May 2008....
  

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• Walt Rostow

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• António de Oliveira Salazar
  António de Oliveira Salazar
  
  Ant?nio de Oliveira Salazar, Order of Infante D. Henrique, Order of the Tower and Sword, Order of St. James of the Sword, pronunciation....
  
• Helmut Schmidt
  Helmut Schmidt
  
  Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt is a Germany Social Democratic Party of Germany politician who served as Chancellor of Germany of West Germany from 1974 to 1982....
  
• George Shultz
• Costas Simitis
  Costas Simitis
  
  Konstantinos Simitis , usually referred to as Costas Simitis or Kostas Simitis, was Prime Minister of Greece and leader of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement from 1996 to 2004....
  
• Manmohan Singh
  Manmohan Singh
  
  Manmohan Singh is the 17th and current Prime Minister of India of the Republic of India. He also serves as the Ministry of Finance , succeeding P....
  
• George Soros
  George Soros
  
  George Soros is an United States currency Speculation, stock investor, businessman, philanthropist, and activism.Soros is estimated to be worth around $9.0 billion in net worth; he is ranked by Forbes as the List of billionaires ....
  
• Thomas Sowell
  Thomas Sowell
  
  Thomas Sowell , is an United States economist, social commentator, and author of dozens of books. He often writes from an economically laissez-faire perspective....
  
• Dominique Strauss-Kahn
  Dominique Strauss-Kahn
  
  Dominique Strauss-Kahn, often referred to as DSK, is a France economist, lawyer, and politician, member of the Socialist Party . He was selected as the new Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund on 28 September 2007....
  

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• Nicholas Tam
• Alejandro Toledo
  Alejandro Toledo
  
  Alejandro Celestino Toledo Manrique is a Peruvian politician and economist. He was List of Presidents of Peru of Peru from 2001 to 2006. He was elected in 2001 defeating former President Alan Garc?a....
  
• Leon Trotsky
• Donald Trump
  Donald Trump
  
  Donald John Trump is an United States business magnate, socialite, television personality, and author. He is the Chairman and CEO of the Trump Organization, a US-based real-estate developer....
  
• Laura D'Andrea Tyson
  Laura D'Andrea Tyson
  
  Laura D'Andrea Tyson is an United States economist and former Chair of the US President's Council of Economic Advisers during the Presidency of Bill Clinton....
  

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• Paul Volcker
  Paul Volcker
  
  Paul Adolph Volcker is an American economist. He was the Chairman of the Federal Reserve under President of the United Statess Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan ....
  

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• Jude Wanniski
  Jude Wanniski
  
  Jude Thaddeus Wanniski was an American journalism, conservative commentator, and political economist. He is perhaps best known as the associate editor of The Wall Street Journal from 1972 to 1978....
  
• Walter Williams
  Walter Williams
  
  Walter Williams may refer to:* Walter Williams , best known as the Saturday Night Live writer who created Mr. Bill* Walter Williams , founder of the Missouri School of Journalism...
  

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• Joseph Yam
  Joseph Yam
  
  Joseph Yam Chi-kwong has been the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority since its establishment in April 1993. He graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a Bachelor of Social Science degree, which is rare among central bankers as many of them got a PhD in Economics....
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• Muhammad Yunus
  Muhammad Yunus
  
  Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi banker and economist. He previously was a professor of economics where he developed the concept of microcredit....
  
• Viktor Yushchenko
  Viktor Yushchenko
  
  Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko is the third and current President of Ukraine. He took office on January 23, 2005.As an informal leader of the Our Ukraine, he was one of the two main candidates in the October–November 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, 2004....
  

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• Ernesto Zedillo
  Ernesto Zedillo
  
  Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Le?n is a Mexico economist and politician. He served as President of United Mexican States from December 1 1994 to November 30 2000, as the last of the uninterrupted seventy year line of Mexican presidents from the Institutional Revolutionary Party to the Institutional Revolutionary Party....
  

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