Swiss citizen, Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser is Professor of Statistics. She holds a Ph. D. in Econometrics and Statistics from the University of Geneva and she has been lecturer at the Statistics Department of the London School of Economics (1993-1996) and assistant professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational sciences of the University of Geneva (2000-2004).

Her research and publications are in statistics fields (with special emphazis in robust statistics) related to Economics (income distribution, inequality and poverty), Finance (extreme value modelling, portfolio optimisation) and of Social Sciences (generalised linear models, models with latent variables).