Jaume Ribera is professor of Operations Management at IESE Business School at the University of Navarra and holds the Novartis Chair on Operational Excellence in Healthcare. He served as deputy dean of faculty at IESE Business School from 1993–2001. Professor Ribera is the president of the European Operations Management Association and was formerly secretary of the US Operations Management Association (1992–1997). He serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Operations and Production Management and the Harvard Business Review China. His current research interests lie in the areas of operations improvement management, health systems management and project management. He has published teaching materials (case studies, technical reports, and electronic workbooks), academic research (Transportation Science, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, etc.) and casebooks and textbooks on these topics.

Professor Ribera has been active in consultancy in supply chain management and project management and has extensive experience of working with private and public companies in different sectors (textile, pharmaceutical, automotive, electrical components, etc.) He has also participated as a consultant and project manager in health sector management projects in the European Union, Central, and Eastern Europe, and South America with private, public, European Union, and World Bank financing.

He earned a master’s degree in Operations Research and Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematical Systems Theory from the University of Florida. He later earned a second Doctor of Philosophy in Industrial Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, where he holds a joint appointment as an associate professor.