Richard Gerlach is a Professor of Business Analytics at Business School, the University of Sydney. His research interests lie mainly in financial econometrics and time series. His work has concerned developing time series models for measuring, forecasting and managing risk in financial markets as well as computationally intensive Bayesian methods for inference, diagnosis, forecasting and model comparison for these models. Recent focus has been on nonlinear threshold heteroskedastic models for volatility, Value-at-Risk and Expected Shortfall forecasting. He has developed structural break and intervention detection tools for use in state space models; also has an interest in estimating logit models incorporating misclassification and variable selection. His research papers have been published in Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Time Series Analysis and the International Journal of Forecasting. He has been an invited speaker and regular presenter at international conferences such as the International conference for Computational and Financial Econometrics, the International Symposium on Forecasting and the International Statistical Institute sessions.