Ramazan Gençay, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Ramazan Gençay

economist (Simon Fraser University; Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA))

Date of Birth: 17-Feb-1961

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: economist, academic

Nationality: Canada, Turkey

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Ramazan Gençay (17 February 1961 – December 2018) was a Turkish-born Canadian economist.
Born in Turkey, he graduated from Middle East Technical University in Ankara and attended graduate school in North American, where he earned a master's degree from the University of Guelph and a PhD from the University of Houston.
He taught Economics at the University of Windsor and Carleton University until 2004, and he was a professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University from 2004 to 2018.
He was "found dead" in Colombia on December 24, 2018.
According to SFU, he was "a pioneer in the use of wavelets to analyze financial data, in the analysis of high-frequency data, and [...] in the role of economic networks in financial markets."