Oliver Linton is a Professor of Political Economy and Econometrics at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Trinity College. He has served as an Associate Editor with Econometrica, a co-editor at Journal of Econometrics, Econometric Theory, and a joint editor of Royal Economic Society (RES) Econometrics Journal. Linton is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. His research contribution has mostly been to do with nonparametric and semiparametric methods. He is also interested in Financial Econometrics.