Patricia Cornwell (1956)
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Adolfo Nicolás (1936)
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Darnell Williams (1955)
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Mahinda Rajapaksa (1945)
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Wieteke van Dort (1943)
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Ben Bernanke (1953)
Ben Shalom Bernanke is an American economist who served as the 14th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014. After leaving the Federal Reserve, he was appointed a distinguished fellow at…