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Francis X. Diebold is J.M. Cohen Professor of Economics, Professor of Finance and Statistics, and Co-Director of the Financial Institutions Center at the University of Pennsylvania and its Wharton School, and Faculty Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Mass. Diebold works in econometrics, forecasting, finance and macroeconomics. He has published extensively and has served on the editorial boards of numerous journals, including Econometrica and Review of Economics and Statistics. He is an elected Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Statistical Association, and the recipient of Sloan, Guggenheim, and Humboldt awards. A prize-winning teacher and popular lecturer, Diebold has also held visiting appointments in Economics and Finance at Princeton University, the University of Chicago, Cambridge University, Johns Hopkins University, and New York University. From 1986-1989 he served as an economist under Paul Volcker and Alan Greenspan at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington DC. He received his B.S. from the Wharton School in 1981 and his Ph.D. in 1986, also from the University of Pennsylvania. He is married with three children and lives in suburban Philadelphia.

Longer, for broader audiences:

Francis X. Diebold is J.M. Cohen Professor of Economics, Professor of Finance and Statistics, and Co-Director of the Financial Institutions Center at the University of Pennsylvania and its Wharton School, and Faculty Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Mass. He is a leader in financial and macroeconomic modeling, forecasting and risk management, with extensive experience simultaneously in academic, corporate, and policy circles.

Diebold has published more than one hundred articles and ten books and edited volumes, including the leading text, Elements of Forecasting, now in its fourth edition, and the volume of collected macroeconomic works, Business Cycles: Durations, Dynamics, and Forecasting. He has received widespread recognition for his research, including election to advisory and editorial boards of numerous leading journals, election to Fellowship in the American Statistical Association and the Econometric Society, and Sloan, Guggenheim and Humboldt awards. Articles summarizing his work have appeared in leading popular press outlets, including Newsweek and The Economist.

Diebold is also active in policy and corporate affairs. He has served on numerous boards and is consulted regularly by financial firms, central banks, and policy organizations, worldwide. He is a founding member of the Oliver Wyman Institute, a cooperative undertaking between Oliver Wyman and the international academic community, whose mission is to facilitate and accelerate knowledge transfer between academia and the financial services industry. Diebold lectures actively, worldwide. He is active in executive education and has received several prizes for outstanding teaching. His ongoing annual lecture series include those at the Swiss Finance Institute (Geneva) and at the International Monetary Fund (Washington, DC). He has held visiting appointments in Economics and Finance at Princeton University, Cambridge University, the University of Chicago, the London School of Economics, Johns Hopkins University, and New York University.

Diebold received his B.S. from the Wharton School in 1981 and his Ph.D. in 1986, also from the University of Pennsylvania. Before returning to Penn in 1989, he worked as an economist under both Paul Volcker and Alan Greenspan at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington DC. He is married with three children and lives in suburban Philadelphia.