Lama Moussawi
Professor of Management Science at the Suliman S. Olayan School of Business (OSB) at the American University of Beirut (AUB)
Lama Moussawi is a tenured Professor of Management Science at the Suliman S. Olayan School of Business (OSB) at the American University of Beirut (AUB). Lama earned her Ph.D. in Management Science from the University of Texas at Dallas and is currently the Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development. She served as the director and co-founder of the Center for Inclusive Business and Leadership for Women where she led many U.S.-funded grants focusing on women’s economic empowerment in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. She served as the Interim Director of the Master of Science in Business Analytics program at OSB and has received the OSB’s award for leadership, social impact, and innovation. Her research focuses on developing applications of Operations Research for various business areas including inventory, supply chain, and revenue management. Lama is on the editorial board of many prestigious international journals in the field. She has been repeatedly invited as a speaker at several international conferences including the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and Wilson Center’s Middle East Program. She is the founding chair and director of the Women in Data Science at AUB (WiDS @AUB) program and serves on the advisory board of WiDS Worldwide.