Dr. Olushina Olawale Awe has been elected as a council member (representing Africa) for the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (ISBIS). This is the first time a Nigerian will be elected to such a position. The tenure of the new executives and council members is two years. According to David Banks, the out-going president of ISBIS, during his farewell report at the World Statistics Congress 2017, “I am delighted to report to you that the new president-elect will be Fabrizio Ruggeri (Italy), the new Vice-President for the Scientific Program is Irena Ograjenšek (Slovenia), the new president is Nalini Ravishanker (USA/India), Vice-President for Communications will be Román Viveros Aguilera (Canada), the new Vice-President for Membership and Outreach is Daniel Jeske (USA), and the new Vice-President for y-BIS is Tahir Ekin (USA/Turkey). Additionally, the incoming Council members are Olawale Awe (Nigeria), Yili Hong (USA/China), Julie Novak (USA), and Rahim Mahmoudvand (Iran).” These new officers were installed during the just concluded ISBIS general assembly in Marrakech, Morocco during the World Statistics Congress (WSC 2018).

Awe has been teaching Statistics at the Department of Mathematics, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria since 2010. He holds an MBA (Finance) from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife and M.Sc, Ph.D. (Statistics) from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He was a visiting scholar and statistical collaborator at the Department of Statistics, Virginia Tech, USA and BECCA Lab of the University of Pennsylvania, USA from September 2013 to September 2014. His research interests include time series analysis, Bayesian econometrics and computational statistics. He has attended and presented papers in several international conferences and served as facilitator in several capacity-building workshops in Nigeria. He was a training consultant for the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) on their Data Management Course, which had participants from Congo, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Ghana. He is a member of several professional organizations including Nigerian Statistical Association, International Biometric Society, International Statistical Institute (ISI), International Society for Bayesian Analysis, and the American Statistical Association. He is also a country co-ordinator (Nigeria) in the International Statistical Literacy Program (ISLP) of ISI, Netherlands. He created the first LISA 2020 laboratory in Africa in October, 2014.

ISBIS is an association of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) that is dedicated to the promotion of business and industrial statistics worldwide. This includes areas such as financial and health services among others. It promotes applications, research, and best current practices in business and industrial statistics, facilitates technology transfer, and fosters communications among members and practitioners worldwide through regular conferences and workshops.
ISBIS will hold its first regional capacity building workshop in Lagos, Nigeria in August 2018. Members of the public are advised to watch out for this great event.

Source: http://www.isbis-isi.org/executive.html

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