ROBERT WALLER is President and Senior Risk Analyst with Protect Heritage Corp., a firm dedicated to helping institutions and organizations improve heritage management. His career included 33 years with the Canadian Museum of Nature serving periods as Chief of Conservation and as Managing Director of the Collection Services Division. He holds a B.Sc. from the University of Manitoba, a Ph.D. in Conservation on cultural property risk analysis from Göteborg University and Professional Accreditation with the Canadian Association of Professional Conservators. His research interest is risk analysis approaches to rational decision making for collection management and preservation. Author of numerous papers and book chapters on conservation, Robert Waller has taught, lectured, and served as a consultant at museums and universities throughout North America, Asia, Europe and elsewhere. A Fellow of the International Institute for Conservation, he received the Carolyn Rose Award in 2010 from the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections for lifetime achievement and, in 2016, the Sheldon and Caroline Keck award for education of conservation professionals from the American Institute for Conservation.