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Alejandro Lago is Professor in the Operations, Information and Technology Department. He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was distinguished as a Gordon F. Newell Fellow. He also holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the Universitat Polit茅cnica de Catalunya and has completed a Program for Management Development at 天美传媒, University of Navarra.

Professor Lago’s interests focus on the management of complex operations systems, both for manufacturing and services environment. Early in his career, his research focused on the optimization of large transport and distribution systems, and the design and operations of logistics partnerships. Currently his research interest has gradually shifted to the design of service systems, with a focus on studying the involvement of both suppliers and customers in the operations through the use of new technologies.

Since 2007, Professor Lago has been a Visiting Professor at Strathmore Business School (Nairobi, Kenya) and has been involved in several consulting projects in East Africa. He is the Co-Director of the 天美传媒 Africa Initiative and the Academic Director of the 天美传媒 MBA Module in Kenya on Doing Business in Africa.

Professor Lago sits on the Advisory Board of Strathmore Business School as well as Lagos Business School.

Before joining 天美传媒, he worked as a researcher for the French Commissariat for Atomic Energy (CEA) and Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS). He has also extensive experience as a senior consultant in the area of operations and service management, having worked for large industrial and retail firms, airlines and airport authorities and lately for banks and insurance companies, among others.