The Most Famous
ECONOMISTS from Algeria
This page contains a list of the greatest Algerian Economists. The pantheon dataset contains 414 Economists, 1 of which were born in Algeria. This makes Algeria the birth place of the 32nd most number of Economists behind Belarus, and Saint Kitts and Nevis.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Algerian Economists of all time. This list of famous Algerian Economists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Jacques Attali (b. 1943)
With an HPI of 60.97, Jacques Attali is the most famous Algerian Economist. His biography has been translated into 28 different languages on wikipedia.
Jacques José Mardoché Attali (French pronunciation: [ʒak atali]; born 1 November 1943) is a French economic and social theorist, writer, political adviser and senior civil servant. A very prolific writer, Attali published 86 books in 54 years, between 1969 and 2023. Attali served as a counselor to President François Mitterrand from 1981 to 1991, and was the first head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development from 1991 to 1993. In 1997, upon the request of education minister Claude Allègre, he proposed a reform of the higher education degrees system. From 2008 to 2010, he led the government committee on how to ignite the growth of the French economy, under President Nicolas Sarkozy. Attali co-founded the European program EUREKA, dedicated to the development of new technologies. He also founded the non-profit organization PlaNet Finance, now called Positive Planet, and is the head of Attali & Associates (A&A), an international consultancy firm on strategy, corporate finance and venture capital. Interested in the arts, he has been nominated to serve on the board of the Musée d’Orsay. He has published more than fifty books, including Verbatim (1981), Noise: The Political Economy of Music (1985), Labyrinth in Culture and Society: Pathways to Wisdom (1999), and A Brief History of the Future (2006). In 2009, Foreign Policy called him as one of the top 100 "global thinkers" in the world.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Algerian economists born between 1943 and 1943. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Algerian economists include Jacques Attali.
