Spyros Makridakis

Spyros Makridakis is a Professor at the University of Nicosia, where is a director of its Institute For the Future (IFF) and the founder of the Makridakis Open Forecasting Center (MOFC). He is also an Emeritus Professor at INSEAD he joined in 1970. He has authored, or co-authored, twenty-seven books and special issues and more than 360 articles. His book Forecasting Methods for Management, 5th ed. (Wiley) has been translated in twelve languages and sold more than 120,000 copies while his book Forecasting: Methods and Applications, 3rded. (Wiley) has received more than 7,300 citations. Professor Makridakis was the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Forecasting and the International Journal of Forecasting and the co-founder of the International Institute of Forecasters (IIF). He is also the organizer of the renowned M (Makridakis) competitions that for the last 40 years have fundamentally influenced the theory and practice of forecasting. His publications can be found in his Google scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hPpgXPMAAAAJ&hl=en. His 2024 global ranking in the Stanford/Elsevier citation data base of top scientists is 3,900.

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