Laszlo Matyas is a well-known Hungarian-Australian economist/econometrician. He (co)authored and (co)edited several high impact publications in econometrics, mostly in the field of panel data. Currently he is a University Professor at the Central European University (CEU – Budapest, Hungary and Vienna, Austria). Earlier, among others, he worked as Senior Lecturer at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), was the founding Director of the Institute for Economic Analysis (Budapest, Hungary), and also served as Provost of CEU.