Sung Won Sohn (born 1945) is a Korean American economist. He was named one of the top five most accurate economic forecasters in 2001 by Bloomberg News.
Sohn was born and raised in South Korea. He graduated from Gwangju No. 1 High School in 1962. He came to the United States that year to study economics as an undergraduate at the University of Florida in Gainesville on a partial scholarship. He earned his Master's in economics from Wayne State Un...
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Sung Won Sohn (born 1945) is a Korean American economist. He was named one of the top five most accurate economic forecasters in 2001 by Bloomberg News.
Sohn was born and raised in South Korea. He graduated from Gwangju No. 1 High School in 1962. He came to the United States that year to study economics as an undergraduate at the University of Florida in Gainesville on a partial scholarship. He earned his Master's in economics from Wayne State University, and then his Ph.D. in the same field from University of Pittsburgh, where his advisor was Marina von Neumann Whitman. His first wife, Barbara Stevens, died in a car crash on New Years Eve 1980. He and Barbara had two daughters, Anne and Rebecca. On January 25th, 2010, his first daughter, Anne tragically died. He eventually had remarried and had a son, Andrew, who studies at the Harvard-Westlake School. He also earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Sohn's Ph.D. advisor Whitman left Pittsburgh to become a member of the President...
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