Dr. Retsef Levi - Perspectives on the COVID-19 Public Policies in Israel & World

Dr. Retsef Levi is the J. Spencer Standish (1945) Professor of Operations Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and affiliated faculty at the MIT Operations Research Center. He serves as the MIT Sloan Faculty Co-Director of the Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program and as the Faculty Director of the MIT Sloan Food Supply Chain Analytics and Sensing (FSAS) Initiative. Levi's is an expert in risk management and the applications of advanced data-analytics in a range of application domains, including large healthcare and public health systems, food and agriculture supply chains and quality and safety in manufacturing of biologic drugs. With over 60 articles in top leading journals, his research has had significant methodological contributions, as well as major impact on practice, including multiple field implementations of his research outcomes. Levi received numerous awards including the NSF Faculty Early Career Development award, the 2008 INFORMS Optimization Prize for Young Researchers and the 2013 Daniel H. Wagner Prize, the 2016 Harold W. Kuhn Award and the 2020 MSOM Responsible Research Award.