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Dominique Strauss-Kahn

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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. He sought the nomination in the Socialist Party presidential primary of 2006, but was defeated by Ségolène Royal. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dominique Strauss-Kahn is the 54th most popular economist (up from 55th in 2019), the 826th most popular biography from France (up from 856th in 2019) and the 9th 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 54 out of 414. Before him are Bertil Ohlin, Tansu Çiller, Edmund Phelps, Ronald Coase, Gary Becker, and Trygve Haavelmo. After him are Karl Polanyi, Jeffrey Sachs, Werner Sombart, Theodore Schultz, Frédéric Bastiat, and Reinhard Selten.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Dominique Strauss-Kahn ranks 56. Before him are Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, José Ramos-Horta, Fanny Ardant, Robert Palmer, Don Johnson, and Ottmar Hitzfeld. After him are Robin Gibb, Sebastián Piñera, Jarosław Kaczyński, Shelley Duvall, Margareta of Romania, and Issei Sagawa.

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In France

Among people born in France, Dominique Strauss-Kahn ranks 826 out of 6,770. Before him are Edme Mariotte (1620), Gabriel Tarde (1843), Jacques Charles (1763), Eugène Sue (1804), Jean-Pierre Léaud (1944), and Maria Schneider (1952). After him are Marcellin Berthelot (1827), Robert Nivelle (1856), Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1817), Roscellinus (1050), Georges Sorel (1847), and Louis, Prince of Condé (1530).

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Among ECONOMISTS In France

Among economists born in France, Dominique Strauss-Kahn ranks 9. Before him are François Quesnay (1694), Jean-Baptiste Say (1767), Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727), Maurice Allais (1911), Léon Walras (1834), and Jacques Delors (1925). After him are Frédéric Bastiat (1801), Gérard Debreu (1921), Jean-Claude Trichet (1942), Jean Tirole (1953), Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play (1806), and Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay (1712).

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