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9 08, 2024

Member Profile: Laurent Ferrara

By |August 9th, 2024|Forecasting Blog, Member Profile|

Laurent Ferrara has been elected in July 2024 as President of the International Institute of Forecasters. He has been full Professor of International Economics at SKEMA Business School since September 2019.  He is also Adjunct Professor at the Paris School of Economics, [...]

10 06, 2024

Member Profile: Yanfei Kang

By |June 10th, 2024|Forecasting Blog, Member Profile|

  Yanfei Kang is an Associate Professor at the School of Economics and Management of Beihang University and Head of the Department of Quantitative Economics and Business Statistics. She received her PhD degree from Monash University and previously worked as a postdoctoral [...]

6 02, 2024

Member Profile: Niles Perera

By |February 6th, 2024|Forecasting Blog, Member Profile|

Niles Perera is a passionate forecasting researcher based in Sri Lanka who is motivated to contribute to his community through research and teaching. He is the Professor in Supply Chain Management at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka and holds a PhD [...]

9 10, 2023

Member Profile: Caston Sigauke

By |October 9th, 2023|Forecasting Blog, Member Profile|

Prof Caston Sigauke holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of the Free State, South Africa and an MSc in Operations Research from the National University of Science and Technology, Zimbabwe. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematical [...]

6 06, 2023

Member Profile: Matthew Schneider

By |June 6th, 2023|Forecasting Blog, Member Profile|

Prof Schneider is an Associate Professor in Decision Sciences and MIS at Drexel University. His research enables organizations to create useful data while protecting consumer data privacy. He creates flexible, but careful statistical methodologies that preserve the patterns required for profitable business [...]

7 12, 2022

Member Profile: Olga Bespalova

By |December 7th, 2022|Forecasting Blog, Member Profile|

Dr. Olga Bespalova is an Economist at the International Monetary Fund, where she currently works on Latin America and the Caribbean economies. She covers real, monetary, financial, and external sectors, focusing on estimating and forecasting models, analysis of the macro-financial linkages, and [...]

19 10, 2022

Member Profile: John Guerard, Jr.

By |October 19th, 2022|Forecasting Blog, Member Profile|

John Guerard, Jr., Ph.D. recently retired as Director of Quantitative Research at McKinley Capital Management, LLC, a systematic global growth asset management firm based in Anchorage, AK. He now serves as Chairman of the firm’s Scientific Advisory Board which contains 10 industry [...]

7 06, 2022

Member Profile: Paula Maçaira

By |June 7th, 2022|Forecasting Blog, Member Profile|

Paula Maçaira has a degree in Statistics, Masters's in Electrical Engineering (Decision Support Methods), and a PhD in Industrial Engineering (Production Management). She is a professor of statistics at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her research interests include [...]

3 02, 2022

Member Profile: Norman Swanson

By |February 3rd, 2022|Forecasting Blog, Member Profile|

Norman Swanson is a Professor of Economics specializing in Econometrics. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego under the Nobel laureate, Sir Clive W.J. Granger, and has undergraduate training from the University of Waterloo. His research interests include [...]

2 12, 2021

Member Profile: Doris Chenguang Wu

By |December 2nd, 2021|Forecasting Blog, Member Profile|

Doris Chenguang Wu is Professor of tourism demand forecasting in the School of Business at the Sun Yat-sen University, China. Her research interests include tourism demand modeling and forecasting, and tourism big data analytics. She is the founder of Tourism and Hospitality [...]

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