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Andrés Medaglia is full professor of Industrial Engineering at Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia) and director of the research center Centro para la Optimización y Probabilidad Aplicada (COPA). He holds a Ph.D. (2001) in Operations Research (OR) from North Carolina State University (USA). From 1999 to 2002 he worked as an optimization specialist developing decision support systems for SAS (Cary, NC, USA). In 2002, he joined the Industrial Engineering Department at Universidad de los Andes and served as Department Chair from 2014 to 2017. He has more than 20 years of experience designing, developing, and applying optimization methodologies to transportation and logistics, healthy and sustainable cities, engineering design, and agricultural systems. His research has led to over 70 peer-reviewed publications in operational research (OR).  He currently serves in the editorial boards of Transportation Science, Computers and Operations Research, the European Journal of Industrial Engineering, and TOP (journal of the Spanish OR and Statistics Society). He has served as Secretary and Vicepresident of the Latin-Ibero American Association of Operations Research (ALIO); as Vicepresident of Central/South America for the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE); and as Vicepresident of the Colombian Operational Research Society (ASOCIO). In INFORMS, he currently serves in the Publications Committee. He has been the recipient of several awards, most recently, the Glover-Klingman Prize (2020), the INFORMS/TSL President’s Service Award (2017), the IFORS Prize for OR in Development (Quebec City, Canada, 2017), and the EURO Award for the Best EJOR (Review) Paper in 2015. He was the IFORS Invited Tutorial Lecturer at EURO 2018 (Valencia, Spain); and keynote speaker at the IISE Annual Conference and Expo (2021), the International Conference on OR for Development (ICORD 2016) (México DF, Mexico), Optimization Days (Montréal, Canada, 2014), and the NSF - Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI) on Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Globalized Physical Distribution Systems (Santiago, Chile, 2013). As an avid amateur cyclist, he has won bronze, silver, and gold medals in the (Colombian) individual time trial championships at the masters category. More information at: http://wwwprof.uniandes.edu.co/~amedagli.