1. Professor Christine Thomas-Agnan, Toulouse School of Economics, University of Toulouse Capitole, Toulouse, France

Professor Christine Thomas-Agnan obtained her PhD in mathematics at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1987. Since 1994, she has been a professor in mathematics at “university Toulouse 1 Capitole” and she teaches in Toulouse School of Economics. Her research interests are: Spatial econometrics, Spatial point processes, Compositional data analysis, Market share regression models, Political economics statistical models, Non and semi parametric inference, Conditional quantiles and expectiles, efficiency measures and Applications to statistics and probability of reproducing kernels Hilbert space theory. She has supervised many PhD students. 

She published 6 books and around 50 articles in high-impact journals.

Website: https://www.tse-fr.eu/people/christine-thomas-agnan 

2. Prof. Thanh Mai Pham Ngoc, University Sorbonne Paris Nord, France

Pham Ngoc Thanh Mai is currently Professor at Laboratoire Analyse, Géométrie et Applications (LAGA) of University Sorbonne Paris Nord. She obtained a PhD in Statistics in 2009 from University Pierre et Marie Curie and was previously Assistant Professor at Laboratoire de Mathématiques d'Orsay. Her research interests are nonparametric inference, inverse problems, directional statistics.