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John Lipsky

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John Phillip Lipsky (born February 19, 1947) is an American economist. He was the acting managing director of the International Monetary Fund from May to July 2011. He assumed the post of acting managing director after Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested in May 2011 accused of sexual assault. After the appointment of Christine Lagarde he returned to his post as the first deputy managing director of the IMF. He retired from the IMF in November 2011 and is currently a distinguished visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. John Lipsky is the 333rd most popular economist (down from 329th in 2024), the 8,844th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,786th in 2019) and the 110th most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, John Lipsky ranks 333 out of 414. Before him are David Landes, Käthe Leichter, Robert Rubin, Anna Schwartz, Paul A. Baran, and Bernard Lietaer. After him are Dambisa Moyo, Jacob Viner, John R. Commons, Abel Aganbegyan, Henryk Grossman, and Ilham Tohti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, John Lipsky ranks 646. Before him are Volodymyr Troshkin, Giuseppe Savoldi, Gérard Collomb, Stuart Hameroff, Torsten Palm, and Bernie Leadon. After him are Grethe Kausland, Rita Wilden, Sten Stensen, Blagoje Paunović, Gennadiy Seleznyov, and Meredith Baxter.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Lipsky ranks 8,846 out of 20,380. Before him are Jake E. Lee (1957), Jeane Dixon (1904), Wallace Reid (1891), Thelma Houston (1946), John Huchra (1948), and Teddy Riley (1967). After him are Marc Randolph (1958), Glenne Headly (1955), Lothrop Stoddard (1883), William Fields (1929), Alley Mills (1951), and Charles Stark Draper (1901).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, John Lipsky ranks 110. Before him are Wesley Clair Mitchell (1874), Walter Block (1941), Anne Osborn Krueger (1934), David Landes (1924), Robert Rubin (1938), and Anna Schwartz (1915). After him are John R. Commons (1862), Don Patinkin (1922), Fischer Black (1938), Edith Abbott (1876), Henry Charles Carey (1793), and Frank Fetter (1863).

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