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Paul Kattuman
Born
Kerala, India
OccupationAcademic
Academic background
EducationProfessor
Alma materCalicut University, Cambridge University & Trinity College, Cambridge (MPhil, PhD)
Doctoral advisorProf David Newbery
Academic work
DisciplineEconomist
Sub-disciplineEconometrics
InstitutionsCambridge University

Paul A. Kattuman is a Professor of Economics at the Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow and Director of Studies in Management Studies at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.[1][2]

Education

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Kattuman completed his schooling at Sainik School in Kerala, India, and earned his BA and MA in Economics from the University of Calicut. He started his career as an economist in the Indian Economic Service, working briefly at the Ministry of Finance, Government of India.[3] He obtained his M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from the University of Cambridge (Trinity College and the Faculty of Economics), specializing in the theory and empirics of firm growth under the supervision of Professor David Newbery.[3]

Career

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He began his academic career as a lecturer in the Department of Economics at Durham University, before returning to Cambridge as a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Applied Economics, and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College.[4]

Through his career Kattuman has held several visiting positions, including at Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Department of Statistics, and the Harvard Data Science Initiative.[5] He has also served as a visiting professor at Université Paris-Est Créteil and Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Kattuman held advisory roles, providing forecasts and analysis every week to Public Health England, the NHS in the East of England, and the governments of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Punjab in India.[6][7][8]

Selected publications

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Kattuman’s research has been published in a range of leading academic journals, including interdisciplinary journals such as Harvard Data Science Review and the Journal of the Royal Society Interface,[9][10] recently. A notable contribution, developed in collaboration with Andrew Harvey, is the Harvey-Kattuman model for epidemic forecasting.[11][12]

References

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  1. ^ "Professor Paul Kattuman | Corpus Christi College University of Cambridge". www.corpus.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
  2. ^ "Paul Kattuman". Cambridge Judge Business School. Retrieved 2024-09-05.
  3. ^ a b "Paul Kattuman". Cambridge Judge Business School. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
  4. ^ "Dr Paul Kattuman - Networks of evidence and expertise for public policy". www.csap.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
  5. ^ "Professor Paul Kattuman | Corpus Christi College University of Cambridge". www.corpus.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
  6. ^ "Current wave could bring about end of pandemic: Prof Paul Kattuman, Cambridge". The Week. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
  7. ^ "No reason to believe any state will escape Omicron wave: Cambridge professor who worked on India Covid-19 tracker". The Indian Express. 2022-01-01. Retrieved 2024-09-05.
  8. ^ "Paul Kattuman". Cambridge Judge Business School. Retrieved 2024-09-05.
  9. ^ Harvey, Andrew; Kattuman, Paul (2020-05-14). "Time Series Models Based on Growth Curves With Applications to Forecasting Coronavirus". Harvard Data Science Review (Special Issue 1). doi:10.1162/99608f92.828f40de. ISSN 2644-2353.
  10. ^ "Study suggests R rate for tracking pandemic should be dropped in favour of 'nowcasts' | University of Cambridge". www.cam.ac.uk. 2021-09-29. Retrieved 2024-09-05.
  11. ^ Vysniauskiene, Lina (2023-01-16). "Impactful research honoured by FT - News & insight". Cambridge Judge Business School. Retrieved 2024-09-05.
  12. ^ Harvey, Andrew; Kattuman, Paul (2020-05-14). "Time Series Models Based on Growth Curves With Applications to Forecasting Coronavirus". Harvard Data Science Review (Special Issue 1). doi:10.1162/99608f92.828f40de. ISSN 2644-2353.
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