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Claudia D'Ambrosio is a research director (Directeure de recherche) at CNRS (France) and an adjunct professor at École Polytechnique (France). She is the head of the International Academic and Research Chair "Integrated Urban Mobility". She holds a Computer Science Engineering Master Degree and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from University of Bologna (Italy). Her research speciality is mathematical optimization, with a special focus on mixed integer nonlinear programming. During her whole carrier, she was involved both in theoretical and applied research projects. She was awarded the EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award for her Ph.D. thesis on "Application-oriented Mixed Integer Non-Linear Programming" and the 2nd award "Prix Robert Faure" (3 candidates are awarded every 3 years) granted by ROADEF society. Claudia published many papers in highly prestigious journals such as the SIAM Journal on Optimization, Mathematical Programming, Transportation Science, to name a few. She also serves as Associate Editor for the EURO Journal and Computational Optimization, Optimization Methods and Software, Optimization and Engineering and 4OR.

Tom Van Woensel is Full Professor of Freight Transport and Logistics in the Operations, Planning, Accounting and Control group of the department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Since July 2019, he is appointed as the Director of Education and Graduate Program Director of the Department of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences (around 2500 students in various BSc, MSc and PhD programs). He is also the program chair of the Bachelor Program Industrial Engineering. Tom serves as Academic Director of the Global Supply Chain Management program at the Antwerp Management School, Belgium. As a collaborating member, he is connected to the CIRRELT in Canada. His research is mainly focused on Freight Transport and Logistics. He published over 110 papers in leading academic journals (including Management Science, Transportation Science, Transportation Research Part B, C, D, E, Production and Operations Management, Interfaces, Computers and Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, etc.) and several chapters in international books. As the lead scientist from the TU/e, he was involved in securing several grants coming from industry, national science foundations, and Europe. He is associate editor for several journals in the transportation field. Tom conducted a large number of projects with industry, mainly with and through his Master, Professional Doctorate, and Doctorate students. He is also director of the European Supply Chain Forum, a collaborative effort with about 75 large multinational companies.

Martin Schmidt is full professor for "Nonlinear Optimization" at Trier University since 2019. He studied Mathematics and Computer Science at the Leibniz Universität Hannover and received his PhD in 2013 in the area of algorithmic optimization. From 2014 to 2018 he was junior professor for the optimization of energy systems at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and the Energy Campus Nürnberg. His research interests are mixed-integer nonlinear and bilevel optimization as well as general equilibrium problems. He develops novel algorithms for solving these problems for real-world and large-scale instances, mainly from the energy sector. Martin Schmidt is editorial board member of the Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Optimization Letters, EURO Journal on Computational Optimization, OR Spectrum, and is technical editor for Mathematical Programming Computation. He wrote more than 85 articles that have been published in prestigious journals of our field including Mathematical Programming (A, B, and C), SIAM Journal on Optimization, Operations Research, or INFORMS Journal on Computing. Moreover, together with colleagues, he was awarded the Marguerite Frank Award for the best EJCO paper in 2021, the MMOR Best Paper Award 2021, and the Howard Rosenbrock Prize 2020 for the best paper published in the journal "Optimization and Engineering" in the year 2020, and the EURO Excellence in Practice Award in 2016. Besides these scientific aspects, he is a passionate baker and photographer.

Luce Brotcorne is a Senior research scientist (Directeur de Recherche) at INRIA (National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology). She is the leader of the INOCS research project team. INOCS works on the modeling and development of solution methods for optimization problems with complex structure. She has been working on the optimization of transportation systems for more than 25 years and in the energy domain for more than 10 years. Her interests include the study of bi-level pricing problems, equilibrium problems and stochastic optimization. More precisely she has a strong experience in modeling and solving optimization problems representing hierarchical decision processes. These problems involve two types of decision markers: a leader and a follower. The leader explicitly integrates the reaction of the follower into his decision making process. This paradigm leading to bilevel optimization problems, is well suited to model and solve incentive design problem like pricing problems. In this case the leader is the agent defining the prices taking into account into the model the reaction of the consumers. Luce Brotcorne has developed efficient solution methods to solve large instances of pricing problems in the context of revenue management or demand side management. Several papers have been published in the energy or transportation field. She is co-author of more than 25 scientific papers or book chapters and has given more than 70 presentations in national and international conferences. She is the Vice President of the EURO-Working Group in Pricing and Revenue Management.  She is an associate editor for the International Transactions in Operational Research (ITOR). She has supervised more than 15 PhD students and Post-docs. She has been, and still is, involved in industrial projects in the field of transportation and energy including the FUI LUMD project on urban logistics, the PGMO project - conducted with EDF (R&D) - on tariff determination in the framework of "Demand Side Management in energy" and “electric cars charging station design and pricing”. She has been the leader of 2 ANR (French Reserch Agency) projects on the design of freight transport systems with a hub structure and on the design of co-modal transport chains. The industrial partner of these two projects was DHL. She has been and is involved bilateral contracts with companies like Colisweb or Urban hub to develop new tools for city logistics.

Mario Veiga Pereira has BSc and MSc degrees in systems engineering and a DSc in Operations Research. He worked at Cepel, Brazil’s Energy Research Center, and EPRI – Electric Power Research Institute, in Palo Alto, before founding PSR, a provider of stochastic optimization tools and consulting in energy with clients in more than 70 countries. He developed the stochastic dual dynamic programming algorithm, SDDP, and other well-known methodologies used in planning and reliability evaluation. He was a main advisor of two Brazilian governments on the management of the country’s energy supply crisis and on the design of generation contracting auctions, which resulted in 80 thousand MW of new capacity, with US$ 550 billion in contracts. Mario is an IEEE Fellow and an elected member of the US National Academy of Engineering, Brazilian Academy of Sciences and Brazilian Academy of Engineering. He was a professor at PUC-Rio and a visiting professor at the IIT, in Spain; co-authored 300 papers and four books on optimization and energy, and co-supervised thirty MSc and DSc thesis. Mario received a Finalist Franz Edelman Award for his work on stochastic hydrothermal scheduling, the National Scientific Merit Medal for his research contributions and the Presidential Rio Branco Medal for his work during the energy crisis.

Shylaja Subramanian is a retired professor of Chemistry from the Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB) in João Pessoa, Brazil. She received here undergraduate degree in Chemistry from the University of Madras in 1963 and her masters degree from the same university in 1965. She moved to Brazil in 1973, and in 1975 she joined the department of  chemistry at UFPB, where she taught many courses. She was also involved in the very first research project of that department. In 1996, she obtained here PhD degree in physical chemistry with distinction from the Univesidade de São Paulo (USP) three years before her retirement.

Elise del Rosario is currently Chief Finance Officer of her family’s One Small Step Forward Foundation which aims to equip elementary public-school children with after school training in mathematics. The first Asian and first woman IFORS Fellow, she served from  2007 to 2009 as the first woman and second Asian President of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS). Prior to this, she was IFORS Vice President-at-large (2001-2003) and Association of Asia Pacific OR Societies President (2005-2007). She started getting involved with IFORS as head of its Developing Countries Committee and has organized conferences on this area in Manila, Tunisia, Catalonia Spain, Rome, India, Brazil, Scotland, UK, Mexico, Sri Lanka, Poland, Canada, Madrid Spain, and online!  As IFORS President, she was passionate about communication with and among members and thus saw to the development of the IFORS website and newsletter. She served as editor of the IFORS News from 2010 until 2017. Elise was an OR analyst at the San Miguel Corporation (SMC). Later, with her as its Manager, the OR Department of SMC garnered the 1992 Operations Research Society of America (ORSA) Prize for outstanding and ongoing use of Operations Research in organizational decision-making. It was during her SMC years in 1987 that she spearheaded the formation of the Operations Research Society of the Philippines (ORSP) which was later accepted into IFORS.  Upon retirement from the San Miguel Corporation as Vice President, Elise went into consulting, a major part of which  was spent on pro-bono work with the Philippine government, in her capacity as Chairperson of the Operations Research Society of the Philippines Committee on OR for Public Service (ORSP Corps). An active OR practitioner, she maintains links with the academe - keynoting national   conferences, as well as publishing papers, acting as referee, and serving in the editorial boards of several international OR journals. She obtained her undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of the Philippines, graduate degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok and was an International Research Fellow at the Stanford Research Institute in California. She taught at the Graduate School of Engineering at the University of the Philippines and did financial analysis work.

Adam Letchford is Professor of Operational Research in the Department of Management Science at Lancaster University, United Kingdom. He has published over 85 articles in leading journals, and over 15 book chapters. He has served on the editorial boards of seven international journals, including Mathematical Programming, Mathematical Programming Computation, and Operations Research. In 2006, he received an IBM Faculty Award and was made an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow. In 2009, he was made a Fellow of the OR Society. From 2008 to 2013, he co-ordinated the optimisation cluster of the LANCS Initiative. In 2013, he led a research programme on optimisation at the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge. From 2011-2018, he was director of NATCOR, the national doctoral training centre in OR. From 2017-2022, he was a member of the REF Subpanel on Mathematical Sciences. He is also a member of the EPSRC and URKI Future Leaders Peer Review Colleges. His research interest is in optimisation, including theory, algorithms, and applications. He concentrates mainly on integer programming and combinatorial optimisation, but also has some interest in global optimisation. He tends to work on exact methods rather than heuristics. He is interested in applications of optimisation not only in OR, but also in statistics, computer science, engineering and the physical sciences. He is known especially for his work on cutting planes and their application to vehicle routing and facility location problems.

Martine Labbé is honorary professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Until  2019 she was professor of Operations Research at the Computer Science Department of the Faculty of Sciences. Her main research area is discrete optimization, including graph theory and integer programming problems and with a particular emphasis on location and network design problems. She is also specialized in bilevel optimization and studies pricing problems and Stackelberg games. She serves or has served on the editorial boards of Discrete Optimization,  International Transactions in Operational Research, Journal on Combinatorial Optimization, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Operations Research, Operations Research Letters and Transportation Science. She was the Editor in Chief of the EURO Journal on Computational Optimization from 2012 to 2020. She is the author or coauthor more than 140 papers published in international journals. In 2007-2008, she was president of EURO, the Association of European Operational Research Societies. She was, in 2014 and 2015, Vice-Chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Optimization (SIAG/OPT). In  2019 she was awarded the EURO Gold Medal.

Andrea Lodi is an Andrew H. and Ann R. Tisch Professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech and the Technion. He is a member of the Operations Research and Information Engineering field at Cornell University. He received his PhD in System Engineering from the University of Bologna in 2000 and he was a Herman Goldstine Fellow at the IBM Mathematical Sciences Department, NY in 2005–2006. He was a full professor of Operations Research at DEI, the University of Bologna between 2007 and 2015. Between 2015 and 2022, he has been the Canada Excellence Research Chair in “Data Science for Real-time Decision Making” at Polytechnique Montréal. His main research interests are in Mixed-Integer Linear and Nonlinear Programming and Data Science, having a significant publication record in the most prestigious journals and conferences of those fields. Andrea Lodi's work has received several recognitions including the IBM and Google faculty awards. Andrea is the recipient of the INFORMS Optimization Society 2021 Farkas Prize. He serves in leading editorial positions, most notably, he is a co-Editor for Mathematical Programming and an Area Editor for INFORMS Journal on Computing. He has been the network coordinator and principal investigator of two large EU projects/networks, and, in the period 2006-2021, consultant of the IBM CPLEX research and development team. Andrea Lodi is the co-principal investigator of the project “Data Serving Canadians: Deep Learning and Optimization for the Knowledge Revolution,” 2017-2022, and the scientific co-director of IVADO, the Montréal Institute for Data Valorization.