Christian P. Robert is Professor of Statistics at Université Paris-Dauphine since 2000, as well as the head of the Stat Lab at CREST, INSEE, Paris. He became a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France in OCtober 2010. He was co-editor of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, from 2006 till 2010. He was the president of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) in 2008. His latest book is Introducing Monte Carlo Methods with R translated into French in 2011 (and soon to be translated into Japanese). He is currently working on the new editions of Bayesian Core and Monte Carlo Statistical Methods.