Dr. Berkowitz is a Full Time Lecturer with the Sauder School of Business. For more than thirty five years he has also been a consulting statistician in private practice with his own company, Berkowitz & Associates Consulting Inc. He has participated in collaborative and interdisciplinary research in a very wide range of subject areas. His clients enthusiastically describe him as a user friendly statistician! Dr. Berkowitz is recognized as an outstanding teacher, having won the Killam Teaching Prize for undergraduate teaching and CGA Graduate Master Teacher Award (for MBA teaching), both at Sauder, as well as many awards and commendations from students. He has taught more than 16,000 students. His passion for teaching extends to younger audiences, with regular performances in school classrooms. While numbers are his vocation, words are his avocation. He has co authored two editions of an introductory business statistics textbook and just published a book about word puzzles called The Whirl of Words. Currently, he entertains and educates about the English language as The Word Guy on CBC Radio Ones North by Northwest. He is an active member of the National Puzzlers League, and previously served as the puzzle editor for the American Statistical Association CHANCE magazine. He has a very long and successful track record of leadership for many organizations, including, most recently, the board of directors of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.