Profile for Eduardo Rodriguez

Brief biography

I am member of the Advisory Board of the new Finance, Innovation and Technology Certificate from the Fields Institute of Mathematics – University of Toronto. I am the Founder and Principal at IQAnalytics Inc. Research Centre and Consulting Firm in Ottawa Canada.  Moreover, I have been an Analytics Adjunct Professor at Telfer School of Management at University of Ottawa, Professor of Quantitative Methods for the Master of Healthcare Administration at University of Ottawa, Canada. My last books are Risk Analytics: Data-Driven Decisions under Uncertainty (2023, CRC Press) and  Strategic Risk, Intelligence and Digital Transformation (2023 World Scientific). He was the last three years an Assistant Professor in the School of the Mathematical Sciences at Wenzhou -Kean University in Wenzhou China (Chinese campus of the Kean University NJ). I was the founder and leader of the Risk Analytics Lab at Wenzhou Kean University.  Lately, I have been active participant in the creation and development of the Data Science Program at the Inter-American University of Puerto Rico and keynote speaker in multiple academic and professional conferences, lately in the CSAE International Conference on Computer Science and Application Engineering 2021 and 2022.

I was the first Sentry Endowed Chair in Business Analytics University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. I have been Corporate Faculty of the MSc in Analytics at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology Pennsylvania USA, and I have created and developed the Analytics Stream of the MBA at the University of Fredericton, Canada. He has been Visiting Scholar Chongqing University China, and EAFIT University in Colombia, for the Master of Risk Management.

I have an extensive experience in the practice in data analytics, knowledge, and risk management, mainly in the insurance and banking industry. I have been the Knowledge Management Advisor and Quantitative Analyst at EDC Export Development Canada in Ottawa, Regional Director of PRMIA (Professional Risk Managers International Association) in Ottawa, Executive Vice-President, Vice-President Marketing and Planning for Insurance Companies and Banks in Colombia. Moreover, he has worked as a part-time professor at Andes University and CESA in Colombia, author of eight books in analytics, reviewer of several journals and with publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He created and Chair the Analytics Think-Tank, organized and Chair of the International Conference in Analytics ICAS, member of academic committees for conferences in Knowledge Management and international lecturer in the analytics field.

I hold a Ph.D. from Aston Business School, Aston University in the UK, an MSc. Mathematics Concordia University Montreal Canada, Certification of the Advanced Management Program McGill University Canada, and an MBA and bachelor’s in mathematics from Los Andes University Colombia. My main research interest is in the field of Strategic Risk, Risk Analytics, Strategic Intelligence Development, and Knowledge Management applied to Enterprise Risk Management.