Carol Alexander is Professor of Finance and Chair of Risk Management at the ISMA Centre, University of Reading and formerly a Director and Head of Market Risk Modelling for Nikko Global Holdings and Academic Director of Algorithmics Inc. She has published over 30 papers in international journals and was the founding Editor-in-Chief of NetExposure, the electronic journal of financial risk, sponsored by Algorithmics. Her editorial experience includes 12 books on mathematics and finance, most recently two volumes on Measuring and Modelling Financial Risk and New Markets and Products (Wiley, 1998) and Visions of Risk (Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2000). Carol has developed many models of risk management and investment analysis through consulting, training and research. She has given numerous training courses, seminars and conference presentations on measurement of market, credit and operational risk and on quantitative investment techniques. Carol Alexander also designs commercial software for risk management, portfolio management and trading. Her price prediction model won the first international non-linear financial forecasting competition in 1996.