Marco Forti completed his Bachelor and Master studies in Economics at the University of Rome “La Sapienza,” in Italy, where he also received his Ph.D. in Statistics in 2022. He also worked in several public and private institutions and research centers as SviMez, Agenas (Italian Ministry of Health), CER, KPMG international, Deloitte, etc., leading theoretical and applied research in the fields of statistics, economics, policy evaluation, epidemiology, and data management.

Professor Forti's main research interests are in Functional Data Analysis, Dynamic Factor Models, clustering, and finite mixture models. In such areas, his work consists in covering every aspect, from the theoretical to the algorithmic/computational, up to any simulations and practical applications.

Professor Forti’s teaching activity have been led in several departments – both at bachelor or master level - among different universities (e.g. University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Campus biomedico and John Cabot university).

Areas of Interest

Dynamic factor models, Functional data analysis, Microeconomics, DSGE

Dr. Giacomo Santangelo is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics as well as the Director of the International Political Economy Program at Fordham University and a term professor at the Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University. 

He earned his Ph.D. and Master of Arts (M.A.) in Economics from Fordham University, as well as a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Economics from Seton Hall University. A frequent media contributor, Professor Santangelo has been seen on NBC, CBS, & FoxNews, as well as in USNews and World Report, Forbes, and Fortune. In early February, he was a guest on the Indian Parliamentary News program "Global Debate," discussing the recent trend in tech layoffs. In 2016, he gave a TEDx talk on the unifying theory of all Disney animated films and in 2020 published "Macroeconomics: Big Things Have Small Beginnings," a macroeconomics textbook geared toward the Global Business Honors class he teaches at the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham. 

Areas of Interest

Macroeconomic Analysis, trade, labor, development, Financial economics, Microeconomics, DSGE

Maros Ivanic is a lecturer at Boston University, GTAP Fellow, and Senior Agricultural Economist with experience in the national government (U.S. Government) and international government (International Finance Corporation and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the World Bank Group).

Areas of Interest

CGE, Macroeconomic Analysis, Agricultural Economics, Linear programming

Badri is the Founder and Director of Infinite Sum Modelling Inc. & Cancer Aid Society Inc. both located in Seattle (USA), co-founder of Policy Modeling Association for Inclusive Development in New Delhi (India). He works as a consultant at McKinsey and Company, Affiliate Faculty Member at the School of Environment and Forestry Sciences, University of Washington Seattle, Senior Fellow at the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE, Brussels), Non-Residential Fellow at the Center for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP, New Delhi), Consultant at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER, New Delhi), Advisory Board member at the United Nations ESCAP ARTNET and Consultant with UN, World Bank, ILO, WHO, FAO, Board of Directors Member at the British American Business Council (BABC).

Badri is awarded the GTAP Research fellow title for his outstanding contributions to the development and constant update of the GTAP database and software, extending it to PE-GE models, and also more recently to its application in understanding of the effect of rules of origin in trade agreements. He has a solid publication profile in the fields of Industrial Economics, Applied econometrics, and international trade. He has more than 70 reviewed articles and 5 Books, his Google Scholar Citations from all publications until 2020 are 3079; h-index: 15; i10-index: 18. Citations for his works appeared in outlets such as American Economic Review, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, The Economist, Nature, Economic, and Political Weekly, etc.

Senior economist at the Ministry of Higher Education in Colombia. Holds a master's degree in econometrics from LMU Munich (best university in Germany), Economic Researcher of the Corporation Center of Public Affairs -CIPJUS- in Colombia, Specialist in Projects of Development from the Escuela Superior de Administración Pública -ESAP- (Superior School of Public Administration), Executive Supervisor in the organization of Estudios y Evaluación de la Gestión Pública Colombiana (Studies and Evaluation of the Colombian Public Management).

Areas of Interest

Time Series Econometrics, Advanced Econometrics, Treatment models, Panel Data Econometrics, Economic Convergence, Income Inequality

Software

STATA, Eviews, R

He is among the world’s top 10 authors in the Economics category as compiled by IDEAS, and among France’s top 3 authors in the Economics category in France as compiled by IDEAS and among top-5 active researchers in developing countries declared by David Mckenzie (Chief Economists), World Bank.

Muhammad Shahbaz is a Professor of Economics at Center for Energy & Environmental Policy Research and School of Management & Economics both at Beijing Institute of Technology (China), Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Land Economy of Cambridge University (UK). He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the National College of Business Administration & Economics, Lahore, Pakistan. His research focuses on development economics, energy economics, environmental and tourism economics etc. He has widely published in peer-reviewed international journals.  Dr. Muhammad Shahbaz has published papers in Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Journal of Banking & Finance, Economics Modelling, Applied Economics etc. He is an editor of Environmental Science and Pollution Research, subject editor of Emerging Markets Review and Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money (both are Scopus Indexed Journals) and guest editor for Resources Policy, Journal of Environmental Management, Technological Forecasting and Social Change and Frontiers in Energy Research 

Sherif Hassan is the co-founder and Academic division director of M&S Research Hub since 2018. He has over 17 years of academic experience in the fields of economics and applied econometrics. He holds two Master's degrees in the fields of economics and political science and a Ph.D. degree from the Philipps University of Marburg. An alumnus of DAAD and YJAP programs. He is a research affiliate at the Global Labor Network (GLO), a research associate at the Economic Research Forum (ERF), a fellow at American Economic Association, and a member of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES), International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences (IISEC), Royal Economic Society and European Economic Association (EEA). He was a former researcher at the African Studies Center (Leiden), coordinator and trainer at the Ford Foundation's Pathways to Higher Education program, academic director of the Enactus-Egypt program, and coordinator for the "Excellence of Education" committee of the higher ministry of education. 

Areas of Interest

Panel Data Econometrics, Advanced Econometrics, Time Series Econometrics, Middle East, Development and Monetary Economics, Demography

Software

STATA, Eviews, SPSS, GAMS, GTAP, R

Chahir is a professor of Economics at the university of Orléans in France, Associate Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University. In this position, Chahir teaches and conducts research on trade policy and macroeconomics. He is also the Director of the French section at the faculty. Chahir works also for the Economic Research Forum (Cairo, Egypt) as a part-time Senior Economist and as a consultant for several international organization (the World Bank and the International Trade Center (UNCTAD-WTO, Geneva) and ESCWA).

He has published numerous studies in the International Trade Journal, the World Trade Review, Economic Modeling and Applied Economics.

Areas of Interest

Time Series Econometrics, Panel Data Econometrics, Trade, CGE Modeling, Gravity Models

Software

STATA, GAMS

Vaibhav Kumar is a post-doctoral senior researcher at Tennesse University and an experienced Research Associate at the US Department of Agriculture Forest Products Laboratory. With over seven years of expertise in Computer-Aided Process System Engineering (PSE), Supply Chain Optimization, and Economics my work stands at the intersection of operational research, data analytics, and sustainable development.

Areas of Interest

CGE, Impact Assessment, Life Cycle Analysis, Linear and nonlinear programming, Sensitivity Analysis

He currently works as a senior data scientist in Daimler AG (Mercedes Benz), where he develops applications and systems to automate processes. Part of his former experiences include working as a machine learning Engineer at STATWORX and lecturing graduate and undergraduate students advanced econometrics, programming and statistics classes at Marburg University. Lukas is a highly competent econometrician and programmer, his experiences are advanced in programming packages such as R, Python.

Areas of Interest

Advanced Econometrics, Machine Learning, Programming, Bayesian Econometrics

Software

STATA, R, Python, Eviews

Lecturer at the Finance and Banking as well as the Department of Economics of the Middle East at the Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany. Completed his PhD in the field of Asset Pricing and Islamic Finance in 2018. In 2013, he was awarded a DAAD Scholarship to complete his second Master’s degree in Economic Change in the Arab Region from the University of Marburg. His fields of research are Islamic finance and asset pricing in mixed market settings as well as the economics of the Middle East with a focus on Shadow Economy and Monetary Policy. He has several publications in journals such as the International Journal of Islamic Finance as well as a co-authored chapter in a recently published book on Islamic Banking and Financial Crisis.

Areas of Interest

Finance, Islamic Finance, Financial Modeling, Time Series Econometrics, Asset Pricing on Segmented Marketsrkets

Software

Matlab, STATA

Ron Mahabir is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computational and Data Sciences at George Mason University. His research focuses on the use of geospatial data science tools and techniques applied to different areas of urban and rural systems, in order to explore and understand the different components of these systems, and to provide solutions that will contribute towards smart, resilient and sustainable cities. More information about his research can be found at: http://www.digitalgeo.org

Areas of Interest

Earth Data and Image Analysis, Machine Learning/Data Mining, Time Series Analysis, Text Mining, Open Data

Economic Researcher and Program Officer with the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS’) Social Accelerator Program in Tokyo, Japan. William is also a Data Analysis consultant at the Center for Data Science (GRIPS). He is a Ph.D. candidate in Policy Analysis using econometrics tools to understand forecasting models and how the open economy operates. In October 2020, he was awarded a MEXT scholarship and completed his M.A in Public Economics in 2022. He has partnered and worked with institutions like PWC-Ltd-Ghana, the Institute of Statistical and Social Economic Research (ISSER), and the University of Ghana Statistics department. He is currently working on several articles ranging from multi-sector DSGE models to forecasting gold returns, green finance, poverty and urbanization among others.

Areas of Interest

Monetary Policy, Time Series Analysis, DSGE models, forecasting models, Applied Econometrics.

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