Professor Barry Green completed his PhD at the University of Cape Town in 1984 and lectured at Stellenbosch University before spending ten years as a research scientist at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. In 1996 he returned to Stellenbosch University, where he was appointed Chair of the Mathematics Department in 2002 and Executive Head of the Department of Mathematical Sciences in 2006.

Barry has been closely involved with the growth of AIMS since its founding in 2003 and was appointed the second Director in April 2010. He is keenly involved in promoting the growth of the mathematical sciences in Africa and is editor of the mathematics journal Quaestiones Mathematicae and on the editorial board of Afrika Mathematika.