Riaan de Jongh has recently retired from his position as Director Centre for Business Mathematics and Informatics at North-West University, South Africa. Currently he is an emeritus researcher at the NWU and holds a PhD from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He has published a number of articles that received best paper awards by the South African Statistical Society, the Actuarial Society of South Africa, the Operations Research Society of South Africa, and the Journal of Operational Risk (Risk.net (UK)). He is a Fellow of the South African Statistical Society.