The Most Famous
ECONOMISTS from South Korea
This page contains a list of the greatest South Korean Economists. The pantheon dataset contains 315 Economists, 1 of which were born in South Korea. This makes South Korea the birth place of the 53rd most number of Economists behind Mexico and Serbia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary South Korean Economists of all time. This list of famous South Korean Economists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Ha-Joon Chang (1963 - )
With an HPI of 45.43, Ha-Joon Chang is the most famous South Korean Economist. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.
Ha-Joon Chang (; Korean: 장하준; born 7 October 1963) is a South Korean economist and academic. Chang specialises in institutional economics and development, and lectured in economics at the University of Cambridge from 1990-2021 before becoming professor of economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in 2022. Chang is the author of several bestselling books on economics and development policy, most notably Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective (2002). In 2013, Prospect magazine ranked Chang as one of the top 20 World Thinkers. Chang has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the European Investment Bank, as well as to Oxfam and various United Nations agencies. He is also a fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. In addition, Chang serves on the advisory board of Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP).
Pantheon has 1 people classified as economists born between 1963 and 1963. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living economists include Ha-Joon Chang.
