Thanasis Stengos is Professor of Economics at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada since 1984 and a University Research Chair between 2004 and 2019. He obtained his BSc and MSc degrees from the London School of Economics in 1979 and 1980 respectively and his PhD from Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario in 1984. He has held visiting positions at Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario, the University of Cyprus, the University of Bologna at Rimini and the European University Institute in Florence as a Jean Monnet Fellow. He is serving at the executive of the Canadian Econometric Study Group and he is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Applied Econometrics, Economics Letters, Empirical Economics, Journal of Economic Asymmetries, the co-editor of the Review of Economic Analysis and the editor in Chief of the Journal of Risk and Financial Management.