Graham Rand retired as a senior lecturer in Operational Research at Lancaster University, UK in 2016. He has been Council Member and Conference Chairman of the British Operational Research Society, and was editor of the Journal of the Operational Research Society for six years from 1991-1996. Since 2014 he has edited the Society’s magazine, Impact. For the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) he was Vice-President (1998-2000) and has been editor of both International Abstracts in Operations Research (from 1980-1991) and International Transactions in Operational Research (2000-05). He was editor of the proceedings of the IFORS Conference held in Buenos Aires in 1987, and Chairman of the Program Committee for the IFORS Conference held in Athens in 1990. For the European Association of Operational Research Societies he was chairman of the Gold Medal jury in 1995. He was a founder member of both the International Society for Inventory Research (1983) and the Operations Management Association (1985). He was President of Omega Rho, the international honor society for Operational Research in 2012-2014. The Operational Research Society made him a Companion of Operational research in 2006, and he was made a Fellow by the International Federation of Operational Research Societies in 2021.