MEFMI has assembled an impressive line-up of international and regional resource persons to conduct this workshop. They bring a huge amount of experience and expertise in the various issues will be covered here in the next two weeks.
I am confident that the workshop will help all of you who are participating to master the statistical modeling techniques which  2  BIS Review 60/2010  are essential for risk management and to improve your understanding of the concepts and theories of risk management. With these few words, I declare the workshop open. I wish you fruitful deliberations.