Paolo Letizia

Paolo Letizia is an Associate Professor of Business Analytics and a Ray and Joan Myatt Faculty Research Fellow, at the Department of Business Analytics and Statistics of the Haslam College of Business, University of Tennessee. His research interests lie in the areas of Sustainable Operations, Closed Loop Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Channel Design, and Role of Information in a Supply Chain. Paolo’s work has been published among the others in the journals Management Science, Production and Operations Management, Decision Sciences, and European Journal of Operational Research. He has chaired the track of Environmental Operations and organized several sessions on Sustainable Operations at conferences such as INFORMS and POMS. Paolo is also on the editorial review boards of leading operations management journals. Prior to joining the University of Tennessee, Paolo taught Operations and Supply Chain Management at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. Paolo holds a M.Sc. in Supply Chain Management from Bordeaux Business School and a Ph.D. with dual degree in Operations Research and Business Administration from the Pennsylvania State University, Smeal College of Business. Before starting his academic career, he was employed by the consulting firm Accenture, and worked on projects in Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, and Customer Relationship Management.

Education

• Ph.D. Penn State University (2007 — 2012)
• M.Sc. KEDGE Business School (2005 — 2006)
• B.E. Università di Pavia (1995 — 2001)

Companies

• Associate Professor of Business Analyitics Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee (2021)
• Assistant Professor of Business Analytics Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee (2015 — 2021)
• Assistant Professor of Operations Management Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (2012 — 2015)
• Research Assistant INSEAD (2006 — 2007)
• Senior Consultant in Supply Chain Management Accenture (2002 — 2006)
• Research Assistant ETH Zurich (2000 — 2001)