Douglas A. Lind, Coastal Carolina University

Douglas A. Lind is now an adjunct professor at Coastal Carolina University. He earned his Ph.D. and an MBA from The University of Toledo and a Bachelor of Science in Business from Bowling Green State University.
     Dr. Lind is the co-author with the late Robert D. Mason and William G. Marchal of Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics and Basic Statistics for Business and Economics published by Irwin/McGraw-Hill and Statistics: An Introduction published by Duxbury. In addition he has written Study Guides to be used with these texts.
     Dr. Lind has more than 25 years of college teaching experience. This includes teaching statistics at the introductory, intermediate, and advanced undergraduate level, as well as graduate courses in statistics and research methods. He is a past recipient of the Tony DeJute Outstanding Teacher award. This award is given annually by the College of Business to the outstanding teacher in the College.
     He is active in both consulting and community service in Northwest Ohio. He has consulted with such national firms as Ford Motor Company, Key Bank, National City Bank, and the former Sheller Globe. Regional consulting includes work with The Toledo Hospital, St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, and the Toledo Community Oncology Program. He has served the community of Perrysburg, Ohio as a member of volunteer committees for the city and the school system. This includes his most avid avocation, coaching high school baseball, having served as a volunteer coach for more than 12 years.
     His professional memberships include The American Statistical Association, Decision Sciences, and The Textbook Author's Association.

William G. Marchal, University of Toledo

William G. Marchal is Professor of Information Systems and Operations Management at The University of Toledo College of Business Administration. He received his B.S. degree in Mathematics from The University of Dayton, an M.A. in Mathematics from The Catholic University of America, and his D. Sc. in Operations Research from The George Washington University. Dr. Marchal has held visiting appointments at The University of Michigan and George Mason University. He has also worked at the Executive Office of the District of Columbia government, the George Washington University Institute for Management Science, and the U.S. Army Chemical Research & Development Center.
     Dr. Marchal is co-author with the late Robert D. Mason and Douglas A. Lind of three textbooks: Statistics: An Introduction; Statistical Techniques in Business & Economics; and Basic Statistics for Business & Economics. His research on stochastic models focuses on applications to waiting line models. Dr. Marchal has made paper presentations at meetings of professional societies, referred papers for journals and served as an associate editor of Naval Research Logistics. Published articles appear in the journals: Communications in Statistics, INFORMS, Journal on Computing, IIE Transactions, Interfaces, Operations Research, The Annals of Operations Research, AIIE Transactions and The Journal of Applied Probability.

Robert D. Mason, Late of the University of Toledo

Professor Mason spent 1942 to 1946 in military service in the Pacific. After his discharge he earned undergraduate degrees from the State University of New York at Fredonia in 1946 in Mathematics and another in Economics from the State University of New York at Albany in 1947. In 1949 he earned an MA from Vanderbuilt University. He began his teaching career at Jacksonville State Teachers College in Alabama. He also taught at Lehigh University and the University of Oklahoma before coming to The University of Toledo in January, 1955. In the mid 1960s he developed an interest in writing textbooks. The first edition of Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics was published by Richard D. Irwin, Inc. in 1967. He participated in the eight revisions of this text. He was also a co-author on two editions of Basic Statistics for Business and Economics (published by Irwin/McGraw-Hill) and five editions of Statistics: An Introduction (published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Sanders, and Duxbury). He also co-authored with Walter Lange and Temoleon Rousos two editions of Consumer Mathematics, four editions of Mathematics with Business Applications (published by Glencoe McGraw-Hill), and three editions of Business and Consumer Mathematics (published by R. D. Irwin, Inc.).
     Professor Mason retired from The University of Toledo in June of 1977. He continued as an active writer for almost 20 years until his death in November 1997.

Satya Dev Gupta, St.Thomas University

Dr. Satya Dev Gupta is Professor of Economics at St. Thomas University. Previously, he has held teaching positions at McGill University, University of Toronto, University of the West Indies, and the University of Delhi. He was a Doctoral Research Fellow at the Economics Research Unit, University of Pennsylvania.
     In addition to the regular teaching at St. Thomas, Dev has served in many administrative capacities such as the Chair of his Department, the Director of University Research, the President of the Faculty Association, and the Director of the New Brunswick Research and Resource Centre.
     Dev Gupta has published a number of scholarly papers in the fields of applied econometrics, international economics, public economics, and regional economics in leading economics journals. He has published five books: The World Zinc Industry (LexingtonBooks: D.C. Heath and Co.), Globalization, Growth and Sustainability (Kluwer Academic Publishers), Dynamics of Globalization and Development (Kluwer Academic Publishers), Political Economy of Globalization (Kluwer Academic Publishers), and (with Francis Adams and Kidane Mengisteab) Globalization and the Dilemmas of the State in the South (St. Martin’s Press and Macmillan Press). Presently, in addition to this book, Statistical Techniques for Business and Economics, Dev is working on a research project in the area of globalization and human development.
     Dev Gupta is a recipient of several research grants, two awards for Excellence in Teaching and an award for Excellence in Scholarship. He is a member of a number of professional organizations including American Economic Association, International Association for Statistical Education, The Indian Econometric Society and Canadian Economic Association. He has also worked as a consultant to a number of private and public sector organizations including the federal and the provincial government departments.

Santosh Kabadi, University of New Brunswick

Santosh Kabadi is a Professor of Management Science at the University of New Brunswick. He earned his Ph.D. in Operational Research from the School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas.
     Dr. Kabadi has taught courses in Statistics, Management Science, Operations Research, Production Management, and Mathematical Programming for over 20 years, both in Canada and abroad. He has held visiting faculty positions at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
     Dr. Kabadi has published over 30 research articles in international journals of repute. His research has been continuously funded by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council since 1985. He is a recipient of the Faculty Award for Excellence in Research at the University of New Brunswick.

Jineshwar Singh, George Brown College

Jineshwar Singh is Professor and Coordinator of Interdisciplinary Studies with George Brown College in Toronto. He holds an M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Aston in Birmingham, England, Baccalaureates of Science from Glamorgan Polytechnic in South Wales, U.K., and Patna University in Bihar, India, and a B.Ed. from the University of Toronto.
     Professor Singh has 25 years teaching experience, and has presented papers with the International Conference on Technology and Education and OCMA. He is a member of the American Statistical Association and the Ontario College Mathematics Association.