Edward C. Prescott
Nobel Laureate in Economics
Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University. Regents Professor of Economics, Arizona State University, W.P. Carey School of Business.
Finn E. Kydland
Nobel Laureate in Economics
Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University. Henley Profesor of Economics, University of California Santa Barbara.
Thomas J. Sargent
Nobel Laureate in Economics
Ph.D. Harvard University. William R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Business, New York University. Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford, CA.
José-María Montero
Director-Coordinator of the Academic Board
Professor of Applied Economics (Statistics), University of Castilla-La Mancha. President of the International Association of Applied Economics ASEPELT. Honorary Lifetime Member of the International Atlantic Economic Society (USA). VicePresident of the International Association CESTIRA. Assessor for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Editor-in-Chief and member of the Editorial Board of a number of journals in economics, finance and statistics.
Juan Sánchez-Calero Guilarte
Professor of Commercial Law, University Complutense of Madrid. Sánchez Calero Law Firm Partner. President of Endesa, S.A. and of the Endesa Foundation.
Nathalie Delapalme
Executive Director, Mo Ibrahim Foundation. Inspecteur General des Finances, Ministry of Economy and Finance, France (2007-2010). Advisor for Africa and Development in the offices of various Foreign Affairs Ministers (1995-1997 and 2002-2007). Advisor for the Finance and Budgetary Commission, French Senate (1984-1995 and 1997-2002). Member of the Board of IFRI (Institut Français des Relations Internationales). Recipient of a number of awards and honours. She is Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur in France.
Abdel El-Shaarawi
Professor of Mathematics, McMaster University, University of British Columbia, National Water Research Inst., Canada. Founder of The International Environmetrics Society and Environmetrics. Distinguished Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (UK), the American Statistical Association (USA), Twentieth Century Distinguished Service Award for its outstanding contribution to environmental statistics. Distinguished Medal, American Statistical Association Excellence Award, Government of Canada. Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Lorraine, France.
Yanyun Zhao
Professor of Economics, Renmin University of China (Beijing). Director Head, School of Statistics, one of the key research centers in humanities and social sciences funded by the Ministry of Education, People’s Republic of China. Home of the Secretariat for the National MAS Education Steering Committee of the Council of State and the Ministry of Education. Advisor to the Central Government of the People’s Republic of China.
Philibert Afrika
Seasoned Development Economist, Founding member and Chairman, University of Kigali, Rwanda. He worked for 30 years at the African Development Bank, high managerial functions (Secretary General, Director of Policy, Operations and Regional Integration). Member Board, Access Bank-Rwanda. Chairman Board of Directors, Cogebank. Co-Founder and Managing Director, University of Kigali Center For Economic Governance and Leadership.
Katherine S. Virgo
Professor of Health Policy and Management, Emory University (Atlanta, USA). Executive Vice President, International Atlantic Economic Society (USA). Research expert in Health Services. Internationally recognized cancer specialist. Managing Director, Health Services Research, American Cancer Society (2008-2012), Professor, Department of Surgery, Saint Louis University (2001-2008), Statistics, Department Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Saint Louis (USA) (1993- 2008). Co-founder, International Health Economics and Management Institute.
J.D. Agarwal
Distinguished Professor of Finance and Chairman, Indian Institute of Finance (IIF). Founder of the Jyoti Foundation. Editor-in-Chief of Finance India, with an exalted editorial board including six Nobel Laureates. International observer. He participates in the meetings of Asian Development Bank Board of Governors, OECD, World Bank and IMF. Recipient of several awards/citations. Member of the Editorial Board of a number of scientific journals in finance.
Philip Arestis
Professor of Economics, Cambridge University (UK). Director of Research, Cambridge Centre for Economics and Public Policy. Emeritus Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge. Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Economics, University of Utah. ‘Queen Victoria Eugenia’ award, British Hispanic Chair of Doctoral Studies. Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK). Thomas Divine Award of the Association for Social Economics. Chief Academic (external) Adviser to the UK Government (2005-2013).
Ansgar Belke
Professor of Macroeconomics, Institute of Business and Economic Studies Director, University of Duisburg-Essen. President of the European Economics and Finance Society. Member of Monetary Expert Panel, European Parliament. External consultant, European Commission and European Union Committee of the House of Lords (UK). Research Director of International Macroeconomics. German Institute for Economic Research. Research Professor, Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels).
Guido Ferrari
Honorary Professor of Statistics, University of Florence, Renmin University of China and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Honorary President for the International Network for Economic Research in Tourism and Environment, Spain. Statistical Advisor in more than 50 countries. Considered the greatest international expert in applying statistics to the economy and government policies. He has published over 100 articles and dozens of monographs and textbooks.
José Antonio Filipe
Professor of Mathematics, Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Member of numerous international organizations (in European Union, India, USA, Brazil), with different roles. Consultant, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries of the Portuguese Government. Member of the College of Expert Reviewers and of the College of Review Panel Members of ESF-European Science Foundation. Fellow Member, Institute of Integrative Omics and Applied Biotechnology.
Muhhammad Imran Qureshi
Professor of Management. Technical University of Malaysia Malacca | utem. Faculty of Technology Management and Technopreneurship. Founding director of Connecting Academia, Society & Industry Alliance (Connecting ASIA) Research Network.
Dietl Marek
Assistant Professor in Economics, Warsaw School of Economics, University of Warsaw. President of the Warsaw Stock Exchange Management Board. Extensive experience on the Supervisory Boards of listed companies. Social advisor to three successive Presidents of the Energy Regulatory Office, Poland. Mediator at the Court of Arbitration, Polish Financial Supervision Authority (2008-2013). Advisor to the President of Poland.
James Ming Chen
Professor of Constitutional Law (Justin Smith Morrill Chair in Law), Michigan State University College of Law. Former Dean, University of Louisville School of Law. Elected member, American Law Institute. Public member, Administrative Conference of the United States. Counsellor to the Technology Law Group, he coined the term Jurisdynamics. In 2012, National Jurist magazine named him one of the 25 most influential people in legal education.
Andrew Mold
Chief, Regional Integration and the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Cluster, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, based at their Kigali office. Head of Finance for OECD Development Centre (Paris, 2008-2011), having previously worked for the United Nations Secretariat in Ethiopia and Chile and for UNICEF in Costa Rica. Masters degree in Economics and Politics of Development from Cambridge University. Editor of the European Journal of Development Research (2003-2009). Author of numerous research articles in a wide number of international journals.
Viviane Naimy
Professor of Finance and the Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics at Notre Dame University, Lebanon. She has published a large number of articles in the fields of risk management and financial modeling and received many awards in recognition of excellence in research.
Naimy worked for several banks and provided extensive training to executive directors of financial institutions in Europe and the Arab countries and is still serving as financial consultant in cases involving risk management, oil, and financial matters.
Ebenezer Oduro Owusu
Professor of Entomology, Vice-Chancellor, University of Ghana. Member, University of Cambridge-Africa Partnership (CAPREx) for Research Excellence, “Kenjin-Tatsujin” Japan International Advisory Council (supports the Ashinaga African Leaders Initiative). Named “Living Legend” by the People of Kochi, Japan. Japanese Foreign Ministers Commendation Award for his contribution to friendship Japan-Other countries (2013). The Emperor of Japan awarded him the order of the ‘Rising Sun with Gold’ for his contribution to humanity (2017).
Alexei Orlov
Professor of Economics, Radford University (USA). Financial economist, Division of Economic and Risk Analysis of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission-SEC (Office of Data Science), Washington. Member of the Department of Strategy and Competition Division, UK Financial Conduct Authority Commission (UK Government), London. Author of many international scientific articles and member of the Editorial Board of prestigious journal in economics and finance.
Jean Paelinck
Professor of Econometrics, George Mason University (USA) and Erasmus University Rotterdam. Founder of the Spatial Econometrics, term coined by himself. More than 55 books and over 300 papers in refereed journals. Chevalier de l’Ordre de le Couronne, Belgium. Former president of the Regional Science Association, the Belgian Statistical Society, the European Association of Applied Economics, the Applied Econometrics Association, and the Spatial Econometrics Association. He holds seven Honorary Doctorates.
Emilio Porcu
Professor of Statistics, Trinity College (Dublin) and Newcastle University. He has published more than one hundred referred papers in the most prestigious international scientific journals in spatio-temporal geostatistics. Considered one of the best experts in the quantitative aspects of seismomatics, climatology and natural disasters. J. Stuart Hunter Award to the best international scientist 2017, by The International Environmetrics Society and the GRASPA Environmental Research Group.
François – Éric Racicot
Professor of Quantitative Finance and Applied Economics (Econometrics), Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa. Member of the Editorial Board of prestigious journals of economics and finance. Member of GReFA (Groupe de Recherche en Finance Appliquée), University of Sherbrooke. Member of CPA-Canada Accounting and Governance Research Centre. Research Fellow, IPAG Business School, Paris. Research Associate at the Corporate Reporting Chair, ESG-University of Quebec.
Steve Satchell
Honorary Professor of Finance, University of Sidney and Trinity College (Cambridge University). Strong links with Inquire (Institute for Quantitative Investment Research). Member of the management committee of London Quant Group. Head of Research at GroupLadder Ltd (London). Academic advisor and consultant to JP Morgan Asset Management, Central Bank of Greece and UK Prime Minister’s Department. Editor and Member of the Editorial Board of several of the most important international journals of finance.
Yochanan Shachmurove
Professor of Business and Economics, City College, University of New York and University of Pennsylvania. He has taught at leading institutions, including Harvard University, Temple University, Indiana University, University of Indianapolis, University of Minnesota, National University of Kiev, Mohyla Academy (Ukraine), New Economic School (Russia), Bar Ilan Unviersity (Israel) and Tel Aviv University. Member of the Editorial Board of prestigious journals in economics and finance.
João Paulo Vieito
Professor of Finance and Dean, School of Business Studies at the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo, Portugal. Chairman of the World Finance Conference, the largest event that is organized annually at the international level in the banking, economic and financial fields. Member of the World Organizing Committee of the Financial Management Association International, and of the Midwest, East, and South Finance Association (USA). Member of the Editorial Board of prestigious international journals in finance.
Dorota Witkowska
Professor of Economics, Finance and Statistics, University of Lodz (Poland) and University of Johannesburg (South Africa). Visiting professor, Shandong University, Shanghai University and Shanghai Lixin University (China). President, Current Economic & Social Topics Internat. Research Assoc.-CESTIRA. Member, Executive Committee Internat. Atlantic Economic Society (USA). Researcher in Warsaw University (Poland), Princeton University and Pennsylvania University (USA), Georg August University (Germany).