Anil K. Bera is a Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, integral to the Business & Economics faculty through his specialization in Econometrics. He obtained a B.Sc. in Statistics with First Class Honors from Calcutta University in 1975, an M.Stat. in Econometrics and Planning with First Class from the Indian Statistical Institute in 1977, and a Ph.D. in Econometric Modeling from the Australian National University in 1983. After serving as a Research Fellow at CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium from 1982 to 1983, he joined the University of Illinois as Assistant Professor of Economics in 1983, was promoted to Associate Professor in 1987, and to Full Professor in 1991, a position he holds to the present. Additionally, he serves as Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Finance and Agricultural and Consumer Economics since 2004, and Affiliated Professor of Statistics since 2019. Throughout his career, Bera has undertaken extensive visiting appointments worldwide, including multiple stints at the Indian Statistical Institute, Xiamen University's Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics, Istanbul Technical University, and the Higher School of Economics in Russia and Moscow.

Bera's research in Econometrics has profoundly influenced the field, with key publications such as 'Efficient tests for normality, homoscedasticity and serial independence of regression residuals' (1980, cited over 6,000 times), 'A test for normality of observations and regression residuals' (1987, cited over 5,000 times, co-developing the Jarque-Bera test), 'Spatial dependence in linear regression models with an introduction to spatial econometrics' (1998), 'Simple diagnostic tests for spatial dependence' (1996), and 'ARCH models: properties, estimation and testing' (1993). His book 'Financial Econometrics and Empirical Market Microstructure' (2015, co-edited) and approximately 98 research outputs have garnered over 27,000 citations on Google Scholar. Bera has earned numerous honors, including repeated placements on the List of Teachers Rated as Excellent since 1987, multiple Economics Graduate Students' Organization Awards for Excellence in Graduate Teaching since 1989, the College of Commerce Alumni Association Outstanding Teaching Award (1991), Honorable Mention for the Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching (2005), Fellowship of the Spatial Econometrics Association (2007-present), and felicitation by IIT Indore for lifetime contributions to Econometrics (2024).

Professional Email: abera@illinois.edu