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Luk N. Van Wassenhove (born 1950 in The Democratic Republic of Congo) is Professor of Operations Management and the Henry Ford Chaired Professor of Manufacturing at INSEAD. He created the INSEAD Social Innovation Centre, where he leads the INSEAD Humanitarian Research Group. His research and teaching are concerned with operational excellence, supply chain management, continual improvement and learning. He is programme director of INSEAD’s leading management programmes, International Management Programme and Management in the Humanitarian Sector, as well as the CEDEP General Management Programme.

Education

• Ph.D. in Applied Sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, Title of Ph.D.: “Special-Purpose Algorithms for One-Machine Sequencing Problems with Single and Composite Objectives”, advisor prof. dr. ir. L. Gelders

• CIM-fellow, Interuniversity College of Doctoral Studies in Management Brussels, Belgium

• M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

• Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Carreer

Professor Van Wassenhove has held professorships at Katholieke Universiteit (KU) Leuven in Belgium, Erasmus University in the Netherlands and INSEAD, France. He is a faculty member of CEDEP and has lectured at universities and management schools all over the world such as Wharton, Harvard and Vanderbilt. He has been instrumental in the creation and development of such fields of research as Closed Loop Supply Chains and Humanitarian Logistics and has presented his research at over 100 international academic and trade conferences. He has supervised more than 25 doctoral dissertations and has managed multiple large collaborative research projects on behalf of the European Union, the Dutch Government and the NATO.

Professional Societies

Professor Van Wassenhove is member of numerous professional societies including: the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), the European Operations Management Association (EUROMA), the Mathematical Programming Society (MPS), the Belgian Production and Inventory Control Society (PICS), the Royal Flemish Engineering Society (K.VIV), the Royal Dutch Engineering Society (KIVI), the European Logistics Association (ELA) and the International Society for Inventory Research (ISIR).

Academic Work

Professor Van Wassenhove is the author, co-author or editor of over ten books and has published over two hundred scientific peer-reviewed papers. This is not including book chapters, trade articles or monographs which amount to well over three hundred in total. He is senior editor for Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, departmental editor for Production and Operations Management, and is a member of approximately fifteen different editorial boards. He has also written in the region of hundred and fifty case studies, including six that have been received the Best Case of the Year award.

Selected Publications

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Current affiliations

Professor Van Wassenhove is the incoming president of the Production and Operations Management Society. In 2011 he was elected member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Sciences and he holds the Francqui Chair at the Université Catholique de Louvain. He holds editorial positions for several journals e.g. for Production and Operations Management. He publishes regularly in Management Science, Production and Operations Management, and many other academic as well as management journals (like Harvard Business Review and California Management Review).

Research interests

Professor Van Wassenhove’s recent research focus is on closed-loop supply chains (product take-back and end-of-life issues) and on disaster management (humanitarian logistics). At this moment he is exploring which lessons could be learned from the humanitarian sector that are useful for multinationals that are expanding into the developing world.

Awards

• 2009 – Lifetime Achievement Faculty Pioneer Award from the European Academy of Business in Society (EABIS) and the Aspen Institute

• 2009 – Distinguished Fellow of the Manufacturing and Services Operations Management Society (MSOM)

• 2008 – Best Case Study Award in Corporate Social and Responsibility for the Moving the World Series Cases, European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD)

• 2007 – Best Case Study Award in Production and Operations Management Series Cases, European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD)

• 2006 – EURO Gold Medal for outstanding academic achievement

• 2005 – Best Case Study Award in Corporate Social Responsibility for the Moving the World Series Cases , European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD)

• 2005 – The Fellow of POMS Award, Production and Operations Management Society

• 2005 – The Shingo Research Prize Award for the article “Managing Learning Curves in Factories by Creating and Transferring Knowledge”

He is also the author of many award-winning teaching cases and regularly consults for major international corporations.

External links

• tv.insead.edu/video/Social+Innovation/10/5978