James C. Bean is the new President of INFORMS. Dr. Bean is the Associate Dean for Graduate Education, College of Engineering, University of Michigan Ann Arbor. He served as the Ford Motor Company Co-Director of the Tauber Manufacturing Institute at the University of Michigan from 1993-1999. He is the founder of the Engineering Global Leadership Honors Program, which he served from 1992-1999. Dr. Bean received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from Stanford University in 1980.
The Executive Director of INFORMS is Mark Doherty . Mr. Doherty joined INFORMS in 1998.
The 2001 INFORMS Board of Directors includes the following members:
Executive Committee
- President
James C. Bean
- President Elect
Michael A. Trick, President, Carnegie Bosch Institute for Applied Studies in International Management, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
- Secretary
Stephen M. Robinson, Professor of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin/Madison, Madison, WI
- Treasurer
Leslie D. Servi, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA
- Past President
John R. Birge, Dean, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science and Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Vice Presidents
- Vice President, Information Technology
Matthew J. Saltzman, Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University; Clemson, SC
- Vice President, Meetings
Paul A. Jensen, Cullen Trust Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX
- Vice President, Subdivisions
Anantaram Balakrishnan, Frank P. and Mary Jean Smeal Chair in Management Science and Information Systems, Pennsylvania State University; University Park, PA
- Vice President, Practice Activities
Brenda Dietrich, Manager, Optimization Center, IBM - T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
- Vice President, Publications
William P. Pierskalla, Professor, Operations and Technology Management, Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
- Vice President, International Activities
Martine Labbé, Professor, Management Science, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
The INFORMS Directors at Large
- Collete R. Coullard, Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
- Nicholas G. Hall, Professor of Management Science, Operations Management, and Industrial Engineering, Department of Management Sciences, Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
- Donna C. Llewellyn, Director for Academic Support, Georgia Institute of Technology, Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, Atlanta, GA
The Director at Large not residing in the US is
- Jan Karel Lenstra, Professor of Combinatorial Optimization, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
The INFORMS Directors Representing Subdivisions
- David F. Rogers, Associate Professor of Quantitative Analysis and Operations Management and Director, Master of Science in Business Administration Program, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
- Dean S. Hartley, U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, TN
- Leon S. Lasdon, David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Chair in Business. Decision Support Systems, Department of Management Science and Information Systems, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
- Kathryn E. Stecke, Associate Professor of Operations Management, University of Michigan School of Business, Ann Arbor, MI
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®) is an international scientific society with 12,000 members, including Nobel Prize laureates, dedicated to applying scientific methods to help improve decision-making, management, and operations. Members of INFORMS work in business, government, and academia. They are represented in fields as diverse as airlines, health care, law enforcement, the military, the stock market, and telecommunications.