Narendra K. Govil is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Auburn University, from where he retired as Professor, in 2020. He received his M.Sc. from Aligarh Muslim University, India and Ph.D. from the University of Montreal, Canada. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India and has been Alumni Professor in Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Auburn University. Before joining Auburn in 1983, he was a Professor at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi, India. He is a researcher in Complex Analysis and Approximation Theory, and has written a large number of papers in subjects related to Bernstein-type Inequalities, Geometry of the Zeros of Polynomials, Special Functions, and Wavelets. He is presently serving as Editor/Associate Editor of several journals, and has co-authored/co-edited six books including Progress in Approximation Theory and Applicable Complex Analysis, published by Springer in 2017.