RICHARD D. GILL was born in 1951 in the UK. He holds a B.A. degree in mathematics, Cambridge University, 1973; a diploma of statistics, Cambridge University, 1974; a PhD degree in mathematics, Free University Amsterdam, 1979. In his career he has been head of the statistics department, CWI Amsterdam; professor mathematical statistics in Utrecht,and later in Leiden; and is now emeritus professor in Leiden. His early work was in counting processes, survival analysis, martingale methods, semiparametric models. Later he worked in forensic statistics, quantum information, and on scientific integrity. His work on experimental loopholes in Bell-type experiments was incorporated in the famous “loophole-free” Bell experiments of 2015. He is a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Science and a past president of the Netherlands Society for Statistics and Operations Research.