Salil Mehta, CFA, is a former leader of the US Treasury/TARP's analytics team as well as PBGC’s policy, research, and analysis, and their first risk analysis function. He serves as an adjunct professor of statistics at Georgetown University, on the board of the American Statistical Association's peer-reviewed journal, and on BlackRock's FutureAdvisor council. Mehta is the creator of the Statistical Ideas blog and the author of Statistics Topics.