is the A.C. Buehler Professor and Professor of Operations at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
His research studies service and supply chain operations. He is the author of two
textbooks and over 50 academic
articles published in the leading international journals. He serves on the editorial board of several professional journals and was editor of the operations and supply chain area of
Operations Research. He teaches
courses in operations management and strategy in MBA, Ph.D. and executive programs and advises firms on those topics.
Dr. Van Mieghem received three degrees: ir. in Electrical Engineering from KU Leuven, M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. in Operations, Information and Technology Management from Stanford University. From 2009-2010, he served as one of two Senior Associate Deans at the Kellogg School. From 2006 – 2009, he was chairman of the Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences. From 2011-2017, he served as the Academic Director of the Kellogg Executive MBA program. He is the director of the PhD program in Operations Management and of three non-degree executive programs: Lean Operations, Operations Strategy and Operations Management: Digital Strategy.