Alessandro Ghiretti was born in Parma in 1990. He received his master degree in Marketing from the University of Parma in 2015 and he is currently a PhD candidate in statistics at the university of Florence. His current research interests include:

- Robust statistics and outlier detection techniques

- Time series analysis

- The Forward Search

Currently he is working on his PhD dissertation with the aim of extending the Forward Search to the class of ARIMA models used for the analysis of time series data.

From 2017 he is a member of the Italian Society of Econometrics.