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Muhammad Yunus
Bangladeshi banker, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and the former Chief Adviser of Bangladesh
Norman Borlaug
American biologist (1914–2009)
Paulo Freire
Brazilian educator and philosopher (1921–1997)

Jeffrey Sachs
American economist (born 1954)

Andrey Korotayev
Russian anthropologist, economic historian, comparative political scientist, and sociologist

Prince Claus, Prince Consort of the Netherlands
Consort of the Netherlands (1980 - 2002)
E. F. Schumacher
British economist (1911–1977)
Amy Chua
American law professor and writer (born 1962)

Ha-Joon Chang
South Korean economist
Lester Russell Brown
American environmental analyst
Walden Bello
Philippine political economist and socialist politician
Akhtar Hameed Khan
Development activist, social scientist (1914–1999)
Alexander Chayanov
Soviet scholar (1888–1937)
Ester Boserup
Danish economist (1910–1999)
Manfred Max-Neef
Professor of economics; environmentalist; Chilean presidential candidate (1932-2019)
Sulak Sivaraksa
Thai pacifist
Perween Rahman
Pakistani activist (1957–2013)

David Korten
writer, economic adviser, sustainability advocate
Daria Khaltourina
sociologist and anthropologist
Arturo Escobar
Colombian anthropologist
Rogelio Julio Frigerio
Argentine politician (1914-2006)

Teodor Shanin
Polish sociologist (1930–2020)
Diane Elson
British academic
Sombath Somphone
Laotian activist
Peter Worsley
British sociologist (1924–2013)
Wolfgang Sachs
German academic
Martha Chen
American academic
Frank-Jürgen Richter
German businessman (born 1967)
Hamza Alavi
sociologist (1921–2003)
Virginia Abernethy
American anthropologist and activist
Eunice Musiime
Human Rights Activist in Uganda
George Counts
American educator (1889–1974)
John Hatch
American Academic
Keith Lewin
Education specialist