Garrett van Ryzin is the Paul M. Montrone Professor of Decision, Risk and Operations at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and Chair of the Decision, Risk and Operations Division of the School. His research interest includes analytical pricing, stochastic modeling and operations management. He is coauthor of the book The Theory and Practice of Revenue Management, which won the 2005 Lanchester prize for best published work in operations research. He is an INFORMS and MSOM Fellow. Garrett received the B.S.E.E. degree from Columbia University, and the degrees of S.M. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Ph.D. in Operations Research from MIT.