Francisco Blasques is a Professor of Econometrics and Data Science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is also the TI Doctoral Director of the School of Business and Economics, and the Director of Research and Education of the Institute of Time-Series Econometrics and Forecasting (ITSEF). Additionally, Francisco is a fellow of the Tinbergen Institute, an Expert Forecaster for the World Economic Survey, and an Editor of the journal Open Economics.

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Prof Blasques is also a director at Metyis, and an experienced consultant specialised in projects demanding advanced data science solutions. Additionally, Francisco is an author of books on data science.