The Committee of Professors in Operational Research is structured as below, drawing on expertise from all over the UK.
Chair: Nadia Papamichail (University of Manchester)
Secretary: Navonil Mustafee (University of Exeter Business School)
Current Members:
| Name | Institution |
| Aktas, Emel | Cranfield University |
| Aliev, Iskander | Cardiff University |
| Alpern, Steve | Warwick Business School |
| Anjos, Miguel F | University of Edinburgh |
| Appa, Gautam | London School of Economics |
| Archibald, Thomas | University of Edinburgh |
| Battarra, Maria | University of Bath |
| Beasley, John | Brunel University |
| Bedford, Tim | University of Strathclyde |
| Belton, Val | University of Strathclyde |
| Bennell, Julia | University of Leeds |
| Brailsford, Sally | University of Southampton |
| Branke, Juergen | Warwick Business School |
| Bryant, James | Sheffield Hallam University |
| Bunn, Derek | London Business School |
| Burke, Edmund | Bangor University |
| Calabrese, Raffaella | University of Edinburgh |
| Chapman, Chris | University of Southampton |
| Chaussalet, Thierry | University of Westminster |
| Checkland, Peter | Lancaster University |
| Chen, Bo | Warwick Business School |
| Cheng, Russell | University of Southampton |
| Crook, Jonathan | University of Edinburgh |
| Currie, Christine | University of Southampton |
| Dangerfield, Brian | Loughborough University |
| Demir, Emrah | Cardiff University |
| Dempster, M.A. | University of Cambridge |
| Disney, Stephen | University of Exeter |
| Dyson, Robert | Warwick Business School |
| Eden, Colin | University of Strathclyde |
| Edwards, John | Aston University |
| Eglese, Richard | Lancaster University |
| Emrouznejad, Ali | University of Surrey |
| Erdogan, Gunes | University of Bath |
| Ehrgott, Matthias | Lancaster University |
| Fildes, Robert | Lancaster University |
| Fliege, Jörg | University of Southampton |
| Franco, Alberto | University of Bristol |
| Gartner, Daniel | Cardiff University |
| Glass, Celia | Bayes Business School |
| Glazebrook, Kevin | Lancaster University |
| Griffiths, Jeff | Cardiff University |
| Gulpinar, Nalan | Durham University |
| Harper, Paul | Cardiff University |
| Harris, Nick | Defence Science and Technology Lab (GOV) |
| Hatami-Marbini, Adel | University of Huddersfield |
| Hollier, Bob | University of Manchester |
| Howick, Susan | University of Strathclyde |
| Ishizaka, Alessio | University of Portsmouth |
| Jiang, Houyuan | University of Cambridge |
| Jones, Owen | Cardiff University |
| Jones, Sarah | Warwick University |
| Katsikopoulos, Konstantinos | University of Southampton |
| Kelly, Frank | University of Cambridge |
| King, Malcolm | Loughborough University |
| Kobbacy, Khairy | University of Salford |
| Kunc, Martin | University of Southampton |
| Labib, Ashraf | University of Portsmouth |
| Lane, David | Henley Business School |
| Laporte, Gilbert | University of Bath |
| Letchford, Adam | Lancaster University |
| Liu, Jiyin | Loughborough University |
| Lulli, Guglielmo | Lancaster University |
| MacBryde, Jillian | Strathclyde University |
| MacCarthy, Bart | University of Nottingham |
| Meade, Nigel | Imperial College London |
| Midgley, Gerald | Hull University |
| Mingers, John | University of Kent |
| Montibeller, Gilberto | University of Bristol |
| Morton, Alec | University of Strathclyde |
| Mustafee, Navonil | University of Exeter |
| Nikolopoulos, Kostas | Durham University |
| O’Hanley, Jesse | University of Kent |
| O’Keefe, Bob | Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Onkal, Dilek | Northumbria Univerity |
| Ouelhadj, Djamila | University of Portsmouth |
| Ozcan, Ender | University of Nottingham |
| Pagel, Christina | University College London |
| Papamichail, Nadia | University of Manchester |
| Petropoulos, Fotios | University of Bath |
| Petrovic, Dobrila | Coventry University |
| Petrovic, Sanja | Nottingham University |
| Pidd, Michael | Lancaster University |
| Pinson, Pierre | Imperial College London |
| Podinovski, Victor | Loughborough University |
| Potts, Chris | University of Southampton |
| Quigley, John | University of Strathclyde |
| Revie, Matthew | University of Strathclyde |
| Robinson, Stewart | Newcastle University |
| Rosenhead, Jonathan | London School of Economics |
| Rossi, Roberto | University of Edinburgh |
| Rostami-Tabar, Bahman | Cardiff University |
| Saldanha da Gama, Francisco | Sheffield University |
| Salhi, Said | University of Kent |
| Scaparra, Maria Paola | Kent Business School |
| Scarf, Phillip | Cardiff University |
| Sgalambro, Antonino | University of Leeds |
| Sharp, J A | University of Kent |
| Shaw, Duncan | University of Manchester |
| Sorkin, Gregory | London School of Economics |
| Strusevich, Vitaly | University of Greenwich |
| Syntetos, Aris | Cardiff University |
| Tako, Antuela | Nottingham Trent University |
| Thanassoulis, Emmanuel | Aston University |
| Tsinopoulos, Christos | Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Vasilakis, Christos | University of Bath |
| Végh, László | London School of Economics |
| Walls, Lesley | University of Strathclyde |
| Walton, Neil | Durham University |
| Wenbin Liu, Steve | University of Kent |
| White, Leroy | University of Exeter |
| Williams, Julian | Durham University |
| Williams, Paul | London School of Economics |
| Williams, Terry | Hull University |
| Wright, Mike | Lancaster University |
| Wu, Shaomin | Kent Business School |
| Xie, Ying | Cranfield University |
| Yang, Jian-Bo | University of Manchester |
| Yearworth, Mike | University of Exeter |
| Zografos, Konstantinos | Lancaster University |
Former Chairs, Secretaries, and Treasurers
2023-2025: Kostas Nikolopoulos (Chair), Emel Aktas (Secretary)
2018-2022: Sanja Petrovic (Chair), Aris Syntetos (Secretary), Djamila Ouelhadj (Treasurer)
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