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Fatih Birol

1958 - Today

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Fatih Birol (born 22 March 1958) is a Turkish economist and energy expert, who has served as the executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) since 1 September 2015. During his time in charge of the IEA, he has taken a series of steps to modernise the Paris-based international organisation, including strengthening ties with emerging economies like India and China and stepping up work on the clean energy transition and international efforts to reach net zero emissions. Birol was on the Time 100 list of the world's most influential people in 2021, has been named by Forbes magazine among the most influential people on the world's energy scene and recognised by the Financial Times in 2017 as Energy Personality of the Year. Birol is the chairman of the World Economic Forum (Davos) Energy Advisory Board. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Fatih Birol is the 357th most popular economist (down from 348th in 2019), the 1,224th most popular biography from Türkiye (down from 1,204th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Turkish Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Fatih Birol ranks 357 out of 414. Before him are Thomas Hodgskin, John Neville Keynes, Henry Charles Carey, Robert Torrens, Jagdish Bhagwati, and James Wilson. After him are Frank Fetter, Mariana Mazzucato, Erik Lindahl, Arkady Dvorkovich, W. Michael Blumenthal, and Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Fatih Birol ranks 400. Before him are Alexander Tarasov, Steve Sem-Sandberg, Lam Jones, Klaus Berggreen, Roberto López Ufarte, and Robert Dill-Bundi. After him are Sergei Pavlovich Baltacha, Kathy Hochul, Neil Finn, Dmitry Kozak, Christopher Young, and Tamara Bykova.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Fatih Birol ranks 1,224 out of 1,347. Before him are Oktay Rıfat Horozcu (1914), Okan Yalabık (1978), Yekta Uzunoglu (1953), Sinan Oğan (1967), Hatice Aslan (1962), and Kenan Doğulu (1974). After him are Ahmet Kireççi (1914), Türkân Akyol (1928), Erkan Petekkaya (1970), Sabiha Bengütaş (1904), Yaşar Erkan (1911), and Serdar Ortaç (1970).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Türkiye

Among economists born in Türkiye, Fatih Birol ranks 7. Before him are Henri Fayol (1841), Tansu Çiller (1946), Cornelius Castoriadis (1922), Dani Rodrik (1957), Daron Acemoglu (1967), and Nouriel Roubini (1958).

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