Dr. John Charnes is Director of the Finance, Economics, and Decision Sciences Area in the University of Kansas School of Business.  Professor Charnes has taught courses in computer simulation, statistics, operations, quality management, and finance in the business schools of the University of Miami (Florida), University of Washington (Seattle), University of Minnesota (Minneapolis), and Hamline University (St. Paul).

He has published papers on simulation, statistics, and other topics in Financial Analysts Journal, The American Statistician, Management Science, Decision Sciences, Computers and Operation Research, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Journal of Business Logistics, and Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference.  Prof. Charnes has performed research, consulting, and executive education for more than fifty corporations and other organizations in Kansas, Missouri, Washington, Minnesota, and Florida.

Professor Charnes holds the Ph.D. (1989), MBA (1983), and Bachelor of Civil Engineering (1980) degrees from the University of Minnesota.  Before earning his doctorate, he worked as a surveyor, draftsman, field engineer, and quality-control engineer on numerous construction projects in Minnesota, Iowa, and Maryland.

He currently serves as President of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) College on Simulation, and is Program Chair for the 2002 Winter Simulation Conference.

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