Name Mark Abdollahian | ||
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Mark Abdollahian is a Clinical Professor in the School of Social Science, Policy & Evaluation at Claremont Graduate University. He is also Chief Executive Officer of ACERTAS and cofounder of Sentia Group.
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Education
After receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, History and French from Case Western University, Abdollahian acquired an Master of Arts in Foreign and Defense Policy, and a PhD in Political Economy and Mathematical Modeling from Claremont Graduate University (1996).
Career
Abdollahian's studies include strategic decision making, data analytics, predictive analytics, international political economy, sustainable development, economics, growth, econometrics, and computational modeling. He lectures to audiences worldwide, and he serves as a board member for several private and nonprofit enterprises. He has co-authored a book on power transition theory with A.F.K. Organski and Jacek Kugler. He has also written many articles on stability across business, politics, economics, and civil service reform in developing countries. His works in predictive analytics are employed by the US government, the World Bank, the United Nations, as well as private sector companies, such as Arthur Andersen, Motorola, Raytheon, British Aerospace, Chevron and DeBeers. He received multiple grants from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He began teaching at Claremont Graduate University since 2003. In 2005, he helped cofound the Trans Research Consortium, which aims at providing scientific indicators of government performance for all levels of decision makers. In 2011, he was selected CEO of Beijing Ilinoi Investment Company.
Media
As both private corporations and national governments are seeking more advanced scientific methods to understand and predict conflicts, Abdollahian's studies have appeared in the media, such as in CNN and The New Yorker he discusses about the prospects of predictive analysis in international politics. BBC has interviewed him on the privacy concerns of data analytics. In China, Joey Zhouzheng has interviewed him on business, Chinese-America relations, and technology. On a TEDx Talk titled “Venture into the Impossible with Analytics [1]” he examined the important implications on how more data has been collected over the past three years than all of human history and how analytics will be used to create the future.