Gilbert LaporteGilbert Laporte is Professor of Operations Research at HEC Montréal and holds the Canada Research Chair in Distribution Management. He has been editor of Transportation Science, Computers and Operations Research, and INFOR. He has authored or coauthoed fifteen books and more than 450 scientific articles in combinatorial optimization, mostly in the areas of vehicle routing, location, and timetabling. He has received many scientific awards, including the Pergamon Prize in 1987, the 1994 Merit Award of the Canadian Operational Research Society, and the CORS Practice Prize on three occasions. He has been a member of the Royal Society of Canada since 1998 and a Fellow of INFORMS since 2005. In 2009, he received the Robert M. Herman Lifetime Achievement Award in Transportation Science from the Transportation Science and Logistics Society of INFORMS. In 2014, he obtained the Lifetime Achievement in Location Analysis Award from the Section on Location Analysis of INFORMS. Read More Read Less