Louis Anthony (Tony) Cox

President, Cox Associates, LLC & Editor-in-Chief of Risk Analysis: An International Journal<

JTony Cox is President of Cox Associates (www.cox-associates.com), a Denver-based analytics company specializing in applied statistics and machine learning, causal artificial intelligence, public and occupational health risk analysis and epidemiology, and consumer behavior modeling. Since 1986, Cox Associates’ analysts and scientists have applied advanced analytics and statistical and mathematical modeling to measurably improve risk assessment and decision-making for public and private sector clients. In 2006, Cox Associates was inducted into the Edelman Academy of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), recognizing outstanding real-world achievements in the practice of operations research and the management sciences. In 2012, Dr. Cox was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) “For applications of operations research and risk analysis to significant national problems.” In 2019 he was elected a Fellow of INFORMS for “research, practice, and service contributions to homeland security, health and environmental risk analysis, telecommunications, and the modeling of causality.” He has served as a member of the National Academies' Board on Mathematical Sciences and their Applications (BMSA) (2012-2016) and as Chair of the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) for the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (2017-2021) – a controversial but crucial role dedicated to improving the use of sound science in regulation.

Dr. Cox holds a Ph.D. in Risk Analysis and an S.M. in Operations Research, both from MIT; an AB from Harvard University; and is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program. He is Associate Professor of Business Analytics at the University of Colorado, Denver, where he has also has served as Honorary Full Professor of Mathematics lecturing on applied statistics, data science, decision and risk analysis, biomathematics, health risk modeling, and causality; on the Faculties of the Center for Computational Mathematics and the Center for Computational Biology; and as Clinical Professor of Biostatistics and Informatics at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He has served as an expert in risk analysis on many National Academies, World Health Organization, EPA, USDA, and other agency projects, committees, and advisory boards.

Dr. Cox is Editor-in-Chief of Risk Analysis: An International Journal. He is Area Editor for Real World Applications for the Journal of Heuristics, and is on the Editorial Boards of Decision Analysis and the International Journal of Operations Research and Information Systems. He is a Fellow and an Edelman Laureate of INFORMS, a member of the American Statistical Association (ASA), and a lifetime Fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA).

Dr. Cox has taught many graduate and professional courses in health risk analysis and epidemiology, decision analysis, and advanced analytics. He has authored and co-authored over 250 journal articles and book chapters on these fields. His most recent books are Quantitative Risk Analysis of Air Pollution Health Effects (Springer 2021), Causal Analytics for Applied Risk Analysis (Springer, 2018), Breakthroughs in Decision Science and Risk Analysis (Wiley, 2015), Improving Risk Analysis (Springer, 2013), and the Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science (Wiley, 2011), which Dr. Cox co-edited. He has over a dozen U.S. patents on applications of artificial intelligence, signal processing, statistics and operations research. His current research interests include computational statistical methods for causal inference in public and occupational health risk analysis, causal AI/ML for decision optimization under uncertainty, and learning in uncertain and changing environments.

Personal website: https://www.nae.edu/56125/Dr-Louis-Anthony-Tony-Cox-Jr

Roger Guesnerie

Emeritus Professor of Economic Theory and Social Organization of the Collège de France & Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Paris School of Economics

Professor Guesnerie is Emeritus Professor of Economic Theory and Social Organization of the Collège de France, a Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and a Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Paris School of Economics.

Professor Guesnerie has published above one hundred academic articles in economics. His fields of interest include general equilibrium, public economics, the theory of incentives and mechanism design, and more recently the assessment of expectations formation. He has also written a dozen of books, among which a number of public policy reports - first on cost-benefit analysis and more recently on the questions of competition and climate policies –and also several large audience books on market and climate issues.

Personal website: https://www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/en/guesnerie-roger/

Lutz Kilian

Senior Economic Policy Adviser, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, United States

Dr. Lutz Kilian will join the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas as a Senior Economic Policy Adviser in the summer of 2019. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1996 and his M.A. in Development Banking from The American University in 1988. He joined the faculty at Michigan in 1996, where he was tenured in 2002 and promoted to Professor of Economics in 2008. Prior to his Ph.D., he worked for the research department of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, DC. During 2001-03 he served as the research adviser to the European Central Bank in Frankfurt a.M., Germany. Dr. Kilian has been a research visitor at the Federal Reserve Board, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. He has also been a consultant for the International Monetary Fund, the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Trade Organization, the European Central Bank, the Bank of Canada, the European Parliament, and the U.S. Energy Information Administration, among others. He is a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Analysis, the Center for Financial Studies, the CESifo, and the Euro Area Business Cycle Network and an officer of the Central Bank Research Association (CEBRA). He has served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, the Journal of Development Economics , and the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.

Dr. Kilian has published over 90 articles. His work has appeared in leading general interest and field journals in economics and statistics. His research interests include time series econometrics, empirical macroeconomics, and energy economics. Much of his recent research is concerned with the sources of fluctuations in the price of oil, with the transmission of oil price shocks to the U.S. economy, with the role of speculation in global oil markets, with measuring oil price expectations in financial markets, and with oil price forecasting. He has also worked on quantifying the impact of the U.S. shale oil revolution and the effect of releases of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, on estimating the price elasticity of gasoline demand, on measuring the global business cycle in commodity markets, and on the link between oil and food prices, and on the joint determination of oil prices, exchange rates and interest rates, for example. Dr. Kilian's work in empirical macroeconomics and in international finance includes topics such as the stagflation of the 1970s, the specification of monetary policy rules, household inflation expectations, the quantification of deflation risks, the role of sticky prices in business cycle models, the transmission of regional shocks to housing markets, and tests of exchange rate models.

Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/lkilian2019/

Till Requate

Chair of Innovation, Competition Policy and New Institutional Economics, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany

Professor Till Requate studied Mathematics, Physics, Philosophy and Sports Science, and graduated in Mathematics and Philosophy at Bielefeld University, Germany, in 1985. He received a Ph.D. in Economics in 1989 with a thesis on game theory and industrial organisation. He received his Habilitation in 1994. Prof. Requate was assistant professor at the University of Bielefeld from 1990 to 1995 held a position as associate professor at the University of Oldenburg from 1995 to 1996, and was appointed full professor for Environmental Economics and as director of the Interdisciplinary Institute of Environmental Economics at the University of Heidelberg in 1996. Since 2002 Prof. Requate is a professor for innovation economics, competition policy, and new institutional economics at Kiel University. Environmental regulation and impacts on competition but also experimental economics are major fields of interest.

Prof. Requate was awarded a von-Bennigsen-Foerder-Preis in 1990 and the Eric-Kempe prize awarded by the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics and the University of Umea in 2004.

As a visiting scholar Prof. Requate was a guest at the University of California at San Diego (1989), California Institute of Technology (1992), University of Boulder, Colorado, (1993), University of Arizona at Tucson (2001), University of Florida at Orlando (2004), California Polytechnical State University at San Luis Obispo (2009), North Carolina State University at Raleigh (2012), University of Science at Penang, Malaysia (2008, 2009, 2012).

Moreover, Prof. Requate was former Managing Editor of Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and Associate Editor of the European Economic Review. He is on the editorial board of Resource and Energy Economics, Economics and Environmental Economics, and Policy Studies. He organized several national and international scientific conferences (such as program chair of German economic Meeting, Magdeburg 2009, local organizer of German economic Meeting, Kiel 2010, program co-chair of EAERE, Rome 2011).

He also worked as a consultant for governments and NGOs, notably the World Bank, InWent (organizing the 4th and the 7th ASEAN capacity building workshop at Langkawi, Malaysia 2009 and Brunei 2010), the German Federal Ministry of Research and Science (BMBF), the Danish Ministry for Agriculture and Fishery, and for OECD, Paris.

Personal website: https://www.iwni.bwl.uni-kiel.de/en/team/prof-dr-till-requate