The Most Famous
ECONOMISTS from Cuba
This page contains a list of the greatest Cuban Economists. The pantheon dataset contains 414 Economists, 1 of which were born in Cuba. This makes Cuba the birth place of the 55th most number of Economists behind Somalia, and Georgia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Cuban Economists of all time. This list of famous Cuban Economists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Carmen Reinhart (b. 1955)
With an HPI of 42.35, Carmen Reinhart is the most famous Cuban Economist. Her biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Carmen M. Reinhart (née Castellanos, born October 7, 1955) is a Cuban-American economist and the Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System at Harvard Kennedy School. Previously, she was the Dennis Weatherstone Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for International Economics at the University of Maryland. She is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, Founding Contributor of VoxEU, and a member of Council on Foreign Relations. She is also a member of American Economic Association, Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, and the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy. She became the subject of general news coverage when mathematical errors were found in a research paper she co-authored. On May 20, 2020, Reinhart was appointed World Bank Chief Economist, starting on June 15, 2020. According to Research Papers in Economics (RePec), Reinhart is ranked among the top economists worldwide, based on publications and scholarly citations. She has testified before Congress and is listed among Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers, Thomson Reuters' The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds, and Bloomberg Markets Most Influential 50 in Finance. In December 2018, Reinhart received the King Juan Carlos Prize in Economics and Nabe's Adam Smith Award.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Cuban economists born between 1955 and 1955. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Cuban economists include Carmen Reinhart.
