Professor Jeannette Song is a Professor and Area Coordinator in Operations Management of the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. Her main research interests lie in the areas of supply chain management and operations management. Topics include supply chain logistics and coordination, supply-chain and outsourcing structures, multi-sourcing, impact of e-commerce, Vendor Managed Inventory programs, forecasting and inventory planning, Assemble-to-Order systems, delivery time quotation, and reverse logistics. She has published numerous articles in leading academic journals such as Management Science and Operations Research. Professor Song is the recipient of several research grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation. In 2003, she was awarded Distinguished Overseas Young Scholar by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. In 2009, she was named the Chang Jiang Scholar by the Ministry of Education, China. Professor Song is currently an Area Editor for Operations Research in the Manufacturing, Service and Supply Chain Operations area. In the past, she has served as a Department Editor for IIE Transactions as well as associate editors for Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and Naval Research Logistics. She is also a Past President of the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society of INFORMS.

Professor Song received a Ph.D. from Columbia University, a M.S. from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a B.S. from Beijing Normal University. Before joining Duke University, she served on the faculties of University California, Irvine and Columbia University, and held a visiting position at the University of California, Berkeley. In the past decade or so, she has been actively involved in advising Chinese companies and universities, and held various visiting appointments in Chinese universities.