He also holds the Desautels Faculty Chair and Quebec Teaching Chair positions in the faculty. He is Associate Editor for the journals Manufacturing & Service Operations Management and IIE Transactions and is currently co-editing a special issue on global supply chain risk management. His main research interests are supply chain risk management; coordination/competition/pricing issues in supply chains; time-based competition; capacity and inventory management; design of customized supply chains; reverse logistics; and dynamic pricing. He holds a PhD in Applied Operations Research from the University of Waterloo.