The Most Famous
ECONOMISTS from Portugal
This page contains a list of the greatest Portuguese Economists. The pantheon dataset contains 414 Economists, 1 of which were born in Portugal. This makes Portugal the birth place of the 56th most number of Economists behind Georgia, and Cuba.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Portuguese Economists of all time. This list of famous Portuguese Economists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Carlos Moedas (b. 1970)
With an HPI of 39.90, Carlos Moedas is the most famous Portuguese Economist. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Carlos Manuel Félix Moedas (born 10 August 1970) is a Portuguese civil engineer, economist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), who is the current Mayor of Lisbon. From 2014 until 2019, Moedas served as European Commissioner covering the portfolio of Research, Science and Innovation under the leadership of President Jean-Claude Juncker. Between 2011 and 2014 he served as Secretary of State in the XIX Constitutional Government of Portugal. In March 2021, Moedas announced his candidacy as Mayor of Lisbon in the 2021 local elections, and was elected on 26 September of the same year.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Portuguese economists born between 1970 and 1970. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Portuguese economists include Carlos Moedas.
