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MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT Dear ISBIS members, This is my last column as ISBIS President and, first of all, let me tell you that it has been a great honour for me to serve our community in that role. I have had the opportunity to work with committed and friendly people at a difficult time for everyone. The pandemic has changed our lives and the way we work, even for an association such as ISBIS.

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT Dear ISBIS members and friends, I wish you and your family all the best in these troubled days. All of us are trying to find ways to have a “normal” life and ISBIS is doing as well. You already know that ISBIS had to cancel its biennial meeting in Canada last July and now the list is growing: no more the “usual” workshop in Nigeria towards the end of the year

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT This is the time of the year when we start inviting members to renew their membership, and this year is no exception. Two major events are awaiting us in 2020: the ISBIS Conference at Brock University, in St. Catharines, Canada, on July 28-30; and the first ISBIS Regional Conference, to be held in Kochi, India, on December 28-30. You will find news items about them in the next pages. Both of

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT I would like to start my first column as President with a BIG THANK-YOU to Nalini: she did a superb job in her two years of Presidency and I will try my best to follow her path, counting a lot on the help of the ISBIS officers and members. I just came back from the ISI 2019 World Statistics Congress (WSC) and I can tell how vibrant and effective our Association

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT Dear ISBIS Colleagues and Friends: We are just about three months away from the ISI-WSC 2019 in Kuala Lumpur and the ISBIS Satellite Meeting at the Bank Negara Malaysia August 15-16. I am sure these will be exciting conferences and I look forward to seeing many of you there. Two excellent ISBIS short courses will be offered at the WSC both on 17 August 2019: SC04 (Tahir Ekin: Statistical Methods for