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Fakhruddin Ahmed

1940 - Today

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Fakhruddin Ahmed (Bengali: ফখরুদ্দীন আহমেদ, romanized: Fokhruddin Ahmed; born 1 May 1940) is a Bangladeshi economist, civil servant, and a former governor of the Bangladesh Bank, the country's central bank. He also served as the 4th Chief Adviser of Caretaker government of Bangladesh. On 12 January 2007, he was appointed Chief Adviser (head of the government) of the non-party interim caretaker government, during the 2006–2008 Bangladeshi political crisis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fakhruddin Ahmed has received more than 438,038 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Fakhruddin Ahmed is the 254th most popular economist (up from 277th in 2019), the 30th most popular biography from Bangladesh (down from 26th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Bangladeshi Economist.

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  • 440k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Fakhruddin Ahmed ranks 254 out of 414. Before him are Theodore Levitt, Esther Duflo, Robert Barro, Edward Chamberlin, Alexander Gerschenkron, and Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui. After him are Greg Mankiw, Tony Atkinson, Daron Acemoglu, Eugen Varga, Maurice Dobb, and Dennis Meadows.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Fakhruddin Ahmed ranks 276. Before him are Francesco Guccini, Endre Szemerédi, Luis María Echeberría, Farooq Leghari, Gheorghe Gruia, and Li Zhaoxing. After him are Johnny Nash, Levon Helm, Richard Lynch, Jacques Duquesne, Jia Qinglin, and Fleur Jaeggy.

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In Bangladesh

Among people born in Bangladesh, Fakhruddin Ahmed ranks 30 out of 74. Before him are Radhabinod Pal (1886), S. D. Burman (1906), Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad (1918), Patrick D'Rozario (1943), Mrinal Sen (1923), and A. K. Fazlul Huq (1873). After him are Ritwik Ghatak (1925), Taslima Nasrin (1962), Kalpana Datta (1913), Humayun Ahmed (1948), Fazlur Rahman Khan (1929), and Surya Sen (1894).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Bangladesh

Among economists born in Bangladesh, Fakhruddin Ahmed ranks 2. Before him are William Beveridge (1879).

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