# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/c-fred-bergsten
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:23:21.992Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/c-fred-bergsten"
name: "C. Fred Bergsten"
slug: "c-fred-bergsten"
description: "C. Fred Bergsten is an American economist, author, think tank entrepreneur, and policy adviser. He has served as assistant for international economic affairs to Henry Kissinger within the National Security Council and as assistant secretary for international affairs at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. He was the founding director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, until 2006 the Institute for International Economics, which he established in 1981 and led through 2012. In addition to his academic work, he has been an influential public commentator and advisor to the American and global economic policy community, writing for influential periodicals such as Foreign Affairs magazine\nand by writing numerous books."
tagline: "American economist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/C-fred-bergsten.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1941-04-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.61
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.815372
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump