A. Ian McLeod received his Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo in 1977. His Ph.D. supervisor was Dr. Mary E. Thompson. For his Ph.D. thesis entitled "Topics in Time Series Analysis", Dr. McLeod received the Alumni Gold Medal Award for 1978 for the best Ph.D. in all disciplines at the University of Waterloo. In 1978, Dr. McLeod joined the Mathematics Department at the University of Western Ontario. As of October 2005, Dr. McLeod has published 60 articles in refereed journals as well as one textbook and numerous other articles and has 864 citations to his research listed in the Web of Science Citation Index. Dr. McLeod has held visiting research positions at CSIRO, Canberra; COPPE/UFRJ, Brasil; Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo; University of Kyoto; University of Montreal; Wolfram Research Inc. and was worked on statistical consulting projects for Environment Canada, Statistics Canada, Traffic Injury Research Foundation, Southern California Consolidated Edison Company and sales forecasting for a management consulting company.   Dr. McLeod served as Department Chair, Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, University of Western Ontario 2000-2004. As of Fall 2005, 10 Ph.D. theses have been completed under Dr. McLeod's supervision as well as 1 M.Sc. Thesis and 23 M.Sc. Projects.  My Erdös number is four.