Sunil Chopra is the IBM Distinguished Professor of Operations Management and Information Systems at the Kellogg School of Management。He iS also the Codirector of the Masters of Management and Manufacturing program，a Joint dual。degree program between the Kellogg School of Management and the McCormick School of Engineefing at Northwestern University。He has a PhD in Operations Research from SUNY at Stony Brook。Prior to ioining Kellogg，he taught at New York University and spent a year at IBM Research。
Professor Chopra’S research and teaching interests are in supply chain and logistics management，operations management，and the design of telecommuni-cation networks。He has won severaI teaching awards at the MBA and Executive programs of Kellogg。He has authored more than 35 papers and two books。
He has been a Department Editor for Management Science and an Associate Editor for Manu~,,turing＆Service Operations Management。Operations Research，and Decision Sciences Journal。His recent research has focused on supply chain risk to understand sources of risk and devise mitigation strategies that buffer risk effectively at 10W cost。He has also consulted for several firms in the area of supply chain and operations management。
