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My Take
Michel Wedel is the kind of profile that makes you grin in disbelief. Here is a Dutch-born Distinguished University Professor at Maryland, holding a PepsiCo chair and shaping the statistical methods we use to understand consumer behavior, eye tracking, and market segmentation. Becoming a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2011 marks him as a genuine heavyweight in his field. And then the record casually adds kickboxer and karateka to the list. That collision of rigorous quantitative scholarship and combat discipline is irresistible to me. He embodies a curiosity that refuses to stay inside one arena, and I respect that enormously.
Overview
Michel Wedel is the PepsiCo Chaired Professor of Consumer Science in the Robert H. Smith School of Business, and a Distinguished University Professor, at the University of Maryland, College Park. He works on the development of statistical and econometric methods to analyze and predict consumer behavior, in addition to market segmentation and eye tracking research.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Michel Wedel
- Name (Japanese)
- ミッシェル・ウェーデル
- Reading
- みっしぇる・うぇーでる
- Born
- January 1, 1957 (age 69)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Capricorn / Rooster
- Origin
- The Hague, Netherlands
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- economist / kickboxer / university teacher / karateka
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Leiden University
Awards & achievements
- 2005 Dr Hendrik Muller Prize
- 2011 Fellow of the American Statistical Association
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Economist — see all → · Kickboxer — see all → · More people from Netherlands →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.