Ali S. Hadi, PhD, Fellow ASA (1997), Member ISI (1998), Fellow AAS (2019) is Distinguished University Professor and former Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Actuarial Science at the American University in Cairo (AUC). He is also the Founder of the Actuarial Science Program at AUC (2004), the Founder of the Data Science Program at AUC (2019), and the former Vice Provost and Director of Graduate Studies and Research at AUC. Dr. Hadi is also a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow and Professor Emeritus at Cornell University, USA. He is the author and co-author of four other books and numerous articles. For more info, see his Website at: www1.aucegypt.edu/faculty/hadi.