EMS Distinguished Lecture
EMS Distinguished Lecture
The annual EMS Distinguished Lecture, established in 2022, celebrates theEconomics, Mathematics, and Statistics (EMS) degree program jointly managed bythe School of Economics and the School of Mathematics and Statistics. Held in theSpring term, this lecture series highlights outstanding research in economics,mathematics, and statistics while fostering stronger links between the two Schools.Past speakers have included internationally renowned researchers of the highestdistinction.
Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter recently retired as Professor of Applied Statistics and Econometrics at Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria). Her research focuses on Bayesian modeling and Markov chain Monte Carlo inference for a broad range of statistical models, including finite mixtures, state space models and sparse factor analysis. She is particularly interested in applications of Bayesian inference in economics, finance, and business. She was the President of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) and was recently appointed Co-Editor of the Journal of Applied Econometrics. Her 2006 monograph Finite Mixture and Markov Switching Models was awarded the Morris-DeGroot Price by ISBA. She was elected Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2014 and ISBA Fellow in 2018. In 2024, she was awarded the Zellner Medal by ISBA.
Richard Blundell holds the David Ricardo Chair of Political Economy at University College London. His research focuses on micro-econometrics, consumer behavior, savings, labor, taxation, public finance, innovation, and inequality. He was Research Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Founder and Director of the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy. In 2000 he received the Econometric Society Frisch Prize Medal for his paper 'Estimating Labour Supply Responses using Tax Reforms'. He has received numerous prizes among which the Yrjö Jahnsson Prize (1995), Leverhulme Personal Professorship (1998), the Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize (2008), the CES-Ifo Prize (2010), the Sandmo Prize (2011), the IZA Prize in Labor Economics (2012), the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Prize in Economics (2015), the Nemmers Prize in Economics (2016) and the Mincer Prize in Labor Economics (2020). He was awarded a Knighthood in 2014 for his services to Economics and Social Sciences.
Adrian E. Raftery is Boeing International Professor of Statistics and Sociology and Adjunct Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington.
His research covers Bayesian model selection and averaging, model-based clustering, inference for simulation models, and statistical methods for sociology, demography, and environmental and health sciences. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of multiple institutions, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Statistical Association. His awards include the Clifford C. Clogg Award, Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award, Jerome Sacks Award, and Parzen Prize for Statistical Innovation.
His research covers Bayesian model selection and averaging, model-based clustering, inference for simulation models, and statistical methods for sociology, demography, and environmental and health sciences. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of multiple institutions, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Statistical Association. His awards include the Clifford C. Clogg Award, Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award, Jerome Sacks Award, and Parzen Prize for Statistical Innovation.
Ariel Rubinstein is a Professor of Economics in School of Economics at Tel Aviv University, and a Professor of Economics in New York University. His research focuses on economic theory, bounded rationality, game theory, experimental economics and choice. He has received multiple awards and was elected as a fellow to several societies as indicated on his website. To cite a few, he was elected a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (1995), a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1994) and the American Economic Association (1995). In 1985 he was elected a fellow of the Econometric Society and served as its president in 2004. He was elected as an Economic Theory Fellow in 2011, and a Fellow of Game Theory Society in 2017. He has received the Bruno Prize (2000), the Israel prize for economics (2002), the Nemmers Prize in Economics (2004), the EMET prize (2006), and the Rothschild Prize (2010).