25 Facts About Clive Granger

Sir Clive William John Granger was a British econometrician known for his contributions to nonlinear time series analysis.

Clive Granger taught in Britain, at the University of Nottingham and in the United States, at the University of California, San Diego.

Clive Granger was born in 1934 in Swansea, south Wales, United Kingdom, to Edward John Granger and Evelyn Granger.

Clive Granger started secondary school in Cambridge, but continued in Nottingham, where his family moved after the war.

Clive Granger had anticipated following the convention of completing schooling at age 16 to enter the workforce and saw himself working in a bank or insurance company.

Clive Granger enrolled in a joint degree in economics and mathematics at the University of Nottingham but switched to full mathematics in his second year.

In 1956, aged 21, Clive Granger was appointed a junior lecturer in statistics at the university.

Clive Granger's interest in applied statistics and economics led him to choose as the topic of his doctoral thesis time series analysis, a field in which he felt that relatively little work had been done at the time.

In 1959 Clive Granger completed his PhD degree with a thesis titled "Testing for Non-stationarity".

Clive Granger had been invited to Princeton by Oskar Morgenstern to participate in his Econometrics Research Project.

Clive Granger became a full professor at the University of Nottingham.

In 2005, the building that houses the Economics and Geography Departments was renamed the Sir Clive Granger Building in honor of his Nobel prize award.

In 1974 Clive Granger moved to the University of California at San Diego.

At UCSD, Clive Granger continued his research on time series, collaborating closely with Nobel prize co-recipient Robert Engle, Roselyne Joyeux, Timo Terasvirta and others.

Clive Granger supervised many PhD students, including Mark Watson.

In later years Clive Granger used time series methods to analyse data outside economics.

Clive Granger worked on a project forecasting deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.

In 2003, Clive Granger retired from UCSD as a professor emeritus.

Clive Granger was a Visiting Eminent Scholar of the University of Melbourne and the University of Canterbury.

Clive Granger was a supporter of the Campaign for the Establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, an organisation which campaigns for democratic reform of the United Nations.

Clive Granger was married to Patricia from 1960 until his death.

Clive Granger was survived by their son, Mark William John, and their daughter, Claire Amanda Jane.

Clive Granger died on 27 May 2009, at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, California.

Clive Granger was made a Knight Bachelor in the New Year's Honours in 2005.

Clive Granger was a fellow of the Econometric Society since 1972 and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy since 2002.