Steve Brown has been on Faculty at the University of Waterloo since 1974.  Steve grew up in Orillia and attended Orillia District Collegiate and Vocational Institute where his father was a math teacher.  Steve then came to UW and completed his Bachelor’s and Doctoral degrees in the Faculty of Mathematics.  While Steve has never taught in the school system in Ontario, he gained early and quick exposure to the system through his participation in the infamous high school “road show” of the 1970s and 1980s, traveling to far-flung parts of the province. Steve has managed to maintain equal interests in research, in administration, and in education.  On the research front, Steve describes himself as a biostatistician, specializing in studies of health behaviours such as smoking; he is currently co-Director of the Population Health Research group on campus. On the administrative side, Steve has served as Chair of the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Director of the CEMC and, from 2001 to the end of 2009 as Associate Dean, External Relations.  There is no question of Steve’s commitment to education in Ontario and beyond, as evidenced by his involvement in the CEMC’s outreach activities, including chairing the Euclid Problems Committee for more than twenty years, and in the recent revisions of the Ontario mathematics curriculum.  Steve’s sense of humour can only be described as legendary; there are few people better than he at the podium.  Steve lives in Heidelberg with his wife Beth and their two dogs.  They have two children, Michael and Susan.