Spyros Makridakis (born 22 April 1941) is a professor of the University of Nicosia [http://www.unic.ac.cy UNIC] where he is the Director of the Institute for the Future (IFF) and an Emeritus Professor of Decision Sciences at INSEAD as well as the University of Piraeus and one of the world's leading experts on forecasting, with many journal articles and books on the subject. He is famous as the organizer of the Makridakis Competitions, known in the forecasting literature as the M-Competitions.
Provided by Wikipedia