Thierry Warin

Professor, Data Science for International Business, HEC Montréal, Université de Montréal, Canada.

Microeconomics of Competitiveness (MOC) Network Faculty Affiliate (ISC, Harvard Business School, 2016-), Thierry Warin is Professor of Data Science for International Business at HEC Montreal and Principal Investigator of the Open Data Lab at CIRANO (Canada). Thierry is the current president of the International Trade and Finance Association and also Researcher at CERIUM-CEUE (University of Montreal). Former Visiting Scholar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (Harvard University, 2015-2017), Thierry was Associate Professor at Polytechnique Montreal (Director of the International Projects Program, 2010-2013), Associate Professor at Middlebury College (Director of the International Studies and IPE program) and Academic Director at SIE-Sun Yat Sen University in Guangzhou (China). His current research interests are about using Data Science approaches to better inform decision making.

An alumnus of the Salzburg Global Seminar, Thierry held positions in several academic institutions (Middlebury College USA, Polytechnique Montreal, Sun Yat Sen University Guangzhou, Essec Business School Paris, HEC Paris, La Sorbonne, UIBE Beijing). His research is mainly on international economics and finance topics, with a particular focus on the European economic integration. His methodology of choice is Data Science, with a particular focus on high-power computing-based Econometrics and Ensemble methods.

An alumnus of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University, Thierry completed my PhD in Monetary Economics and Finance at Essec Business School in Paris.