Christopher S. Tang

Christopher S. Tang
Born August 10, 1957
Hong Kong
Nationality USA
Institution University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Field Operations Management, Supply Chain Management,
Alma mater King's College, London;
Yale University, Yale University
Contributions Supply chain management, Retail Operations, Social Innovations
Awards INFORMS Lifetime Fellow, 2011; POMS Lifetime Fellow, 2011; UCLA (university-wide) Distinguished Teaching Award, 2012

Christopher Tang is a University Distinguished Professor and the holder of the Edward W. Carter Chair in Business Administration at the UCLA Anderson School of Management at University of California, Los Angeles.[1] He received his B.Sc. (First class honours) in Mathematics from King's College London in 1981, M.A. in Statistics in 1983, M.Phil in Administrative Science in 1983, and Ph.D. in Operations Research in 1985 from Yale University.

After working at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York (1983-1985), Tang has been a professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management since 1985. Between 1998-2002, he was the Senior Associate Dean and Chairman of the faculty at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. From 2000 to 2002, he served as Senior Adviser to President Shih Choon Fong of the National University of Singapore. Also, from 2002 to 2004, he served as the Dean of NUS Business School at the National University of Singapore. In 2003, he founded the UCLA-NUS Executive MBA Program that was ranked #4 in the world by Financial Times in 2014.[2]

Tang has published significant work in books, refereed journals, newspapers, and blogs.[3] His research interests including global supply chain management, retail operations, social innovations.[4] He has delivered over 300 lectures world-wide on global supply chain management and social innovations.[5] Being recognized as a leading researcher in Operations Management (Tang is ranked as one of the Top 20 most productive researchers over 50 years (1959-2008)[6] and ranked as one of the stellar operations management researchers, 2009 [7]), Tang was elected as a lifetime fellow of The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences INFORMS in 2011 [8] and a lifetime fellow of Production and Operations Management Society POMS in 2011.[9]

In 2014, Tang served as President of Production and Operations Management Society.[10] Currently, he is the Editor-in-Chief of Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (Journal).[11]

At the UCLA Anderson School of Management, Tang teaches Supply Chain Management and Operations Management to MBA and Executive MBA students.[12] He has won the CitiBank Best teaching Award in 1996; Neidorf Best Instructor of the decade in 1999; Teaching Excellence Award for the UCLA-NUS Executive MBA Program in 2005, 2009, 2012, and 2013.[13] Also, he received the UCLA (university-wide) Distinguished Teaching Award in 2012.[14]

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