award
The Jan Tinbergen Award
The ISI Jan Tinbergen Award is named after the famous Dutch econometrician and Nobel Prize winner, and are sponsored by the Dutch ‘Stichting Internationaal Statistisch Studiefonds.’ (International Statistical Study Fund Foundation). The aim of the Foundation is to offer assistance to developing countries in the statistical domain. The intention of the ISI Jan Tinbergen award is to meet the Foundation’s aim and two of the fundamental objectives of the ISI, namely defining and instituting constructive roles in supporting the development of young statisticians and in building statistical capacity in developing countries.
Previous winners of the awards
Tarikul Islam Wins the 2025 Jan Tinbergen Award
The International Statistical Institute is pleased to announce the winner of the 2025 Jan Tinbergen Award: Tarikul Islam. This prestigious award recognises outstanding contributions by young statisticians and offers them the opportunity to present their work at the biennial ISI World Statistics Congress.
2023 Winner Division A: General – Renata Rojas Guerra
The winner in Division A: General is Ms Renata Rojas Guerra from Brazil for her paper ‘The Kumaraswamy generalized autoregressive score model for the quantiles of double-bounded hydro-environmental time series’.
2023 Winner Division B: Statistical Systems - Ana Gabriela Faria da Silva
The winner in Division B: Statistical Systems is Ana Gabriela Faria da Silva from Brazil for her paper ‘Exploring the Use of Web Pages Texts, in Brazilian Portuguese, for Classifying Main Economic Activity of Companies’
2021: Division A - 1st Prize, Jie Li
Paper: Prediction Interval of Air Pollutants Concentration by Nonparametric Regression Analysis
2021: Division A - 1st Prize, Qirui Hu
Paper: Prediction Interval of Air Pollutants Concentration by Nonparametric Regression Analysis
2021: Division B - 1st Prize, Mozhgan Taavoni
2019: Division A - 1st Prize, Jetrei Benito
Paper: Modeling the Financial Market Indicators with Semiparametric Volatility Model with Varying Frequency
2019: Division B - 1st Prize, Edvira Malliedje Fokam
Paper: Intra household resource allocation and gender relation in Côte d’Ivoire : a way for facing non inclusive growth situation
Winner of the 2017 ISI Jan Tinbergen Awards
2017: 1st Prize, Marcelo Bourguignon Pereira
Paper: Modelling time series of counts with deflation or inflation of zeros
Brazil
Winner of the 2017 ISI Jan Tinbergen Awards
2017: 2nd Prize, Christian Eduardo Galarza Morales
Paper: Robust logistic quantile regression models using skewed heavy-tailed distributions
Brazil
Winner of the 2015 ISI Jan Tinbergen Awards
2015: 1st Prize, Ajmery Jaman
Paper: A Bias-Corrected Approach to Rotnitzky-Jewell Criteria for Appropriate Correlation Structure Selection in Generalized Estimating Equations
Bangladesh
Winner of the 2015 ISI Jan Tinbergen Awards
2015: 2nd Prize, Katiane Silva Conceição
Paper: Zero-Modifed Models for Count Data
Brazil
Winner of the 2015 ISI Jan Tinbergen Awards
2015: 2nd Prize, Arun Kumar Kuchibhotla
Paper: Testing in Additive and Projection Pursuit Models
India
Winner of the 2013 ISI Jan Tinbergen Awards
2013: 1st Prize, Abhik Ghosh
India
Winner of the 2013 ISI Jan Tinbergen Awards
2013: 2nd Prize, Lu Han
China
Winner of the 2013 ISI Jan Tinbergen Awards
2013: 3rd Prize, Iris Ivy Gauran
Philippines
Winner of the 2013 ISI Jan Tinbergen Awards
2013: 3rd Prize, Maria Sofia Criselda A. Poblador
Philippines