This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Mathematical Optimization Theory and Operations Research, MOTOR 2020, held in Novosibirsk, Russia, in July 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online.   The 25 full papers and 8 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 102 submissions. The papers in the volume are organised according to the following topical headings: ​combinatorial optimization; mathematical programming; global optimization; game theory and mathematical economics; heuristics and metaheuristics; machine learning and data analysis.