Eliezer Z. Prisman holds the Nigel Martin Chair in Finance and is the Director of the Financial Engineering collaborative diploma at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto. He received a BA in Economics and Statistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and an M.Sc. and D.Sc. in Operations Research from the Technion Institute of Technology, Israel. Professor Prisman has held positions as Assistant Professor of Management Science at Georgia Institute of Technology, Assistant Professor of Finance at Arizona State University and Senior Lecturer in Economics at Bar Ilan University. His research area includes optimization and its use in Finance and Financial Engineering, arbitrage pricing in markets with taxes and transaction costs, financial innovation and the use of symbolic computation in financial engineering for commercial, mathematical and academic purposes. Professor Prisman has published numerous papers in journals such as The Journal of Economic Theory, Mathematical Programming, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, The Journal of Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance and Management Science.