The IIF Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Gloria González-Rivera, Professor of Economics at the University of California, Riverside, has been designated as an IIF Fellow.
Please join us in congratulating Gloria! 
Gloria has had a significant impact in all these dimensions of forecasting:
- She was appointed Associate Dean for the Social Sciences within the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (2020-2025) and Chair of the Economics Department (2003-2008). Elected to the Board of Directors of the International Institute of Forecasters in 2011, she served as its President from 2016-2020.
- Gloria’s research has been published in top econometric journals. She has also written a textbook in forecasting, Forecasting for Economics and Business, published by Routledge/Taylor and Francis Group (2016, 2013), which received great reviews and was adopted in many American and European economics and business departments.
- González-Rivera is a Fulbright Scholar; she was awarded the UC-Riverside University Scholar distinction (2007-2011) for her research and teaching contributions as well as several teaching awards at UC-San Diego. In 2015, she was awarded an honorific Chair of Excellence by the Universidad Carlos III/Banco de Santander, Madrid (Spain). She was an associate editor for the International Journal of Forecasting, The American Statistician, and a guest editor for Advances in Econometrics.
- Gloria was a member of the IIF board for 11 years. During this time, she was the General Chair of the 2015 International Symposium on Forecasting in Riverside, CA and served the Institute in many other capacities.
Our congratulations and thanks to Gloria González-Rivera for her 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/.