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Spring 2015

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Beril Toktay

L. Beril Toktay is Professor of Operations Management, the Brady Family Chairholder and ADVANCE Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology’s Scheller College of Business. Her research focuses on sustainable operations and supply chain management. Professor Toktay has received several National Science Foundation grants for her research, which has appeared in journals such as Management Science, M&SOM, Operations Research, Production and Operations Management and Industrial Ecology. She is Area Editor (Environment, Energy and Sustainability) for Operations Research and serves as Associate Editor for Management Science and M&SOM. She has served as the Co-Editor of the M&SOM Special Issue on the Environment and President of the M&SOM Society. In 2013, Professor Toktay established the Center for Business Strategies for Sustainability, recently renamed the Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business. The Center supports and promotes Scheller faculty and students’ research, education and outreach activities in sustainable business. Professor Toktay holds BS degrees in Industrial Engineering and Mathematics from Bosphorus University, an MS degree in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University and a PhD degree in Operations Research from MIT. Before joining Georgia Tech, she was an Associate Professor of Operations Management at INSEAD. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School.