PARIMAL MUKHOPADHYAY is a former professor of statistics at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. He received his PhD degree in statistics from the University of Calcutta in 1977. He also served as a faculty member at the University of Ife, Nigeria, Moi University, Kenya, University of South Pacific, Fiji Islands and held visiting positions at the University of Montreal, University of Windsor, Stockholm University and the University of Western Australia. He has written more than seventy five research papers in survey sampling, some co-authored and eleven books on statistics. He is a member of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and elected member of the International Statistical Institute.