Wassily Leontief

Wassily Leontief (August 5, 1906 - February 5, 1999), born at St. Petersburg, Russia), was an economist notable for his research on how changes in one economic sector may have an effect on other sectors. Leontief won Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1973.

Memberships

• 1954: President of the Econometric Society
• 1968: Corresponding Member of the Institut de France
• 1970: President of the American Economic Association
• 1970: Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy
• 1974: US-USSR Commission on the Social Sciences and Humanities of the International Research and Exchanges Board
• 1975: American Committee on East-West Accord
• 1975: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincie, Italy
• 1976: President and Section F. of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
• 1976: Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy
• 1977: Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• 1978: Commission to Study the Organization of Peace
• 1978 - 1986: Board of Trustees of North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
• 1979: Century Club
• 1979: Issues Committee of the Progressive Alliance
• 1980: Committee for National Security
• 1981: Board of Visitors, College of Liberal Arts, Boston University
• 1981: Board of Editors, Journal of Business Strategy
• 1982: International Advisory Council of the Delian Institute of International Relations
• 1982: Accademia Mediterranea Delle Scienze, Italy
• 1983: Board of Advisors, Environmental Fund
• 1983: Board of Directors, Tolstoy Foundation
• 1985: International Committee, Carnegie-Mellon University
• 1990: Academy of Creative Endeavors, USSR
• 1992: International Charitable Foundation, Russia
• 1993: Academie Europeenne
• 1993: Honorary President of the World Academy for the Progress of Planning Science, Italy
• 1993: Member of the Academie Universelle des Cultures, France
• 1994: Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences
• 1995: Member of the International Leadership Center on Longevity & Society, Mt. Sinai Hospital
• American Philosophical Society
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• International Statistical Institute
• Honorary Member of the Japan Economic Research Center, Tokyo
• Honorary Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, London