His research focuses on pushing the frontier of supply chain management through collaborations with commercial firms including Amazon, Dell, Zara, IBM and global health organizations including the World Bank, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, the Millennium Villages Project and the Global Fund. He serves on the editorial boards of the journals Management Science, Operations Research and Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. He is a native of France but has been living in the United States and Great Britain since 1996. He holds a PhD in Operations Research from MIT and an Engineering Degree from the École des Mines de Paris.