Esfandiar (Essie) Maasoumi is the Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Economics at Emory University, Atlanta, GA. He is author and coauthor of more than 100 articles, reviews, and books, including special issues of Journal of Econometrics and Econometric Reviews. He has written theoretical and empirical papers in both economics and econometrics, and consults on law and economics issues.

Dr. Maasoumi is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, and a Fellow of the Journal of Econometrics. He is a member of the Econometric Society, the American Statistical Association, the American Economic Association, and the American Mathematical Society.

He received the B.Sc (1972), M.Sc (1973), and Ph.D (1977) degrees from the London School of Economics, UK.

He is the Editor of Econometric Reviews, and on the Board of NAFTA. Advisory Editor-2007, Journal of Econometric Theory and Applications.

He is ranked 37th in the world in The Econometricians’ Hall of Fame, (see . Baltagi , 1998, Econometric Theory, 14-4).