Academic/intellectual Famous Names Starting with Letter V

A feminist scholar, activist, and author, whose work focuses on women in development, globalization,

A feminist scholar, activist, and author, whose work focuses on women in development, globalization, feminist networks, and female employment in the Middle East.She has taught and performed research at various institutions of higher education, and most recently (January 2007) earned the position of Director of the Women’s Studies Program at Purdue University, where she is also a Professor of Sociology. Prior to this appointment, Moghadam worked for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization as the chief of gender equality and development.[1]

Holds the extraordinary professorship in ‘ICT and Social Change’ at the Faculty of Philosophy at

Holds the extraordinary professorship in ‘ICT and Social Change’ at the Faculty of Philosophy at the Erasmus University Rotterdam were she belongs to the group of Professor Dr. Jos de Mul.

An Iranian-American academic and scholar, as well as Professor of International Politics at the Flet

An Iranian-American academic and scholar, as well as Professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University.An expert in contemporary Middle Eastern affairs and Islam and politics, in January, 2006, Nasr was named the Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan think-tank focusing on foreign policy. He is also a Senior Fellow with The Dubai Initiative, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He was named Carnegie Scholar in 2006.

Is a Greek seismologist. Papazachos has always attracted publicity in his country Greece, which is h

Is a Greek seismologist. Papazachos has always attracted publicity in his country Greece, which is highly seismogenic and has been tormented by many earthquakes both in historic and prehistoric times. He is an ardent opposer of Panayotis Varotsos and the VAN method for earthquake forecast, which he called "the greatest science joke of the century".

Professor of economics at Chapman University School of Law and School of Business in Orange, Califor

Professor of economics at Chapman University School of Law and School of Business in Orange, California, a research scholar at George Mason University Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science, and a Fellow of the Mercatus Center, all in Arlington, Virginia. Smith shared the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with Daniel Kahneman.

Was a German mineralogist, natural philosopher, and art collector. His Atlas der Krystallformen grew

Was a German mineralogist, natural philosopher, and art collector. His Atlas der Krystallformen grew from 1913 until 1923. At this time, in 1917, he was made a geheimer Hofrat ("secret court councilor"). In 1923, he was made an honorary member of the Naturhistorisch-Medizinischen Verein Heidelberg. In 1919, he donated his and his wife's extensive collection of art and ethnographic artefacts as Josephine and Eduard von Portheim-Stiftung to the state of Baden. In 1933, the curatorium of the "v. Portheim-Stiftung" gave its mineralogical-crystallographical institute the name Victor-Goldschmidt-Institut für Kristallforschung. While on the faculty at Heidelberg, one of his later famous students was Thomas Jaggar.

Was a leading scholar on business cycles, indicators, and forecast evaluation. Dr. Zarnowitz was Sen

Was a leading scholar on business cycles, indicators, and forecast evaluation. Dr. Zarnowitz was Senior Fellow and Economic Counselor to The Conference Board. He was Professor Emeritus of Economics and Finance, Graduate School of Business, The University

Was one of the most outstanding rabbis in recent centuries. He was an exceptional Talmudist, Halachi

Was one of the most outstanding rabbis in recent centuries. He was an exceptional Talmudist, Halachist and Kabbalist, and was the foremost leader of non-hasidic world Jewry. He is commonly referred to in Hebrew as ha'Gaon ha'Chasid mi'Vilna, "the saintly

Is the portfolio manager for social media at Vodacom, a South African mobile telecommunications oper

Is the portfolio manager for social media at Vodacom, a South African mobile telecommunications operator. Previously he was the strategist at the Mail & Guardian Online, in Johannesburg South Africa and the founder of the political blog Thought Leader and blog aggregator Amatomu.com.After obtaining a B. Journ degree from Rhodes University, Maher started his career in 1997 at VWV Interactive, the then leading South African web development company. He pioneered use of several technologies on the South African web, including early versions of Macromedia Flash (then FutureSplash).

Is a Romanian composer, pianist and professor, living in Germany since 1982. In 1982 she moved to We

Is a Romanian composer, pianist and professor, living in Germany since 1982. In 1982 she moved to West Germany. Her first opera Hunger und Durst after Eugène Ionesco was premiered in Freiburg in 1986.[2] Der 35. Mai (The 35th of May, or Conrad's Ride to the South Seas), a children's opera after Erich Kästner was composed in 1986, Eréndira after a short story by Gabriel García Márquez in 1992, Schachnovelle (The Royal Game) after Stefan Zweig in 1994.[3] The operas have been performed at leading opera houses, as Der 35. Mai at the Staatsoper Hamburg in 2004.[4] She worked for the Austrian theatre ARBOS on two music theatre projects, "The Singing of The Fools About Europe"[5] and "The Concert of Birds".[6] Herzriss, an opera in nuce for voice and percussion after Homer, Ionesco and Márquez, was premiered in 2005.[7]

Virgilio G. Enriquez is known as the Father of Filipino Psychology "Ama ng Sikolohiyang Pilipino", P

Virgilio G. Enriquez is known as the Father of Filipino Psychology "Ama ng Sikolohiyang Pilipino", Pambansang Samahan sa Sikolohiyang Pilipino, (National Organization of Filipino Psychology) a field he established in 1975.

Is a Professor of Economics, a Senior Fellow of the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and Internatio

Is a Professor of Economics, a Senior Fellow of the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies (GFSIS) and a Member of the Parliament of Georgia (Committee for Finance and Budget).