Saif Benjaafar is an internationally renowned leader in the field of operations management and supply chains.

Saif is currently the Goff Smith Co-Director of the Tauber Institute for Global Operations, a joint institute of the Ross School of Business and the College of Engineering, at the University of Michigan, where he is also the Seth Bonder Collegiate Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Prior to joining the University of Michigan, Saif was McKnight Presidential Endowed Professor and Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota, where he led the effort to establish the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering. He is a founding member of the Singapore University of Technology and Design and served as Pillar Head (at the rank of Dean) of Engineering Systems and Design.

Saif has broad research interests in operations management (supply chains, service systems, and markets), with current research at the intersection of innovative business models and technology, including platforms, sharing economy, on-demand services, and autonomy.

Saif is a Fellow of INFORMS, MSOM, and IISE and a former Editor-in-Chief of the INFORMS journal Service Science.