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Dominique Strauss-Kahn

1949 - Today

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Dominique Gaston André Strauss-Kahn (French: [dɔminik stʁos kan]; born 25 April 1949), also known as DSK, is a French economist and politician who served as the tenth managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and was a member of the French Socialist Party. He attained notoriety due to his involvement in several sex scandals. He was a professor of economics at Paris West University Nanterre La Défense and Sciences Po, and was Minister of Economy and Finance from 1997 to 1999, as part of Lionel Jospin's Plural Left government. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dominique Strauss-Kahn has received more than 2,864,396 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Dominique Strauss-Kahn is the 55th most popular economist (down from 44th in 2019), the 856th most popular biography from France (down from 686th in 2019) and the 10th most popular French Economist.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn is most famous for being the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and for being accused of raping a hotel maid in New York.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Dominique Strauss-Kahn ranks 55 out of 414. Before him are Murray Rothbard, John Hicks, Thorstein Veblen, Tansu Çiller, Werner Sombart, and Bertil Ohlin. After him are Douglass North, Johann Heinrich von Thünen, Benjamin Graham, Wang Anshi, Theodore Schultz, and Oliver E. Williamson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Dominique Strauss-Kahn ranks 46. Before him are Thaksin Shinawatra, Lionel Richie, Fanny Ardant, Martin Amis, José Ramos-Horta, and Ottmar Hitzfeld. After him are Bill Nighy, Amin Maalouf, Don Johnson, Nando Parrado, Ruud Krol, and Ashraf Ghani.

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In France

Among people born in France, Dominique Strauss-Kahn ranks 856 out of 6,770. Before him are Bertrada of Laon (720), Arnaut Daniel (1150), Pierre Janssen (1824), Bruno Cremer (1929), Alain-René Lesage (1668), and Léon Gambetta (1838). After him are Emmanuelle Riva (1927), Georges Picquart (1854), Françoise Dorléac (1942), Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824), Alfred de Vigny (1797), and Louis Desaix (1768).

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Among ECONOMISTS In France

Among economists born in France, Dominique Strauss-Kahn ranks 10. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Say (1767), Jacques Delors (1925), Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727), Léon Walras (1834), Frédéric Bastiat (1801), and Maurice Allais (1911). After him are Jean-Claude Trichet (1942), Gérard Debreu (1921), Jean Tirole (1953), Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play (1806), Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay (1712), and Pierre Leroux (1797).

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