The IIF Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Len Tashman, the founding editor of Foresight and Foresight Editor-in-Chief (EIC) for the 17 years 2005-2022, has been designated as an IIF Fellow.
Please join us in congratulating Len! 
Len has had a significant impact in all these dimensions of forecasting:
- He was an academic at the University of Vermont for 30 years, from 1971 to 2001. During this time, he taught forecasting courses at the undergraduate and MBAl levels and published many influential forecasting articles, both in academic and practitioner outlets.
- Arguably, Len’s most influential paper is “Out-of-sample tests of forecasting accuracy: An analysis and review,” published in the IJF in 2000. This article has over 1000 citations and is used as introductory reading in many forecasting courses. Additionally, Len has co-edited two books, Business Forecasting: Practical Problems and Solutions (2015) and Business Forecasting: The Emerging Role of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (2021).
- Len was a member of the IIF board for over 20 years. During this time, he almost exclusively organized or supported the ISF practitioner track. Further, he was the General Chair of the very successful 2018 ISF in Boulder, Colorado as well as of six Foresight practitioner conferences.
Perhaps, Len’s most significant contribution to the forecasting community was his long-term effort to bridge the gap between forecasting theory and practice. This led to his founding of Foresight in 2005 and service as Editor-in-Chief from 2005-2022.
Our congratulations and thanks to Len Tashman for his contributions and commitment to the IIF, and to the forecasting community.
To learn more about the IIF Fellow program and the International Institute of Forecasters visit us at https://forecasters.org/about/fellows/.