I lead the science team behind Amazon’s global stores’ Long-Term Planning & Forecasting, building econometric, AI, operations research and machine learning models to direct tens of billions of dollars in annual strategic investments and tactical decisions.

As the Senior Science Manager of the Long-Term Planning & Forecasting team, I oversee the development of models that dictate Amazon's warehouse topology planning, topline demand forecasting, top-down retail buying plan, fulfillment network strategy, and retail inventory financial reporting.  Our work ensures that both near-term S&OP and long-term strategic plans are grounded in rigorous, data-driven decision science.

Career Highlights:

• Amazon: Progressed rapidly from Economist to Principal Economist as an individual contributor, then transitioned to Sr. Science Manager of a large, cross-disciplinary science team. Established the Forecasting, Macroeconomics & Finance job family, managed the team developing our store-wide forecasting system marrying dynamic factor models with foundational time series models, and led the creation of an award-winning generative AI system for complex stochastic optimization models.

• Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas: Served as a Research Economist in the Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute, providing international economic and financial analysis to the Bank President ahead of FOMC meetings.  Also, contributed to writing policy speeches, blog posts and bank publications.

• Bridgewater Associates: Partnered with the head software architect to design a "Next Generation" trade generation system managing firm-wide trading across hundreds of accounts and thousands of alpha strategies.

I have also published several papers utilizing machine learning to extract real-time macroeconomic and risk signals from financial data, and I served as a FDIC Senior Research Fellow from 2022 to 2025.

Let's Connect: I am always open to connecting with fellow quantitative leaders, economists, and tech professionals. Feel free to reach out to discuss macroeconomics, applied AI, or supply chain optimization!

My primary fields of interest are:

• • Empirical Macroeconomics

  • International Economics

  • Machine Learning & AI

  • Finance

Contact Information

EGrant.Econ [at] gmail [dot] com