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{{Short description|Professor of Economics}}
{{notability|1=Academics|date=May 2025}}
{{Infobox academic
| name = Paul Kattuman
| alma_mater = [[Calicut University]],
[[Cambridge University]] & [[Trinity College, Cambridge]] (MPhil, [[PhD]])
| discipline = [[Economist]]
| sub_discipline = [[Econometrics]]
| workplaces = [[Cambridge University]]
| nationality =
| doctoral_advisor = Prof [[David Newbery]]
| occupation = Academic
| education = Professor
| birth_place = [[Kerala]], [[India]]
}}
'''Paul A. Kattuman''' is a Professor of Economics at [[Cambridge Judge Business School]], [[University of Cambridge]] and Director of Studies in Management and Fellow at [[Corpus Christi College, Cambridge|Corpus Christi College]], Cambridge.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Professor Paul Kattuman {{!}} Corpus Christi College University of Cambridge |url=https://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-paul-kattuman#:~:text=BA%20MA%20(Calicut)%20MPhil%20PhD,PhD%20in%20Economics%20at%20Cambridge. |access-date=2024-09-04 |website=www.corpus.cam.ac.uk |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Paul Kattuman |url=https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/people/paul-kattuman/ |access-date=2024-09-05 |website=Cambridge Judge Business School |language=en-GB}}</ref>

== Education ==
Kattuman completed his schooling at [[Sainik Schools|Sainik School]] in Kerala, India, and earned his BA and MA in Economics from the [[University of Calicut]]. He started his career as an economist in the Indian Economic Service, working briefly at the Ministry of Finance, Government of India.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Paul Kattuman |url=https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/people/paul-kattuman/ |access-date=2024-09-04 |website=Cambridge Judge Business School |language=en-GB}}</ref> He obtained his M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from the [[University of Cambridge]] (Trinity College and the [[Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge|Faculty of Economics]]), specializing in the theory and empirics of firm growth under the supervision of Professor [[David Newbery]].<ref name=":0" />

== Career ==
He began his academic career as a lecturer in the Department of Economics at [[Durham University]], before returning to Cambridge as a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Applied Economics, and a Fellow of [[Corpus Christi College, Cambridge|Corpus Christi College]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dr Paul Kattuman - Networks of evidence and expertise for public policy |url=https://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/network/paul-kattuman/ |access-date=2024-09-04 |website=www.csap.cam.ac.uk}}</ref>

Through his career Kattuman has held several visiting positions, including at [[Harvard University]] [[Harvard Kennedy School|Kennedy School of Government]], Harvard Department of Statistics, and the Harvard Data Science Initiative.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Professor Paul Kattuman {{!}} Corpus Christi College University of Cambridge |url=https://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-paul-kattuman |access-date=2024-09-04 |website=www.corpus.cam.ac.uk |language=en}}</ref> He has also served as a visiting professor at [[Paris-East Créteil University|Université Paris-Est Créteil]] and [[Complutense University of Madrid|Universidad Complutense de Madrid]]. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Kattuman held advisory roles, providing forecasts and analysis every week to [[Public Health England]], the [[National Health Service|NHS]] in the [[East of England]], and the governments of [[Kerala]], [[Tamil Nadu]], and [[Punjab|Punjab in India]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Current wave could bring about end of pandemic: Prof Paul Kattuman, Cambridge |url=https://www.theweek.in/theweek/cover/2022/01/15/current-wave-could-bring-about-end-of-pandemic-prof-paul-kattuman-cambridge.html |access-date=2024-09-04 |website=The Week |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-01-01 |title=No reason to believe any state will escape Omicron wave: Cambridge professor who worked on India Covid-19 tracker |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/omicron-interview-cambridge-professor-covid-india-third-wave-7700921/ |access-date=2024-09-05 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Paul Kattuman |url=https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/people/paul-kattuman/ |access-date=2024-09-05 |website=Cambridge Judge Business School |language=en-GB}}</ref>

== Selected publications ==
Kattuman’s research has been published in a range of academic journals, including interdisciplinary journals such as ''Harvard Data Science Review and the Journal of the Royal Society Interface'',<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Harvey |first1=Andrew |last2=Kattuman |first2=Paul |date=2020-05-14 |title=Time Series Models Based on Growth Curves With Applications to Forecasting Coronavirus |url=https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstreams/f46ff66f-8a9a-457e-a2d0-4a3eba9f132d/download |journal=Harvard Data Science Review |language=en |issue=Special Issue 1 |doi=10.1162/99608f92.828f40de |issn=2644-2353|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-09-29 |title=Study suggests R rate for tracking pandemic should be dropped in favour of ‘nowcasts’ {{!}} University of Cambridge |url=https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/study-suggests-r-rate-for-tracking-pandemic-should-be-dropped-in-favour-of-nowcasts |access-date=2024-09-05 |website=www.cam.ac.uk |language=en}}</ref> recently. A contribution, developed in collaboration with Andrew Harvey, is the Harvey-Kattuman model for epidemic forecasting.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Vysniauskiene |first=Lina |date=2023-01-16 |title=Impactful research honoured by FT - News & insight |url=https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/2023/impactful-research-honoured-by-ft/ |access-date=2024-09-05 |website=Cambridge Judge Business School |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Harvey |first1=Andrew |last2=Kattuman |first2=Paul |date=2020-05-14 |title=Time Series Models Based on Growth Curves With Applications to Forecasting Coronavirus |url=https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstreams/f46ff66f-8a9a-457e-a2d0-4a3eba9f132d/download |journal=Harvard Data Science Review |language=en |issue=Special Issue 1 |doi=10.1162/99608f92.828f40de |issn=2644-2353|doi-access=free }}</ref>

== References ==
{{reflist}}<ref>{{Cite news |last=Staton |first=Bethan |date=2023-01-16 |title=Academic research award: tipping point for action |url=https://www.ft.com/content/679f19bd-92eb-475c-9eb2-7dbc9b82846e |access-date=2025-07-01 |work=Financial Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Is India prepared for Omicron? |url=https://www.economist.com/asia/2022/01/08/is-india-prepared-for-omicron |access-date=2025-07-01 |work=The Economist |issn=0013-0613}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Current wave could bring about end of pandemic: Prof Paul Kattuman, Cambridge |url=https://www.theweek.in/theweek/cover/2022/01/15/current-wave-could-bring-about-end-of-pandemic-prof-paul-kattuman-cambridge.html |access-date=2025-07-01 |website=The Week |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-01-02 |title=No reason to believe any state will escape Omicron wave: Cambridge professor who worked on India Covid-19 tracker |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/omicron-interview-cambridge-professor-covid-india-third-wave-7700921/ |access-date=2025-07-01 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref>{{Authority control}}

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