Professor Ross Menzies is a clinical psychologist at the Australian Stuttering Research Centre (ASRC) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). He is the National President of the Australian Association for Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (AACBT), Convenor of the 8th World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies, and Treasurer of the World Confederation of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies (WCCBT). He continues active research in anxiety and the mental health aspects of stuttering and has published a dozen books and more than 200 journal papers and book chapters. He has received continuous national, competitive grant funding for over three decades and has a strong interest in developing new and innovative treatment approaches for stuttering and a range of other conditions.