Roger Koenker

Roger William Koenker (born 1947) is a William B. McKinley Professor of Economics (since 1997) and Professor of Statistics (1992) at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He graduated from Grinnell College in 1969 and obtained his PhD in Economics from University of Michigan in 1974.

He has published extensively in the fields of econometrics and statistics and is best known for his seminal work on quantile regression, which has emerged as a powerful regression analysis tool across many disciplines.

 

He is an Associate Editor of Econometric Theory and has previously served on the editorial boards of Econometrica and Journal of American Statistical Association. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Fellow of Econometric Society. In 2010 he received the Emanuel and Carol Parzen Prize for Statistical Innovation.