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Spyros Makridakis
American futorologist
Spyros Makridakis (born 22 April 1941) is a professor at the University of Nicosia where he is the Director of the Institute for the Future (IFF) and an Emeritus Professor of Decision Sciences at INSEAD as well as the University of Piraeus and one of the world's leading experts on forecasting, with many journal articles and books on the subject.[1][2] He is famous as the organizer of the Makridakis Competitions, known in the forecasting literature as the M-Competitions.[3][4][5][6]
Biography
Makridakis was part of the Greek Sailing Team in the 1960 Olympic Games[7] and studied at the Graduate School of Industrial Studies in Piraeus (University of Piraeus, present name).
After that, he joined New York University where he obtained a Ph.D. in 1969.[1] He has held a number of teaching and research positions including positions as research fellow at IIM Berlin