Paulo Gonçalves

Paulo Gonçalves is Professor of Management at USI and Director of the Humanitarian Operations Group. He is a Fellow at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School (CJBS) and former Research Affiliate at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

His research combines System Dynamics Simulation, Behavioral Experiments and Econometrics to understand how managers make decisions in humanitarian settings. Currently, he has been developing supply chain experiments to understand and improve managerial decisions in humanitarian operations.

He holds a Ph.D. in Management Science from MIT Sloan and a M.Sc. from MIT. Prior to USI, prof. Gonçalves held appointments at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the University of Miami Graduate School of Business.

While at Sloan, Paulo worked with Intel’s Strategic Capacity group as an Intel scholar. For his work, he has received the Intel Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Award (2003-2004). For his dissertation, he has won the 2004 Doctoral dissertation award given annually by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP).

Education

• Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management (1997 — 2003)
• M.Sc. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1995 — 1997)
• M.Sc. Universidade de São Paulo (1993 — 1995)
• B.S. Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica - ITA (1988 — 1992)
• Escola Maria Imaculada (1984 — 1985)

Companies

• President System Dynamics Society, Inc. (2021)
• Fellow Cambridge Judge Business School (2020)
• Board Member Swiss Global Relief (2019)
• Director CSART - Computer Simulation & Advanced Research Technologies Ltd. (2019)
• Founder & Director Master in Humanitarian Logistics and Management University of Lugano (2008 — 2020)
• President Elect System Dynamics Society, Inc. (2020 — 2020)
• Research Affiliate MIT Sloan School of Management (2008 — 2020)
• Founder & Director Master in Supply Chain Management & Operations USI Università della Svizzera italiana (2012 — 2018)
• Co-Founder & CEO SwissLeg (2014 — 2018)

Research

He holds a Ph.D. in Management Science from MIT Sloan and a M.Sc. from MIT. Prior to USI, prof. Gonçalves held appointments at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the University of Miami Graduate School of Business.

While at Sloan, Paulo worked with Intel’s Strategic Capacity group as an Intel scholar. For his work, he has received the Intel Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Award (2003-2004). For his dissertation, he has won the 2004 Doctoral dissertation award given annually by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP).