Philip Hans Franses (1963) is Professor of Applied Econometrics at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

From 2006 to 2019 he served as the Dean of the Erasmus School of Economics. He is an elected Fellow of the International Statistical Institute, the Journal of Econometrics, of the Journal of Applied Econometrics, of Econometric Reviews, of the International Institute of Forecasters, and of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2012 he received an Honorary Doctorate of the Chiang Mai University.

His research interests concern the development and application of econometric methods for relevant, meaningful, and interesting problems in marketing, finance, and macro-economics. He has published textbooks with Oxford UP and Cambridge UP, some of which were translated into Chinese and Italian. He has published more than 350 articles in international journals, and his work regularly appears in the Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Marketing Research and International Journal of Forecasting.

He regularly serves in boards of advisory committees, and he has consulted a range of companies and institutions including multinationals and charities. He contributed to two Massive Open Online Courses, which together have over 220000 learners worldwide.