Laoucine Kerbache is currently serving as professor and a founding faculty member of the Engineering Management and Decision Sciences Division at Hamad bin Khalifa University in Doha, Qatar. Further, he has been a professor of operations and supply chain management at HEC Paris in France for the last 22 years. For over 30 years of academic, research and consulting activities, he has been very active in his areas of expertise: operations and supply chain management. Kerbache has published over 100 papers in international journals. He has a PhD, MSc and BSc in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, US.