Alexander Shapiro is an A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Professor in H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. He was editor-in-chief of the journal Mathematical Programming, Series A and was an area editor of the journal Operations Research . Shapiro graduated with M.Sc. degree in mathematics from Moscow State University in 1971 and ten years later got his Ph.D. in applied mathematics and statistics from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. [1]