Senior Non-Resident Associate Fellow

Matthias Seifert is an Associate Professor of Decision Sciences in the Operations & Business Analytics area at IE Business School in Spain. He also serves as a technical member (officially representing Germany) on various Research Task Groups related to anticipatory intelligence and weak signal assessment at NATO Science and Technology Organization. He holds a PhD from Cambridge University and was previously affiliated to the London Business School and the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Dr. Seifert’s research focuses on decision making under risk as well as judgmental forecasting. Specifically, he is interested in studying the psychology of warning signals as well as implications for designing prescriptive early warning systems in high impact environments. His work has been published in top academic and practitioner journals and was featured by public media including Forbes India, Ideas for Leaders, CBS News, the Financial Times International (“Professor of the Week”), Psychology Today and others. In 2016, he was included in the list of “The Best 40 Under 40 Business School Professors” by Poets & Quants.