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Olivier Blanchard

1948 - Today

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Olivier Jean Blanchard (French: [blɑ̃ʃaʁ]; born December 27, 1948) is a French economist and professor who currently serves as the Robert M. Solow Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and as the C. Fred Bergsten Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He was the chief economist at the International Monetary Fund from September 1, 2008, to September 8, 2015. Blanchard was appointed to the position under the tenure of Dominique Strauss-Kahn; he was succeeded by Maurice Obstfeld. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Olivier Blanchard has received more than 350,031 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Olivier Blanchard is the 247th most popular economist (down from 230th in 2019), the 3,452nd most popular biography from France (down from 3,154th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular French Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Olivier Blanchard ranks 247 out of 315Before him are Leopold von Wiese, Ragnar Nurkse, William Phillips, Edward Chamberlin, Georg Friedrich Knapp, and Theodore Levitt. After him are Tony Atkinson, Leo Huberman, Kenichi Ohmae, David Card, Leszek Balcerowicz, and Ellen Swallow Richards.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Olivier Blanchard ranks 284Before him are Tony Ramos, Perry King, Shigesato Itoi, Sergei Bodrov, Kyung Wha Chung, and Eddy Grant. After him are Magdaléna Vášáryová, Gioconda Belli, Robert Hübner, Carol Potter, Philip Jackson, and Heinz Flohe.

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In France

Among people born in France, Olivier Blanchard ranks 3,452 out of 6,011Before him are Laurent Terzieff (1935), René Huyghe (1906), Gisèle Casadesus (1914), Tony Robert-Fleury (1837), Adolphe Niel (1802), and Harry Schell (1921). After him are Jules Simon (1814), Marie-Dominique Chenu (1895), Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau (1851), Suzanne Flon (1918), Théophile Thoré-Bürger (1807), and Louis de Buade de Frontenac (1622).

Among ECONOMISTS In France

Among economists born in France, Olivier Blanchard ranks 23Before him are Bertrand de Jouvenel (1903), Thomas Piketty (1971), Pierre Leroux (1797), Michel Camdessus (1933), Clément Juglar (1819), and Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert (1646). After him are Esther Duflo (1972) and Muriel Casals i Couturier (1945).

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