Benjamin Lev
Benjamin Lev served as the last TIMS Vice President of Meetings (1993-1994) and the first INFORMS Vice President of Meeting (1995-1996). Elected as INFORMS Fellow in 2003. Lev was General Co-Chair of ORSA/TIMS, Philadelphia 1990, INFORMS International, Tel-Aviv 1998, IFORS, Edinburgh 2002, ALIO-INFORMS International, Buenos Aires, 2010 Conferences. Lev received degrees in mechanical and industrial engineering from Technion Israel Institute of Technology prior to pursuing a PhD at Case Western Reserve University. After earning his doctorate, Lev joined the Department of Management at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Lev left Temple to head the Management Department of Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1987. After three years, he moved to the University of Michigan-Dearborn to become Dean of its School of Management. Lev has been with Drexel University in Philadelphia since 2009 as Head of Decision Sciences and was named a Trustee Professor in 2014. As a Co-Author/Co-Editor he published nine books and many papers. Since 2002, he has been the Editor-in-Chief of Omega - the International Journal of Management Science. He is on the Editorial Board of 10 journals.