Biography

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So far, most of my career has been spent in the U.S., and Canada, I feel pretty fortunate to have had a chance to hold positions in several organizations across the world (China, France, U.S., Canada, Haïti). I also feel very lucky to have had a chance to be part of international institutions that have helped me develop (Salzburg Global Seminar, Harvard, ZBW-Leibniz to name a few) and to do field research in Japan, Israel, South Africa, China, Brazil, etc. Learning, growing and meeting different cultures in this transformative time is what I really like.

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Thierry Warin is Professor of Data Science for Global Transformations at HEC Montreal and Principal Investigator at CIRANO (Canada). He is Fellow at the Digital, Data and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard Business School (2023-). Thierry is a past 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), Microeconomics of Competitiveness (MOC) Network Faculty Affiliate (ISC, Harvard Business School, 2016-2023), 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 global transformations and challenges. His methodology of choice is Data Science, with a particular focus on high-power computing-based machine learning techniques and Bayesian statistics.

An alumnus of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University, Thierry is a graduate of the Harvard Business Analytics Program at Harvard University and he completed his PhD in Financial Economics at Essec Business School in Paris.

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