Poncela Blanco, Mª del Pilar

Pilar Poncela is Professor of Econometrics and director of the master’s program in Quantitative Economic Analysis at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain. She is Director of the International Institute of Forecasters (https://forecasters.org/about/board-of-directors/) where she organizes the Forecasting Summer School. She has an Electrical Engineering Degree from Universidad de Valladolid, Spain, and received her PhD in Economics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Her research interests are focused on forecasting, mainly macro and energy forecasting and the combination of forecasts, although dynamic factor models and applied macroeconomics are also in her research agenda. She has collaborated with European institutions and has held positions at the Bank of Spain (fellowship) and the European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy (senior researcher). She has published her research in journals such as International Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Applied Energy and Advances in Data Analysis and Classification, among others. She is a Fellow of the UC3M-Santander Big Data Institute. She was visiting scholar at The University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business. She has also enjoyed several research sojourns at ITAM (México), National University of Colombia and Cass Business School (UK), among others. Her research has been funded by the Spanish Ministries of Education, Science and Technology, Economy and Competitiveness and the Madrid Research Council. She has supervised several PhD students working on forecasting. She has been consultant for Lease Plan, BBVA, Crédito & Caución Insurance Company and the National Traffic.