dirtnapp / died in 2026 / is umar chapra alive or dead?
Umar Chapra
Saudi Arabian economist
browse: economists, academics
dead
- born
- 1933
- died
- 2026
- age at death
- 93
- known for
- economist, academic
1933 – 2026
tell everyone
who umar chapra is
Muhammad Umer Chapra was a Pakistani-Saudi economist. He was an economic advisor at the Islamic Research and Training Institute (IRTI) of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, as well as the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) where we worked for nearly 35 years.
where this comes from
wikidata records a date of death for Umar Chapra in 2026, which is how we know. your browser re-checks this against wikidata on every visit, so it’s current even if the page itself was cached a while ago.
read wikipedia →wikidata record (Q7881116) →something wrong? →
others who died in 2026

Edmund Phelps
deadAmerican economist
1933 – 2026
.jpg?width=1200)
Édouard Balladur
dead91st Prime Minister of France
1929 – 2026

Giorgos Vasiliou
dead3rd President of the Republic of Cyprus
1931 – 2026
.jpg?width=1200)
Susan George
deadAmerican and French political and social scientist, activist and writer
1934 – 2026
.jpg?width=1200)
Carlos Garaikoetxea Urriza
deadSpanish Basque politician
1938 – 2026
Iván T. Berend
dead(1930–2026) economics historian, Holocaust survivor
1930 – 2026