ECMFE Research Seminar with Professor Hashem Pesaran

How to attend this seminar

This seminar is free to attend with no need to register in advance.

We welcome you to join us on  Wednesday 16 October 2024 at 3pm our Colchester campus, room TBC.

If you are unable to attend in person, this seminar will be available to watch live online.

Speaker bio

Professor Hashem Pesaran

Dr. M. Hashem Pesaran is the John Elliot Distinguished Chair in Economics and Professor of Economics at USC Dornsife, and Director of the Center for Applied Financial Economics. He is also an Emeritus Professor of Economics at Cambridge University and a Lifetime Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. 

Dr. Pesaran is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Econometric Society and the Journal of Econometrics. He was awarded Honorary Doctorates by the University of Salford in 1993, the University of Goethe, Frankfurt in 2008, the University of Maastricht in 2013 and the University of Economics in Prague in 2016. In September 2013 he was named as Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate in Economics. More recently he was named by Thomson Reuters as one of the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds for 2014 and 2015. 

He has served as consultant to the United Nations, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Dr. Pesaran is the founding editor of the Journal of Applied Econometrics, and a founding Board Member of the International Association for Applied Econometrics. His work has been published around 250 articles in academic journals and edited volumes, and 19 books and edited volumes. He received the Royal Economic Society Prize (1992), the Best Paper Award of Econometric Reviews (2004-2005), Best Paper Award of the International Journal of Forecasting (2007), and the Econometric Theory Award (2008)