This is a list of economists who are also politicians, statesmen, central bankers, entrepreneurs, journalists, world leaders, and other notable persons with an academic background in economics. A *Kofi Annan *Óscar Arias *Dick Armey *Gloria Macapagal Arroyo *Benigno Aquino III B *Leszek Balcerowicz *Steve Ballmer *Ravi Batra *Ben Bernanke *Don Brash *Terence Burns, Baron Burns C *James Callaghan *Michel Camdessus *Aníbal Cavaco Silva *Tansu Çiller *Richard Cobden *Walt Rostow *Dilma Rousseff *Mar Roxas S *António de Oliveira Salazar *Carlos Salinas de Gortari *Alfred Sant *Helmut Schmidt *George Shultz *Costas Simitis *Manmohan Singh *George Soros *Thomas Sowell *Dominique Strauss-Kahn T *Alejandro Toledo *Leon Trotsky *Laura D'Andrea Tyson U V *Abhisit Vejjajiva *Paul Volcker W *Jude Wanniski *Walter Williams *Manny Villar X Y *Joseph Yam Chi-kwong *Muhammad Yunus *Viktor Yushchenko Z *Ernesto Zedillo *Jelle Zijlstra