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Kenneth L. Judd
Kenneth L. Judd is an economist and Senior Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, known for founding computational economics, the textbook Numerical Methods in Economics, and the Chamley–Judd capital tax result.
Kenneth R. French
Kenneth R. French is an American financial economist at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, best known for asset pricing models using size, value, profitability, and investment factors.
Kenneth Rogoff
Kenneth Rogoff is an American economist and Harvard professor known for work on international finance, the 2009 book This Time Is Different, and chess grandmaster status.
Kenneth Singleton
Kenneth J. Singleton is an American financial economist, the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Emeritus at Stanford Graduate School of Business, known for asset pricing econometrics.
Kenneth Spence
Kenneth Spence (1907–1967) was an American experimental psychologist at the University of Iowa who revised Hull's drive theory by giving incentive motivation an independent role in learning.
Kenneth Train
Kenneth Train is an American economist at the University of California, Berkeley, best known for the mixed logit model and his textbook Discrete Choice Methods with Simulation.
Kenneth Wachter
Kenneth W. (Ken) Wachter is an American mathematical demographer and statistician at UC Berkeley, known for pioneering demographic microsimulation and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1999.
Kevin Bales
Kevin Bales is an abolitionist academic, co-founder and president of Free the Slaves, author of Disposable People (1999), and Professor of Contemporary Slavery at the University of Nottingham.
Kevin M. Kruse
Kevin M. Kruse (born 1972) is a Princeton University professor of 20th-century American political, urban, and suburban history, author of White Flight (2005), One Nation Under God (2015), and Fault Lines with Julian Zelizer, and co-editor of Myth America.
Kevin M. Murphy
Kevin M. Murphy is an American economist at the University of Chicago known for work on wage inequality, rational addiction, and the economic value of longer life.
Kilian Huber
Kilian Huber is an economist trained at the London School of Economics who has been a professor at Chicago Booth since 2025, studying banking, firms, and the cost of capital.
Kim Rossmo
Kim Rossmo is a Canadian criminologist and former Vancouver detective who developed geographic profiling, estimating an offender's residence from crime locations, and now teaches at Texas State University.
Kirk Heilbrun
Kirk Heilbrun is an American forensic psychologist and Drexel University professor, past president of the American Psychology-Law Society and author of Principles of Forensic Mental Health Assessment (2001).
Kjell G Salvanes
Kjell G Salvanes (born 1956) is a Norwegian labor economist and professor at the Norwegian School of Economics, known for research on inequality and intergenerational mobility.
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Klaus F. Zimmermann (born 1952) is a German labor economist who founded the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn and directs the Global Labor Organization.
Knud Rasmussen
Knud Rasmussen (1879–1933), Danish-Greenlandic polar explorer and ethnologist, led the seven Thule expeditions from his Thule trading station; his Fifth Thule Expedition (1921–24) crossed Arctic North America by dog sled, collecting about 20,000 Inuit artifacts.
Krishnamurthy Subramanian
Krishnamurthy V. Subramanian, Indian economist, 17th Chief Economic Adviser of India (2018-2021), ISB finance professor, IMF Executive Director for South Asia until 2025, and author of India@100.
Krišjānis Valdemārs
Krišjānis Valdemārs, born Christian Woldemar (1825–1891), was a Latvian economist and publicist, a leading founder of the Young Latvian movement who founded the Ainaži nautical school and is called the father of Latvian seafaring.
Kristen Hawkes
Kristen Hawkes is an American anthropologist at the University of Utah, known for the grandmother hypothesis and long-term fieldwork among the Hadza of Tanzania and the Aché of Paraguay.
Kristen Wenz
Kristen Wenz is a demographer serving as Global Lead for Birth Registration and Legal Identity at UNICEF, known for a TED talk on the billion people lacking legal identity.
Kurt C. Stange
Kurt C. Stange is an American family physician and public health researcher at Case Western Reserve University, known for applying complexity science to primary care and founding the Annals of Family Medicine.
Kwasi Boakye
Kwasi Boakye, also spelled Aquasi Boachi, was an Asante prince who trained as a mining engineer in Delft and worked in the Dutch East Indies.
Kym Anderson
Kym Anderson, born 1950 in Adelaide, South Australia, is an Australian economist and George Gollin Professor Emeritus at the University of Adelaide, known for measuring distortions to agricultural incentives worldwide.
Larissa Adler Lomnitz
Larissa Adler Lomnitz (1932–2019) was a French-born Chilean-Mexican anthropologist at UNAM whose 1975 book on how Mexico City's urban poor survived through exchange networks became a classic of urban anthropology.
Larry Bumpass
Larry Bumpass (Larry Lee Bumpass) is an American family demographer, emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2001.
Larry Epstein
Larry G. Epstein is an economist and decision theorist, Professor at McGill University since 2021, known for the Epstein–Zin recursive utility framework and ambiguity aversion research with Martin Schneider.
Larry R. Churchill
Larry R. Churchill is an American bioethicist who held the Ann Geddes Stahlman chair at Vanderbilt and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1991.
Larry Samuelson
Larry Samuelson, born 1953, is an American economic theorist at Yale known for evolutionary game theory and repeated games, and president of the Econometric Society in 2025.
Lars E.o. Svensson
Lars E.o. Svensson is a Swedish economist credited with advancing inflation targeting, who served as Deputy Governor of Sveriges Riksbank from 2007 to 2013 and taught at Princeton.
Lasse Heje Pedersen
Lasse Heje Pedersen, also known as Lasse Pedersen, is a financial economist at Copenhagen Business School and AQR Capital Management, known for his work on liquidity risk and asset pricing.