Laoucine Kerbache

Laoucine Kerbache holds a Ph.D., an M.Sc, and a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (USA), an "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches" from the University of Nantes (France), and a diploma of International Teacher Program (IMD-Lausanne, Switzerland).

Laoucine Kerbache is Dean and CEO of HEC Paris Qatar. He has been teaching (undergraduate, MBA, and executive programs), researching and consulting in the field of operations and supply chain management, logistics, and applied quantitative methods for more than twenty five years.

He has been supervising several Master and Ph.D. dissertations on optimization in operations and supply chain management.

He has published numerous papers in international journals such as: Marketing Science, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Economics, International Transactions of Operational Research, Computers and Operations Research, Annals of Operations Research, Journal of Mathematical Modeling and Algorithms, IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, IEEE Transactions, Material Flows, Interfaces, Gestion 2000, Santé et Systémique, etc. He is the co-author of Management Industriel et Logistique: Conception and Pilotage de la Supply Chain, 4th Edition (2005) and 5th Edition (2007), Economica, France.

He has been teaching in different countries and acted as consultant to various companies and to many international organizations in designing MBA programs and executive management development courses. He has also held various management positions in the academic environment. He is currently a Visiting Professor at ESADE (Spain).

EDUCATION

• 2000 Habilitation a diriger des recherches (Qualified Research Supervisor), Operations Management, Université de Nantes - France
• 1984 Ph.D. in IEOR, Massachusetts University - USA
• 1981 Master of Science in IEOR, Massachusetts University - USA
• 1979 Engineer in IEOR, Massachusetts University - USA

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Academic responsabilities at HEC

• 2013-2016 CEO and Academic Dean, HEC Paris in Qatar HEC Paris
• 2008-2012 Associate Dean Director of the HEC PhD Program HEC Paris
• 2009- Professor HEC Paris
• 2000-2009 Associate Professor HEC Paris
• 2007- Directeur académique du programme International Railways Strategic Management Institute (IRSMI) HEC Paris
• 2004- Member of GREG HEC, the joint research laboratory CNRS-HEC Paris HEC Paris Academic Director, MS HEC Management de la supply chain - Logistique globale et achats internationaux HEC Paris In charge of HEC Academic Activities at the ESAA at Alger HEC Paris

External Academic Responsabilities

• 1999-2000 Director of Pedagogy ESC Rennes

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Membership in Academic or Professional Organisation

• Member, INFORMS
• Research Committee Member, European Logistics Association (ELA), Brussels
• Member, AIM
• RDE CEMS
• Institut Doctoral Paris Tech

Editorial activities

• Referee for IIE Transactions, European Journal of Operational Research, Annals of Operations Research, Computers and Operations Research, Computers and Industrial Engineering, Interfaces, IEEE Transactions on Automation and Cybernetics, International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Management Mathematics, etc...

Conference organisation

• 2001- Organizer of IFG Logistics seminar (CEMS) (in coll. with A. Garreau)
• 1999 and 2000 - Organizer of International Annual Conference, Network of International Business Schools (NIBS), Rennes

AWARDS & HONORS

• 1979 1979 Valedictorian (IEOR)
• 1979 Alpha Pi Mu (Industrial Engineering Honor Society)
• 1979 Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society)