Spyros Makridakis University of Nicosia IIF Founding Father and Fellow How did it all begin (IIF/ISF and the JF/IJF)? Towards the end of the 1970s, I was working at INSEAD France when the editor of Wiley UK visited me at the university. [...]
Yves Sagaert University of Ghent How did you get started in forecasting? In 2012, I got in touch with the field of forecasting through my master thesis. This inspired me to start a PhD the very next year. I did my research [...]
Sarah Van der Auweraer PhD candidate, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business How did you become a forecaster? After my master in business engineering I got the opportunity to pursue a PhD at KU Leuven in 2015. The topic of the PhD aimed [...]
Bahman Rostami-Tabar, PhD Assistant Professor in Logistics and Operations Management, Cardiff University How did you become a forecaster? While pursuing a bachelor degree in industrial engineering I was first exposed to forecasting in an inventory control course I took at the time. [...]
Shari De Baets, Research Associate, Vlerick Business School How did you become a forecaster? I started working as a researcher on business research projects in 2010. One of the topics centered on decision-making and more specifically, the heuristics-and-biases tradition. While looking for literature [...]
How did you become a forecaster? While pursuing a master’s degree in industrial engineering I was exposed to forecasting in an operations research and supply chain management course. I was also introduced to the classic book Forecasting: Methods and Applications by Makridakis, Wheelwright, [...]
How did you become a forecaster? It is a little fraudulent for me to claim that I am a forecaster! When asked to give an explicit forecast, the one thing I have learnt from my research is that forecasting is a perilous [...]
How did you become a forecaster? My path to forecasting was more like a maze than a straight line. In 2005, I joined North Carolina State University’s Electrical Engineering doctoral program. Halfway through my PhD study, in January 2008, I started working [...]
How did you get started in forecasting? While studying for my bachelor’s degree in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), I was very fortunate to meet my mentor, Kostas Nikolopoulos, at that time coordinator of the Forecasting [...]
Why I became a Forecaster Herman Stekler In writing this little biographical sketch, I have come to realize that reconstructing historical events as they occurred in real-time is as difficult as making an actual forecast. I did not plan on becoming a forecaster; [...]
