Montserrat Guillén i Estany (born 25 January 1964) is a Spanish statistician and economist, whose research interests include

actuarial science Actuarial science is the discipline that applies mathematics, mathematical and statistics, statistical methods to Risk assessment, assess risk in insurance, pension, finance, investment and other industries and professions. Actuary, Actuaries a ...

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, and

kernel density estimation In statistics, kernel density estimation (KDE) is the application of kernel smoothing for probability density estimation, i.e., a non-parametric method to estimate the probability density function of a random variable based on '' kernels'' as ...

. She is a professor and director of the Riskcenter in the department of

econometrics Econometrics is an application of statistical methods to economic data in order to give empirical content to economic relationships. M. Hashem Pesaran (1987). "Econometrics", '' The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics'', v. 2, p. 8 p. 8 ...

at the

University of Barcelona The University of Barcelona (official name in ; UB), formerly also known as Central University of Barcelona (), is a public research university located in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was established in 1450. With 76,000 students, ...

Education and career

Guillén earned a master's degree in mathematics and mathematical statistics at the University of Barcelona in 1987, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Barcelona in 1992. She also has a master's degree in social science data analysis from the

University of Essex The University of Essex is a public university, public research university in Essex, England. Established by royal charter in 1965, it is one of the original plate glass university, plate glass universities. The university comprises three camp ...

(1993) and another master's degree in risk management and insurance from the

National University of Distance Education The National Distance Education University (, UNED) is a distance learning and research university founded in 1972 and is the only university run by the government of Spain. The headquarters is located in Madrid, with campuses in all Spanish aut ...

(2006). She has held faculty positions at the University of Barcelona since 1993, and became full professor in 2001. In 2012 and 2019 she was named a distinguished professor by the

Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies ICREA, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, is a foundation jointly promoted by the Catalan Government through its Department of Innovation, Universities and Enterprise, and the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation (FCRI ...

Books

Guillén is the co-author of books including: *''Risk Quantification and Allocation Methods for Practitioners'' (with Belles-Sampera and Santolino, University of Chicago Press, 2017) *''Quantitative Operational Risk Models'' (with Bolancé, Gustafsson, and Nielsen, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2012)

Academic societies

Guillén is a member of the and the , both based in Barcelona. She also served as president of the European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists in 2012.

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