Badi H. Baltagi is a Distinguished Professor of Economics and Senior Research Associate at the Center for Policy Research. He was George Summey, Jr. Professor of Liberal Arts, at Texas A&M University, 1993-2005. Professor Baltagi was also visiting professor at the University of Arizona and the University of California, San Diego, and part-time chair at the University of Leicester, United Kingdom. He is the author of several books including: Econometric Analysis of Panel Data, 5th edition (2013, Wiley); Econometrics, 5th edition (2011, Springer), and editor of A Companion to Theoretical Econometrics(2001, Blackwell);  Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Panel Data, Volumes I and II (2002, Edward Elgar); Nonstationary Panels, Panel Cointegration, and Dynamic Panels (2000, Elsevier); Spatial Econometrics: Methods and Applications (2009, Physica-Verlag);Panel Data Econometrics:Critical Concepts in Economics, Four Volumes, (2015, Routledge,Taylor & Francis Group), and the Oxford Handbook of Panel Data (2015, Oxford University Press). He is also author or co-author of over 200 publications, all in leading economics journals.

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Professor Baltagi is editor of Economics Letters, and associate editor of Econometric Reviews. He was also editor of Empirical Economics, (1999-2018), Associate editor of Journal of Econometrics (1999-2018) and the replication editor for the Journal of Applied Econometrics (2003-2018). He is the series editor for Contributions to Economic Analysis (Emerald Publishing) as well as Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics (Springer). He is a fellow of the Journal of Econometrics and a recipient of the Multa and Plura Scripsit Awards from Econometric Theory.

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Professor Baltagi is also a fellow of the Advances in Econometrics and recipient of the Distinguished Authors Award from the Journal of Applied Econometrics. He is a founding fellow and member of the Board of Directors of the Spatial Econometrics Association. He is also a founding member of the International Association for Applied Econometrics.

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Badi received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979.