Renowned Indian-origin academician Raghuram Rajan has been named alongside US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman among the seven most powerful economists in the world. According to a compilation in Forbes magazine by economist Nouriel Roubini, they asked a group of experts to pick seven influential individuals each from the world's nearly seven billion people for fields such as education, Hollywood, media, entrepreneurs, economists, energy, philanthropists, bloggers, designers, feminists and fashion. In the feminist category, Indian environmentalist Vandana Shiva has been named as one of the seven most powerful feminists in the world. Roubini, Harvard alumnus and New York University professor who predicted the global financial crisis, picked the world's most powerful economists. His list of seven includes US President Barack Obama's chief economic adviser Lawrence Summers, whose views are always very influential, regardless of whether or not he is in government, Bernanke, the most powerful central banker in the world and New York Times columnist Krugman, a strong and most articulate defender of Keynesian policies.