Dr. Borwein was Shrum Professor of Science (1993-2003) and a Canada Research Chair in Information Technology (2001-08) at Simon Fraser University, and was founding Director of the Centre for Experimental and Constructive Mathematics. From 2004 to 2009 he worked in the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie as a Canada Research Chair in Distributed and Collaborative Research, cross-appointed in Mathematics.

He was born in St Andrews in 1951, and received his DPhil from Oxford in 1974, as a Rhodes Scholar. Prior to joining SFU in 1993, he worked at Dalhousie (1974-91), Carnegie-Mellon (1980-82) and Waterloo (1991-93).

Awards and Honours. He has received various awards including the Chauvenet Prize of the MAA (93), Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada (94), Fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (02), an honorary degree from Limoges (99), and foreign membership in the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (03).

Administration. Dr. Borwein was Governor at large of the MAA (2004-07), is a past President of the Canadian Mathematical Society (2000-02) and past Chair of (the National Science Library) NRC-CISTI's Advisory Board (2001-2003). He was recently co-Chair and Chair (2005-2007) of the Executive of C3.ca,---the national HPC Consortium--- a Member of the Atlantic Computational Excellence Network Executive (www.ace-net.ca) and chaired the International Math Union's Committee on Electronic Information and Communications (www.ceic.math.ca, 2002-2008). From 1997-2002, he served on NATO Science Panels overseeing the Nato Physical Science program and the ASI/Summer School programs (as chair in 1998). During 2006 he was Director of the Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical Sciences (www.aarms.math.ca). He is a member at large of the Board of the Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada (2007-09) and was on the Selection Committee for the Canadian Science and Technology Hall of Fame (2006-08).

Research. His interests span pure (analysis), applied (optimization), computational (numerical and computational analysis) mathematics, and high performance computing. He has authored a dozen books---most recently four on Experimental Mathematics (www.expmath.info) and a monograph on Techniques of Variational Analysis---and over 300 refereed articles.

Computing and Information Technology. Dr Borwein is co-founder (1995) of a Halifax software company, MathResources (www.mathresources.com), producing highly interactive CD and Web software mainly for school and university mathematics. He is also a coauthor of Canada's Long Range Plan for advanced computing: Engines of Discovery (c3.ca, 2005 and 2007) and sits on the Canada-EC Information Science and Technology committee (2005-08). The ISI (http://isihighlycited.com/) has identified him as one of the 250 most cited mathematicians of the period 1980-1999.