Saif Benjaafar
Distinguished McKnight University Professor
Director, Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Minnesota, USA

Saif Benjaafar is also the Director of the Center for Supply Chain Research, and a Faculty Scholar with the Center for Transportation Studies. He was a Distinguished Senior Visiting Scientist at Honeywell Laboratories and a Visiting Professor at universities in France, Belgium, Hong Kong, China and Singapore. He Holds PhD and MS degrees from Purdue University and a BS degree from the University of Texas at Austin. His research is in the areas of supply chain management, service and manufacturing operations, and production and inventory systems, with a current focus on sustainability and environmental modeling. He is on the editorial board of several journals including MSOM, POM, NRL, and IIE. More information can be found on his website.

George Nemhauser
Russell Chandler lll Chair and Institute Professor
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology

George Nemhauser received a Ph.D. in operations research from Northwestern University. He has held visiting faculty positions at the University of Leeds, U.K., and the University of Louvain, Belgium. Dr. Nemhauser was co-director of the Logistics Engineering Center at Georgia Tech. He is the founding editor of Operations Research Letters, was editor iof Operations Research and co-editor of Handbooks of Operations Research and Management Science. His honors and awards include membership in the National Academy of Engineering, the Kimball Medal, the Lanchester Prize (twice awarded), and Morse lecturer of ORSA. His logistics research focus is in discrete optimization. His current interests are in solving large-scale mixed-integer programming problems. He is actively working on several applications, especially crew and fleet scheduling problems in the airline industry.

Carlos Romero
Professor, Department of Forestry Economics and Management
Forestry School
Technical University of Madrid

Carlos Romero, PhD in Agricultural Economics is currently Professor of Economics at the Technical University of Madrid. He is author, co-author and editor of 20 books and of around 200 research papers with an interdisciplinary perspective that combines engineering, economics and applied mathematics. He is elected fellow of several associations like the "Operational Research Society". He is currently Area Editor ("Multiobjective optimization and goal programming") of the Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis and Associate Editor ("Operations Research") of Forest Science. He has received among other distinctions, in 2001 the National Prize of Economics and the Environment and in 2006 the Georg Cantor Award bestowed by the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making. More information can be found on his website.