Tim Bollerslev is the first Juanita and Clifton Kreps Distinguished Professor of Economicsat Duke University, Professor of Finance at the Fuqua School of Business, and ResearchDirector for the Duke Financial Economics Center (DFE). He is a member of the RoyalDanish Academy of Sciences and Letters, and a fellow of the Econometric Society, theAmerican Statistical Association (ASA), the Society for Financial Econometrics (SoFiE),and the International Association for Applied Econometrics (IAAE). He is also a longtimeResearch Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and anInternational Research Fellow at the Center for Research in Time Series Econometrics(CREATES) at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. He currently serves as president ofthe Society for Financial Econometrics (SoFiE) and chair of the Scientific Council of theDanish Finance Institute (DFI). Prior to joining Duke, Dr. Bollerslev has held positionsas the Sharpe Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Kellogg Graduate School ofManagement at Northwestern University, and the Commonwealth Professor ofEconomics at the University of Virginia.Dr. Bollerslev has published extensively in all of the leading academic journals in hisarea. He is the author of the first and third most cited papers in the Journal ofEconometrics, and he is frequently ranked among the most cited economists worldwide. Dr. Bollerslev was awarded the 2018 Carlsberg Foundation Research Prize for “his highlyrecognised research within finance and time-series econometrics.” He is especially wellknown for his work on measuring, modeling, and forecasting volatility, or economicrisks. Many of the methods developed by Dr. Bollerslev, including the GARCH model andthe concept of realized volatility, are now routinely used by academicians and financepractitioners all over the world. The GARCH model was explicitly cited in the pressrelease accompanying the 2003 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences as the “model mostoften applied today” for analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility.A native of Denmark, Dr. Bollerslev received his M.S. degree in Economics andMathematics from the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and his Ph.D. degree inEconomics from the University of California, San Diego. He is married and lives inDurham, North Carolina. In his free time he enjoys reading, spending time with family,traveling, tennis, and skiing.