Alicia Carriquiry, is Professor of Statistics at Iowa State University. Between January of 2000 and July of 2004 she was Associate Provost at Iowa State. Her research interests are in Bayesian statistics and general methods. Her recent work focuses on nutrition and dietary assessment, as well as on problems in genomics, forensic sciences and traffic safety. Dr. Carriquiry is an elected Member of the International Statistical Institute and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. She serves on the Executive Committee of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences since 1997. She is also a past president of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) and a past member of the Board of the Plant Sciences Institute at Iowa State University. Dr. Carriquiry is Editor of Statistical Sciences and of Bayesian Analysis, and serves on the editorial boards of several Latin American journals of statistics and mathematics. Dr. Carriquiry has served on several National Research Council committees, including the Subcommittee on Interpretation and Uses of Dietary Reference Intakes, the Committee on Evaluation of USDA's Methodology for Estimating Eligibility and Participation for the WIC Program, the Committee on Third Party Toxicity Research with Human Research Participants, and the Committee on Assessing the Feasibility, Accuracy and Technical Capability of a Ballistics National Database. She is a member of the Federal Steering Committee Future Directions for the CSFII/NHANES Diet/Nutrition Survey: What we Eat in America. Dr. Carriquiry has also served on several federal panels, including the National Institutes of Health, Kidney, Nephrology, Obesity and Diabetes Study Section, and the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Science Foundation Review Panel for Partnership for Environmental Research. Carriquiry received a M.Sc. in animal science from the University of Illinois, and an M.Sc. in statistics and a Ph.D. in statistics and animal genetics from Iowa State University.