RENeW: commencement speech

Dr. Anna Nagurney: Dr. Anna Nagurney is the Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She was appointed to this chaired professorship on April 14, 2021. Prior to this chaired professorship, since 1998, she was the John F. Smith Memorial Professor of Operations Management. She is the Founding Director of the Virtual Center for Supernetworks, which she established in 2001. Professor Nagurney has held positions at Harvard, MIT, Brown University, Oxford University, the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), the University of Gothenburg, and the University of Innsbruck. She is the author/co-author of over 235 journal articles and over a dozen books. Nagurney is regularly sought out by major media outlets because of her expertise on supply chains and networks systems plus policies. She has given many keynote and other invited talks internationally.