" Operational Risk in Financial Services "
by Michael PINEDO

Speaker: Michael PINEDO Julius Schlesinger Professor of Operations Management & Chair of the Department of Information, Operations and Management Sciences at the Stern School of Business, New York University <<	Date:		14 July 2009 (Tuesday)
	Venue:		Seminar Room 3.1 School of Information Systems Singapore Management University
	Programme:		6.30 pm - 7.00 pm Registration
			7.00 pm - 8.00 pm Seminar Delivery
			8.00 pm - 8.30 pm Q&A
			8.30 pm Refreshments
	Registration:		For external visitors, please register here.

About the Speaker

Michael Pinedo received the Ir. degree in mechanical engineering from the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands in 1973 and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Operations Research from the University of California at Berkeley in 1978.

He is the Julius Schlesinger Professor of Operations Management and Chair of the department of Information, Operations and Management Sciences at the Stern School of Business at New York University. From 1982 to 1997 he taught in the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research department at Columbia University. He taught at the Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas (Caracas) from 1978 to 1980  and at the Georgia Institute of  Technology from 1980 to 1982. His research  focuses on  the modeling of  production and service systems, and more specifically, on the planning and  scheduling of these systems. 

He has written or  jointly written  numerous  technical papers on these topics.  He  is the  author of the books  "Scheduling: Theory, Algorithms and Systems'' (with Prentice-Hall),  and  "Planning and Scheduling  in Manufacturing and Services'' (with Springer), coauthor of "Queueing Networks: Customers, Signals and Product Form Solutions'' (with Wiley), and co-editor of "Creating Value in Financial Services: Strategies, Operations, and Technologies" (with Kluwer).

Over the last two decades he has been involved in industrial systems development. He supervised the design, development and implementation of two planning and scheduling systems for the International Paper Company. He also actively participated in the development of systems at Philips Electronics, Siemens, and at Merck.

He is Editor of Journal of Scheduling (Wiley). He has been an area editor of Operations Research (covering stochastic processes) and a department editor of IIE Scheduling and Logistics (covering scheduling). He is currently associate editor of Management Science, associate editor of Naval Research Logistics, department editor of Production and Operations Management, and associate editor  of Manufacturing and Services  Operations Management.