Center District, Israel
Professor Ron Kenett is Chairman of the KPA Group, Israel, Senior Research Fellow at the Neaman Institute, Technion, Haifa and Research Professor at the University of Turin, Italy. He is an applied statistician combining expertise in academic, consulting and business domains. Ron is chair of the Israel Data Science Society at AEAI, Past President of the Israel Statistical Association (ISA) and of the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics (ENBIS). He authored and co-authored over 300 papers and 18 books on topics such as biostatistics, healthcare, industrial statistics, data mining, customer surveys, multivariate quality control, risk management and integrated management models. The KPA Group he founded in 1994, is a leading Israeli firm focused on generating insights through analytics. He is editor in chief of StatsRef, serves on the editorial board of several international journals and was awarded the 2026 ASQ Deming medal, the 2013 Greenfield Medal by the Royal Statistical Society, the 2008 Box Medal by ENBIS in recognition for excellence in contributions to the applications of Statistics. In 2022 he received the life achievement award from the Israel Society for Quality. He is member of the National Public Advisory Council for Statistics Israel and member of the Executive Academic Council, Wingate Academic College. He founded the point and click translator company, Babylon.com and is member of the board of several startup companies.
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