Robert V. Moody is professor of mathematics at the University of Alberta. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1966 and spent most of his academic career at the University of Saskatchewan before coming to Alberta in 1989. He is best known for the discovery, independently with V. Kac, and subsequent investigations of the Kac-Moody Algebras, for which he was awarded the 1994-1996 Eugene Wigner Medal jointly with Kac. He has presented both the Coxeter-James Prize Lecture (1978) and the Jeffrey-Williams Prize Lecture (1995) to the Canadian Mathematical Society. He has served nationally on the Scientific Advisory Boards of both the Centre de Recherches de Mathematique and the Fields Institute for Research in the Mathematical Sciences, and on the Council of the Academy of Science, Royal Society of Canada.