Ron Dembo

[2] Dembo's scholarly contributions encompass a diverse range of subjects, including finance and mathematical optimization.

He is listed as inventor for patents in fields such as computational finance, climate change, and software engineering.

[5] In the same year, he founded the non-profit Zerofootprint Foundation[6] which won gold in the Climate Change category at the Canadian Environment Awards in 2008.

[9] This fellowship is awarded to "individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the Fields Institute," its programs, and to the Canadian mathematical community.

[citation needed] In 2009 and 2010, Dembo participated in the Steering Committee of the World Urban Campaign, as coordinated by UN Habitat, in Barcelona,[11] Paris,[12] and Rio de Janeiro.