Gordon W.F. Drake, FRSC is a University Professor of Physics at the University of Windsor, Canada, and the current Editor of Physical Review A. He is a past Chair of the DAMOP Division of the American Physical Society, 1996-7, and a past President of the Canadian Association of Physicists, 2000. He continues to serve on the Executive of the CAP as Director, International Affairs. He received his B.Sc. degree from McGill University, 1964, M.Sc. from the University of Western Ontario, 1965, and Ph.D. from York University, 1967, followed by a postdoctoral position at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (1967-69). He has published 205 refereed research papers, and is widely cited for his high precision calculations for two and three-electron atoms, including relativistic and quantum electrodynamic effects. Of particular recent interest are applications to the study of the size of halo nuclei. He has received numerous prizes and awards for his work, including a Killam Fellowship (1990-92), and the Canadian Association of Physicists Medal for Achievement in Physics, 1994.