Karim M. Abadir has been the chair of financial econometrics at Imperial College London since 2005. He holds a PhD from Oxford University, and his MA and BA are from the American University in Cairo. He has also taught at the American University in Cairo, University of Oxford, University of Exeter and the University of York, where he held a joint chair between the departments of mathematics and economics from 1996 to 2005 and headed the Statistics Group. On Twitter: @kmabadir