ManMohan S. Sodhi

Professor Sodhi is a professor in operations and supply chain at the Bayes Business School. He is also an elected lifelong Fellow of the Production and Operations Management Society, and Fellow of the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications and the Operational Research Society. His research interests lie in supply chain management, in particular in supply chain risk and in supply chain sustainability in a variety of sectors including agriculture, airlines, chemicals, electronics, and humanitarian relief. He also works in healthcare operations with NHS hospitals. His work includes case studies on companies as diverse as Boeing and Samsung Electronics and humanitarian relief following the disastrous 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Prior to joining Bayes Business School (formerly Cass) in 2002, he worked in a startup in Silicon Valley and in management consulting, including at Accenture, and has worked with clients in many sectors.

He is currently Senior Editor for Production and Operations Management (POM) journal. He has published in numerous academic and managerial journals, including Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Operations Research, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Operations Management, Harvard Business Review, and Sloan Management Review.

Prof. Sodhi received his Ph.D. in management science from the UCLA Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1994. Subsequently, he taught operations management at the University of Michigan, Ross Business School, where the Sloan Foundation funded his research in the trucking industry. Prof. Sodhi also had a visiting position at the Indian School of Business (ISB) as the Founding Executive Director of the Munjal Global Manufacturing Institute.

Experience

  • –present
    Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management, City, University of London

Education

  •  
    University of California, Los Angeles, PhD

Professional Memberships

  • Fellow, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
  • INFORMS
  • POM
  • The OR Society

Honours

(Elected) Fellow, Production and Operations Management Soctiey; Fellow, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA); and Fellow, OR Society (FORS)

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