I seguenti studiosi sono affiliati al Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistica, e qui svolgono la loro attività di ricerca per tutto o parte dell'anno accademico.

Sydney Afriat,
Sydney Afriat graduated in mathematics from Pembroke College, Cambridge, with a period during World War II in the Aerodynamics Division, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, after which he did a D.Phil. at Queen’s College, Oxford. Work with Richard Stone in the Department of Applied Economics, Cambridge, 1953-56, initiated his activity in economics. After 1956-58 as Lecturer and Research Fellow in Mathematics in Jerusalem, years 1958-62 were in Economics in Princeton. He was then in Economics and Mathematics at Rice University, Houston, and Visiting Fellow at Yale. Beside periods at Purdue, UNC- Chapel Hill, Waterloo and Ottawa, the later time includes intervals as Member of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Fellowship, Academic Visitor, London School of Economics, Visiting Fellow, Macquarie University, NSW, Visiting Professor, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka, and Jean Monnet Fellow, European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole/Firenze. At Bilkent University, Ankara, 1991-98, before becoming associated with the University of Siena. Fellow of the Econometric Society, and Cambridge Philosophical Society, and author of books and articles to do with economics and mathematics, beside scattered other items.

Herbert Gintis è Professore Emerito dell'Università del Massachusetts ad Amherst e Professore alla Central European University. Si occupa di teoria dei giochi evolutivi, e studia come l'interazione tra preferenze egoistiche e altruistiche determina conflitto e cooperazione. I suoi libri più recenti sono The Bounds of Reason (Princeton University Press 2009), Game Theory Evolving (Princeton, 2nd ed. 2009), e A Cooperative Species (con Samuel Bowles).

Claudio Scala

Vijay Verma - Professore a Contratto - Tel.0577/232740; email: verma@unisi.it
Vijay VERMA of University of Siena, Italy, has wide experience in survey design and analysis internationally, including on European social surveys.
He is a graduate of Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur, India, obtaining MSc from London School of Economics, and Ph.D. from University of Cambridge (1970).
Verma began his career as a demographer and statistician at the World Fertility Survey in London (1973-80). He has been a Technical Adviser at United Nations Statistical Office in New York (1980-84), Director of Research Centre of International Statistical Institute in The Hague (1984-86), Research Professor at University of Essex (1995-99), Director for International Social Research at ORC International, London (1999-2002), and an independent statistical consultant to international organisations. On behalf of the United Nations, International Labour Office and other international agencies, Verma has provided training and technical assistance in nearly 50 developing and transition countries worldwide, and has been a consultant to Eurostat for twenty years.
His research and publication have covered diverse areas of statistical methodology, applications and analysis, with focus on sampling and survey design, and the methodology of household panels. Apart from numerous reports and conferences presentations, Verma has published in reputed international journals including Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, International Statistical Review, Journal of Official Statistics, Survey Methodology, and Statistics in Transition. He is an Associate Editor for Survey Methodology and Statistics in Transition. Verma has authored handbooks on sampling manual on child labour surveys (International Labour Organisation), surveys of the economically active population, employment, unemployment and under-employment (ILO), sampling methods (Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific), computation and analysis of sampling errors (United Nations), harmonisation of family budget surveys (Eurostat), several methodological manuals on income statistics and on sampling for EU-SILC (Statistics on Income and Living Conditions, Eurostat), and 2nd European Social Report on Income Poverty and Social Exclusion (European Commission).
Languages (full proficiency) English, Hindi, Punjabi.
Born: 31 July 1946, Khanna, Punjab, India.