Allan Timmermann holds a Atkinson/Epstein Chair in Management Leadership at the Rady School of Management and is also a professor in economics at UC San Diego's department of economics since 1994. He obtained his PhD from University of Cambridge after initial economics training at the University of Copenhagen. Timmermann is a very productive scholar in finance and applied econometrics. He serves as an associate editor on leading journals in finance, economics and forecasting including Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Financial Econometrics, and Journal of Forecasting. He has published in journals such as Journal of American Statistical Association, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Finance, and Journal of Econometrics.