Dr. Ricardo Ernst Professor, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University Washington, District of Columbia
Dr. Ricardo Ernst was born in Venezuela on January 9, 1959. He is a professor at the McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University. He holds a civil engineering degree from the Universidad Catolica Andres Bello and a master's in business administration from the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración, both in Venezuela. Dr. Ernst received a graduate degree and his doctorate in operations management from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He is currently the co-director of the Global Logistics Research Program at Georgetown University School of Business.
Dr. Ernst has consulted with several national and international firms, including General Motors, CASE Corporation, Fairchild Industries, Fritz Companies and The World Bank. His contributions have appeared in several journals and his research interests include strategic analysis of logistics systems at both macro and micro levels. He is the co-author of a book on Global Operations and Logistics (John Wiley and Sons 1998) which includes an innovative framework as well as a series of cases from Europe, Asia, the U.S. and Latin America. Dr. Ernst is a member of INFORMS, Council of Logistics Management, POMS, and APICS, and is in the Editorial Review Board of Production and Operations Management and the Journal of Global Information Management.