Harold Ramkissoon [1]

B.Sc. Honours in Mathematics, University of the West Indies, Jamaica (1966); M.Sc. in Mathematics, University of Toronto, Canada (1969); Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, University of Calgary, Canada (1975). At the present he works as Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, The University of the West Indies St. Augustine, Trinidad. Fellow of the Caribbean Academy of Sciences (1990); Corresponding Member of the European Academy of Sciences (2002); Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (2003). Presented with the Key to the City of Havana for contribution to the Development of Science in the Caribbean (2000); Recipient of the Chaconia Gold Medal, The second highest National Award of Trinidad and Tobago, for long and meritorious service in the field of education (2000), Presented with the Simon Bolivar Academic Gold Medal of the University of Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela (2001). He is Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba since 2000.