Mark Maunder is the Head of the Stock Assessment Program at the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC), located in La Jolla, California. He is also co-founder of the Center for the Advancement of Population Assessment Methodology (CAPAM; www.capamresearch.org) and co-founder and past president of the AD Model Builder (ADMB) Foundation. Mark co-ordinates, and often chairs, the CAPAM workshop series on fisheries stock assessment methodology. Marks research focuses on population assessment methodology, with particular focus on fisheries stock assessment. He completed his Phd at the University of Washington under the supervision of Professor Ray Hilborn, where he pioneered the integration of tagging data into stock assessment models. Since then, his research has covered a range of topics and he has collaborated with a wide variety of researchers as outlined at www.populationassessment.com and summarized in the following two publications: Maunder, M.N., 2024. Towards a comprehensive framework for providing management advice from statistical inference using population dynamics models. Ecol. Mod. 498, 110836 Maunder, M.N., Crone, P.R., Semmens, B.X., Valero, J.L., Waterhouse, L., Methot, R.D., Punt, A.E., 2024. The Center for the Advancement of Population Assessment Methodology (CAPAM): A perspective on the first 10 years. Fish. Res. 281, 107162