Alexander J. Zaslavski is a senior researcher at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. He was born in Ukraine in 1957 and got his PhD in Mathematical Analysis in 1983, The Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk. He is the author of 26 research monographs and more than 600 research papers and editor of more than 70 edited volumes and journal special issues. He is the Founding Editor and Editor-in Chief of the journal Pure and Applied Functional Analysis, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Communications in Optimization Theory. His area of research contains nonlinear functional analysis, control theory, optimization, calculus of variations, dynamical systems theory, game theory and mathematical economics.