Michel Wedel

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.

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

Occupation

economist / kickboxer / university teacher / karateka

University

Leiden University

Awards & achievements

• 2005 Dr Hendrik Muller Prize
• 2011 Fellow of the American Statistical Association

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9F%E3%83%83%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%87%E3%83%AB

Tags

• economist
• kickboxer
• university teacher

Last updated

2026-06-02

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