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Anna Nagurney

Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies | PhD Coordinator in Operations Management | Director, Virtual Center for Supernetworks

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Anna Nagurney is the Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Director of the Virtual Center for Supernet

Anna Nagurney is the Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Director of the Virtual Center for Supernetworks, which she founded in 2001. She holds Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Arts, Masters of Science, and PhD degrees from Brown University in Providence, RI.  Anna is a member of the Board of Directors of the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) in Ukraine and also serves on its International Academic Board. She is the author/editor of 17 books, more than 240 refereed journal articles, and over 50 book chapters. Anna is an active member of professional societies, including INFORMS, the OR Society, POMS, the Network Science Society, and RSAI.

Anna's research focuses on network systems from transportation and logistical ones, including supply chains, to financial, economic, social networks and their integration, along with the Internet. She studies and models complex behaviors on networks with a goal towards providing frameworks and tools for understanding their structure, performance, resilience, and security, and the impacts of policies,  and has contributed also to the understanding of the Braess paradox in transportation networks and the Internet. She has also conducted research on sustainability and quality issues with applications ranging from pharmaceutical and blood supply chains to perishable food products and fast fashion as well as humanitarian logistics. Anna has advanced methodological tools used in game theory, network theory, equilibrium analysis, and dynamical systems.

Education

PhD, Brown University
ScM, Brown University
ScB, Brown University
AB, Brown University

Conference Program Committee

Optimization, Analytics, and Decisions in the Big Data Era In Honor of the 70-the Birthday of Panos Pardalos, Halkidiki, Greece, June 16-21, 2024
1st Virtual Conference on Ukraine, Jonkoping, Sweden, August 22-23, 2024
2nd Virtual Conference on Ukraine, Stockholm, Sweden, August 22-23, 2025

Professional Experience

Conference Co-organizer, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th International Conference on Dynamics of Disasters, Kalamata, Greece; 6th Conference, Piraeus, Greece, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021 (virtual), 2023
Guest Professor, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria, 3/2013
Instructor, Office of Continuing Executive Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2009
Conference Organizer, Humanitarian Logistics: Networks for Africa, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Lake Como, Italy, 3/2008
Fulbright Distinguished Faculty Chair in Economics, SOWI Business School, University of Innsbruck, Austria, 3/2002-7/2002

Academic Appointments

Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts, 2021-Present
Co-Chair, Board of Directors, Kyiv School of Economics, Kyiv Ukraine, 2022-present
Board of Directors, Kyiv School of Economics, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2020-Present
International Academic Board, Kyiv School of Economics, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2018-Present
Director - Virtual Center for Supernetworks, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts (https://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/), 2001-Present
John F. Smith Memorial Professor, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts, 1998-2021
Summer Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, 2017 & 2018
Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford University, Oxford, England, 2015-2016 Trinity Term
Visiting Professor Operations Management, School of Business, Economics and Law, Gothenburg University, Sweden, 2012, 2013, 2014
Science Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, 2005-2006

Recent Honors / Awards

Purdue Engineering Distinguished Lecture, 2026
Named a Fellow of the Operational Research (OR) Society – United Kingdom, 2025
INFORMS President’s Award, 2025
Blackett Lecture, delivered at the Royal Society, in London, England, December 5, 2024
IFORS Distinguished Lecturer, CLAIO 2022, Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 2022
Harold Larnder Prize, awarded annually by the Canadian Operational Research Society to an individual who has achieved international distinction in operational research, 2020
Constantin Caratheodory Prize of the International Society of Global Optimization, awarded at WCGO 2019, July 8-10, in Metz, France (Biannual Award), 2019
Network Science Society Fellow, Elected in 2019
INFORMS Volunteer Service Award for Distinguished Service., 2016
University Medal, University of Catania, Italy, 2014
INFORMS Fellow, elected for outstanding lifetime achievement in operations research and the management sciences, 2013
Notable Computing Article Published in 2013 – ACM Computing Reviews, 2013
Elected to the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2013
Walter Isard Award for distinguished scholar achievements in Regional Science, 2012
Spotlight Scholar Award, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2012
Research Excellence Award, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2011-2012
Certificate of Appreciation, 65th Public Affairs Operations Center, Massachusetts\Army National Guard, 2012
Jane F. Garvey Transportation Leadership Award from the Institute of Transportation Engineers, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2011
Certificate in Appreciation of Outstanding Service INFORMS Northeastern Regional Conference, 2011
The Ernst & Young Inclusive Excellence Award for Accounting and Business School Faculty, 2010

Research Interests

Transportation and Logistics
Perishable Product Supply Chains
Food and Agricultural Supply Chains
Tariffs and Trade
Sustainability and Food Security
Network Systems
Humanitarian Logistics and Disaster Management
Cybersecurity
War Risk and Cyber Insurance

Teaching Interests

Doctoral
  • Management Science
Masters
  • Logistics and Transportation
  • Humanitarian Logistics and Healthcare
Undergraduate
  • Logistics and Transportation
Professor Anna Nagurney has published multiple articles in The Conversation. She has had media appearances on TV and radio, including podcasts. She has been interviewed for articles in: The New York T

Professor Anna Nagurney has published multiple articles in The Conversation. She has had media appearances on TV and radio, including podcasts. She has been interviewed for articles in: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, the Associated Press, The Boston Globe, BBC, Al-Jazeera, among other news outlets.

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Selected Publications

Recent Books:

Anna Nagurney, Labor and Supply Chain Networks,  Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2023. 

Ilias S. Kotsireas, Anna Nagurney, Panos M. Pardalos, Stefan Wolfgang Pickl, and Chrysafis Vogiatzis, Editors, Dynamics of Disasters - From Natural Phenomena to Human Activity, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2024. 

Recent Journal Articles:

Anna Nagurney, Samira Samadi, and Deniz Besik, Fresh Produce Spatial Price Equilibrium on General Networks: Capturing Commodity Quality Deterioration through Endogenous Transportation Time Delay Functions with Capacities, European Journal of Operational Research (2026), 334(1), 247-270. 

Anna Nagurney, NetwORks and Policies: OR to the Rescue, Journal of the Operational Research Society (2026), 77(2), 656-671.

Gabriella Colajanni, Patrizia Daniele, Anna Nagurney, and Daniele Sciacca, A Multitiered Framework for Competitive Flexible Production Value Networks under Environmental Regulations, European Journal of Operational Research (2026), 333(1), 67-87. 

Anna Nagurney and Samira Samadi, Ad Valorem Tariffs in Global Supply Chain Networks and Impacts on Labor, Journal of the Operational Research Society (2025)

Dana Hassani, Anna Nagurney, Oleg Nivievskyi, Pavlo Martyshev, A Multiperiod, Multicommodity, Capacitated International Agricultural Trade Network Equilibrium Model with Applications to Ukraine in Wartime, Transportation Science (2025), 59(1), 143-164.  https://doi.org/10.1287/trsc.2023.0294

Deniz Besik and Anna Nagurney, Multicommodity Fresh Produce Trade Networks with Quality Deterioration under Congestion and Transportation Capacities, Journal of Global Optimization (2025)

Anna Nagurney, Dana Hassani, Oleg Nivievskyi, and Pavlo Martyshev, Multicommodity International Agricultural Trade Network Equilibrium: Competition for Limited Production and Transportation Capacity under Disaster Scenarios with Implications for Food Security, European Journal of        Operational Research (2024), 314(1), 1127-1142.

Laura A. Albert, Annunziata Esposito Amideo , Julia Bennell, Sally Brailsford, Paula Carroll,Ruth Kaufman, Katherine Kent, Kathy Kotiadis, Martin Kunc, Anna Nagurney, Frances O’Brien, Graham Rand, and M. Grazia Speranza, Commentary on Carroll & Esposito Amideo “Gender Equality: Opportunities and challenges for the OR community," Journal of the Operational Research Society (2024), 75(6), 1030–1042.