FERNANDEZ DURAN, JUAN JOSE

Juan José Fernández-Durán holds a BSc in Actuarial Science from ITAM, a PhD in Statistics and Operational Research from the University of Essex and completed the Postdoctoral Bridge to Business (Marketing) in the Freeman School of Business of the University of Tulane.

He has been appointed to the National Research System of Mexico (Level I) and has published articles in journals such as Biometrics, Journal of Applied Statistics, Political Geography, Electronic Journal of Statistics, Trimestre Económico, Statistical Methods in Medical Research, Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology, Statistical Papers, Journal of Statistical Software, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Business Research and Journal of Classification, among others. He is one of the developers of the package CircNNTSR of the statistical software R for the analysis of circular data. He has supervised more than 150 BSc dissertations in the BSc programs in Actuarial Science and Applied Mathematics.

His research interests include Spatial Statistics, Machine Learning, Statistical Applications in Actuarial Science, Finance and Marketing, Panel Data Analysis and Simulation. He has taught courses in Probability, Stochastic Processes, Mathematical Statistics, Spatial Statistics, Simulation, Regression Analysis, Econometrics, Survey Sampling, Time Series Analysis, Marketing Research and Empirical Methods in Finance.

He worked in AC Nielsen Mexico in the area of marketing research (1993-94) and from 1998 to date he is a Full-Time Professor at ITAM. From august 2004 to august 2010 he was Head of Department of Statistics of ITAM and Head of the Department of Business Administration from 2016 to 2018 and received the ITAM Alumni Prize for Career Achievements in the Academic Sector in 2013.

He has worked as consultant in projects for PROCESAR, IMSS, Fresnillo PLC, JUMEX, Secretaría de Economía, Industria Mexicana de Conservas y Alimentos y Pegaso PCS.

He is Associate of the Society of Actuaries (ASA-20015), Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and member of the American Marketing Association. From 2001 to 2005 he was member of the board of directors of the Mexican Statistical Association (Asociación Mexicana de Estadística, AME). From august 2008 to October 2014 he was the president of the Statistics Section of the Mexican Actuarial Board (Colegio Nacional de Actuarios, CONAC).