Gloria Gonzalez-Rivera is Professor of Economics at the University of California Riverside. She
is Associate Dean for the Social Sciences within the College of Humanities, Arts and Social
Sciences at UC-Riverside. She served as the Chair of the Economics Department (2003-2008) and
she was elected President of the Board of the International Institute of Forecasters (2016-2020). Professor
Gonzalez-Rivera received her Ph.D. from the University of California San Diego where she wrote
her dissertation under the supervision of 2003 Nobel Laureate Professor Robert F. Engle. Her
research focuses on the development of econometric and forecasting methodology with applications
in financial markets, volatility forecasting, risk management, and agricultural markets. Her
research has been published in top venues such as Journal of
Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic
Statistics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, International
Journal of Forecasting, and the Handbook of Empirical Economics and
Finance, among others. She has also written a textbook in
forecasting, Forecasting for Economics and Business, published by Routledge/Taylor
and Francis Group, which has received great reviews.
Professor Gonzalez-Rivera is a Fulbright Scholar, and she was awarded the UC-Riverside University
Scholar distinction (2007-2011) for her research and teaching contributions as well as several
teaching awards at UC-San Diego. In 2015, she was awarded an honorific Chair of Excellence by
the Universidad Carlos III/Banco de Santander, Madrid (Spain). She is Associate Editor for
the International Journal of Forecasting, The American Statistician and a
guest co-editor for Advances in Econometrics. Her research has been funded by
the National Science Foundation, the California Native Indian Gaming
Association, the International Institute of Forecasters/SAS,
the University of California ANR, and the A.P. Giannini
Foundation. She is also a member of the Scientific, Technical, and
Modelling Peer Review Advisory Group to the South Coast Air Quality Management
District in Southern. California. She has been a consultant for the hedge fund industry, and the
Government-sponsored Enterprise (Freddie Mac) in topics such as mortgage securitization,
subordinated debt, and risk management. She is an active referee and reviewer for many economic,
business, and statistics journals and for national and international agencies such as US NSF,
the European Research Council, the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and
the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.
