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Eleonore von Habsburg living

Gemmologist, jewellery designer, House of Habsburg-Lorraine
1994- (30)

Celina Midelfart living

Heiress of Midelfart Cosmetics, granddaughter of Ole Midelfart, executive chairman of Midelfart Capital AS
1973- (51)

Ian Livingstone living

Billionaire, real estate developer, co-owner of London & Regional Properties, chairman of Optika Clulow Group (David Clulow, Sunglass Hut), director at The Mayor's Fund for London
1962- (62)

Hedge fund manager, investor, commercial real estate developer, built the Harrow Mosque in 2011, founder & CEO of the private equity firm Abraaj Group ("Towers Group") from Abraaj Capital and Aureos Capital, founder of the Aman Foundation in 2008, the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) fined him $135 million and he was accused of being a fraudster
1960- (64)

Nicholas Eberstadt living

Political economist, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), author of Poverty in China, The North Korean Economy, The End of North Korea, A Nation of Takers, The Tyranny of Numbers, The Poverty of Communism, Men Without Work
1955- (69)

DeAnne Julius living

Chairman of the College Council of University College London, co-founder of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England, author of The Economics of Natural Gas
1949- (75)
deannejulius.com

Patrick Honohan living

Senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) since 2016, professor of Economics at Trinity College Dublin, banker, governor of the Central Bank of Ireland from 2009-2015
1949- (75)
piie.com

Mervyn King living

Economist, chairman of the Monetary Policy Committee, governor of the Bank of England from 2003-2013, member of the UK House of Lords since 2013, professor of economics at the London School of Economics, chairman of the Philharmonia
1948- (76)
group30.org

Geoffrey Hinton living

mathematician, reseacher, winner of the Turing Award, known as the godfather of AI, computer scientist, cognitive psychologist, pioneer in artificial intelligence, artificial neural networks
1947- (77)
cs.toronto.edu

Philip Giraldi living

Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, security columnist, writer, former CIA intelligence officer, ani
1946- (78)

Spiro Latsis living

billionaire heir, financier of EFG International (EFG Eurobank-Ergasias), son of cargo shipping magnate Yiannis Latsis, private jet owner
1946- (78)

Chris Gibson-Smith living

Businessman, financier, chairman of the London Stock Exchange from 2003-2015, partner at Life Assurance Co.
1945- (79)

Malcolm Knight living

Economist, banker, senior deputy governor and COO of the Bank of Canada from 1999-2003, professor of Finance at the London School of Economics and Political Science, director at Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
1944- (80)
bankofcanada.ca

Sir John Ritblat living

Property developer, real estate developer, president of the British Land Company, chairman of Delancey, VP of The Royal Institution of Great Britain, director on the British Library Board from 1995-2003, former chairman of The Wallace Collection from 2005-2014, London Business School from 2006-2014
1935- (89)
vll-minos.bl.uk

Harry Woolf living

Barrister, judge, lawyer, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 2000-2005, Master of the Rolls
1933- (91)
npg.org.uk

Peter Kenen

Economist, international economics, Walker Professor of Economics and International Finance at Princeton University
1932-2012 (80)
voxeu.org

George Soros living

billionaire hedge fund manager at Quantum Fund (Double Eagle), activist investor aka King of the Hedge Funds, pioneer of the General Theory of Reflexivity, survivalist, megalomaniac trader, economist, Black Wednesday (1992) infamously sold-short the British pound and broke the Bank of England, messianic founder of Open Society Foundations, author of The Bubble of American Supremacy, Crisis of Global Capitalism, Alchemy of Finance
1930- (94)
georgesoros.com

Frank Land living

Computer programmer, pioneer of information theory, UK professor of Information Systems, Department of IT at the London School of Economics
1928- (96)
archivesit.org.uk

Karl Popper

Philosopher, anthropologist, scientist, pioneer in historicism (philosophy, anthropology, sociology), empirical falsification, falsifiability of pseudoscience in 1935, author of The Open Society and Its Enemies
1902-1994 (92)
plato.stanford.edu

Charles Webster

Historian, foreign diplomat, member of the League of Nations (United Nations)
1886-1961 (75)

Graham Wallas

Fabian socialist aka Graham Wallace, psychologist, leader of the Fabian Society, pioneer in social psychology, educator, economist, co-founder of the London School of Economics, author of The Great Society in 1914 that created the plan for American socialism by LBJ (similar to JFK's New Frontier)
1858-1932 (74)

William Wynn Westcott

Supreme Magus of the S.R.I.A, freemasonry, co-founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in 1877, coroner, magician, Rosy Cross theosophist
1848-1925 (77)

William Stanley Jevons

Economist, neoclassical economics, philosopher, marginal revolution
1835-1882 (47)
plato.stanford.edu

John Stuart Mill (J.S. Mill)

Political philosopher, political economist, political theorist, educator, politician, MP of United Kingdom, financier of the University of London
1806-1873 (67)
plato.stanford.edu

Alan Howard

Billionaire macro hedge fund manager, macro trader, financier, co-founder of Brevan Howard Asset Management

Hasan Colakoglu

Billionaire, sold 50% of TEB Bank to BNP Parisbas for $217 million

Richard Perle

political strategist, political advisor, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs who served under President Ronald Reagan, lobbyist, wrote the paper on "The Israeli Clean Break", diplomat, US Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs, ran the "Total Data Awareness" program