Panos Kouvelis

Panos (Panagiotis) Kouvelis is the Emerson Distinguished Professor of Operations and Manufacturing Management and director of the Boeing Center for Supply Chain Innovation at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis. He is best known for his work on supply chain management, supply chain finance, operational excellence, and risk management.https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Panos_Kouvelis
== Early life and education ==
Kouvelis was born in Greece. After graduating from National Technical University of Athens in 1983, he moved to the United States, where he went on to earn his MBA and MS from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. In 1988, he earned his PhD from the Management Science and Engineering department at Stanford University.
== Career ==
Kouvelis served as an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin from 1988 to 1991 and an associate professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business from 1992 to 1997. He visited Washington University in St. Louis from 1996-1997, where he accepted a full professor position in 1997. He was installed as the inaugural Emerson Distinguished Professor of Operations and Manufacturing Management in 2000. Kouvelis served as the senior associate dean and director of executive programs at the Olin Business School from 2009 to 2013, as well as area chair of the Operations and Manufacturing Management department from 2005 to 2009. He has accepted visiting professorships at the WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management, the University of Chicago, and Hong Kong Polytechnic University. 
Kouvelis is an editor for the journals Production & Operations Management and Manufacturing and Service Operations Management,.
== The Boeing Center for Supply Chain Innovation ==
Kouvelis was a founding co-director of The Boeing Center for Technology, Information, and Manufacturing in 1997. He became the director of the center in 2000, and continues to direct it. The center was renamed to The Boeing Center for Supply Chain Innovation (BCSCI) in 2016. 
== Awards and honors ==
* Fellow of POMS Award (2016) - Lifetime achievement award for contributions in the field of operations management, awarded by the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS)
* In a recent OM research productivity study published in Decision Sciences, Kouvelis was ranked:
** #2 - Total number of papers, weighted for co-authorship (Management Science publications included in all departments, with some OM linkage)
** #3 - Total number of papers , weighted for co-authorship (Management Science publications counted only in the OM department)
** #3 - Total number of papers
** #1 - Publications in MSOM
* Top 5 Operations Management Research Ranking (2015) - Ranked as the 5th most productive researcher in the field.
== Press coverage ==
Kouvelis' research and insights have received media coverage in The New York Times, The Washington Posthttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/10/07/hurricane-matthew-is-so-scary-even-waffle-house-is-evacuating/, Bloomberg, FOX Business, ABC News, Inside Supply Management, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, The Kansas City Star, and the Houston Business Journalhttps://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2017/09/25/op-ed-supply-chain-disruptions-from-harvey-to.html, among others.
==In the media==
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== References ==
== External links ==
* ‪Panos Kouvelis‬ - ‪Google Scholar‬
* Panos Kouvelis - Olin Business School - Washington university
* Panos Kouvelis | The Source | Washington University in St Louis
* Panagiotis Kouvelis - dblp
* Panos Kouvelis - Google Scholar Citations
* Panos Kouvelis: Books - Amazon.in
* Panos Kouvelis - EasyChair
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