Raymond Laflamme is a Professor of Physics at the University of Waterloo, Canada, and a pioneer in quantum computing. He was the Founding Director of the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), leading it from 2001 to 2017. Laflamme is renowned for his work on quantum error correction, the accuracy threshold theorem, the KLM model for photonic quantum computing, and experimental quantum information studies using nuclear magnetic resonance. He previously held the Canada Research Chair in Quantum Information and currently holds the Mike and Ophelia Lazaridis “John von Neumann” Chair in Quantum Information.