With his retirement on September 30, 2022, Len Tashman ended a 17- year reign as Foresight’s Founding Editor and over 20 years serving on the IIF’s Board of Directors. Len’s reputation as an exacting editor is well deserved (as evidenced by the [...]
Forecasting for Social Good (F4SG) committee Democratising forecasting is an initiative to educate university students, academics, and professionals on the principles of forecasting in developing economies. This project is created by the IIF F4SG committee, led by Bahman Rostami-Tabar of Cardiff University. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Making Forecasts More Trustworthy In this article, the authors, Simon Spavound and Nikolaos Kourentzes, argue that trustworthy forecasts have four key components – reliability, stability, intelligibility, and alignment with user needs – and they offer guidance on how organizations can adapt their [...]
Does forecast accuracy even matter? It has long been assumed that increased accuracy leads to better decisions and improved financial outcomes, but recent thinking (e.g. Johann ROBETTE ) now questions this assumption. Do you have a viewpoint on this matter? We invite [...]
For the nineteenth year, the IIF, in collaboration with SAS®, is proud to announce financial support for research on improving forecasting methods and business forecasting practice. The award for this year will be (2) $10,000 grants. The deadline date for applications is [...]
Every two years, the International Journal of Forecasting (IJF) awards a prize to the best paper on energy forecasting. The prize is generously funded by Professor Tao Hong. It consists of US$1000 as well as an engraved plaque. In 2022, the [...]
The IIF Board of Directors is pleased to announce John E. Boylan, Professor at Lancaster University, with the title of IIF Fellow, as a distinguished researcher in the field of forecasting. Please join us in congratulating John! John Boylan is Professor of [...]
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 [...]
