Professor Gaston M. N’Gu´er´ekata is a native of the Central African Republic. He received his College education from the Universit´e de Montr´eal in Canada where he earned a Ph. D. in Mathematics in 1980. He attended the University of California at Berkeley on a Fulbright postdoctoral program. A former Vice Rector and Rector a.i of the University of Bangui, Professor N’Gu´er´ekata held several academic, political and administrative positions in his home country, including High Commissioner then Deputy Minister for Science and Technology and Environment Matters. In 1992 he was appointed Special Advisor and Spokesman to the Head of State with ministerial rank. Professor N’Gu´er´ekata joined Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, in 1996 and has been the Mathematics Department Chairperson and Assistant Dean in the School of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences.  A leading expert in the theory of almost periodic and almost automorphic functions and their applications to evolution equations, he is author of over 100 publications, including 6 books. Professor N’Gu´er´ekata is a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences, Chief Editor and Founder of the International Journal of Evolution Equations,  Associate Editor for the Journal of Applicable Analysis, the Journal of Nonlinear Studies, the International Journal of Differential Equations, and the Global Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics; he serves on the Editorial Board of several other refereed international mathematical journals. Professor N’Gu´er´ekata has been a Visiting Professor in several Universities in the U.S., France, Canada, China, Morocco and Guadeloupe. He gave several invited lectures at ma jor international conferences and was granted several awards for excellence in research, including the 2006 Claytor-Woodard Invited Lecture Series, and the 2007-2008 Iva Jones Medallion.