Herbert M Barber, Jr, PhD, PhD serves as the Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Xicon Economics. Intersecting the fields of engineering, finance, econometrics, statistics, and probability theory, Dr. Barber is an expert in financial economics as it relates to the management of random walk theory and the navigation of constructs surrounding efficient market hypotheses, especially within assets and equities operating under extreme uncertainty. For over 30 years, he has provided advisory, consulting, and management of large capital investments in the private and public sectors.

Complementing and augmenting his work, Dr. Barber has published numerous scientific papers in referred journals, developed countless reports, papers, articles, and books. Further, Dr. Barber has presented his research at various universities and research symposiums, including Purdue University, Clemson University, Washington State University, the Citadel, Columbia University, Harvard University, Mississippi State University, Georgia Southern University, East Carolina University, Florida State University, Indiana State University, Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, Engineering Research Congress, and others. Additionally, he has lectured at several universities at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels.

At Xicon Economics, Dr. Barber is responsible for conducting advanced statistical and econometric analyses and modeling for the firm, as well as developing narratives for the firm’s research as necessary,be them publications, studies, reports, or papers. In so doing, his contribution focuses on the computational performances of assets, equities, and related variables, as well as economic variables related to the performances of their economies as viewed through GDP, inflation, unemployment, and similar variables. That said, Dr. Barber is an avid proponent of investigating performance as an interdependent economic system, rather than as independent measures of performance. Subsequently, his modeling philosophy is comprehensive; hence, his methods allow the firm to work around model deficiencies stemming through uncertainty while not negating these deficiencies, altogether.

Dr. Barber earned five academic degrees from Georgia Southern University, Florida State University, and Mississippi State University; and he is currently earning his third master’s degree, at Harvard University. In his first PhD at Florida State University, Dr. Barber’s research used behavioral variables to measure the performances of large capital investments, while the research for his second PhD at Mississippi State University focused on the development of robust econometric models to predict financial and economic performances of assets and equities in global energy markets under extreme uncertainty.