Roland Van Dierdonck

Professor and Dean of Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School

Roland Van Dierdonck is Civil and Industrial Engineer (Ghent University) and Doctor in Business Administration, Harvard University (USA).  He was an assistant-professor at IMD, Lausanne, visiting research scholar at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (USA) and visiting professor at INSEAD (France) and Rotterdam School of Management (the Netherlands) and various other schools and universities.  He is also professor of Ghent University.  His main research interests are supply chain management, manufacturing strategy and service operations management. He has published books, including Services management: an integrated approach, Operations Management: Crossing Borders and Boundaries.