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It was at the height of the Asian financial crisis when we fist conceived the idea of holding an international workshop on “statistics in Finannce”in Hong Kong,which was coincidetally called the capital of Risk by professor Tony Giddesns,the Director of the London School of Economics ,in his Re-ith Lecture broadcasted by the B.B.C.world Service live from Hong Kong around the time.The preparations took about a year to complete.It was during thar unusually wet week of 4-8 July1999that the workshop finally took place.Sixty-tow participants,all by invitation.from14 countries/regions werwe”locked Behind closed doors”in the secluded(by Hong Kong standard)Goldoast International Hotel in Tuen Mun,Hong kong,where discussions of important issues ,debates on the best methods and exchanges of ideas were only interrupted by sumptuous lunches and dinners provided by the hotel at dnock-down prices;we were true believers in seeking opportuities form crises.