Jayashankar (Jay) Swaminathan is the GlaxoSmithKline Distinguished Professor of Global Operations. An internationally recognized thought leader on productivity and innovation in business operations, he is an inducted Fellow of The Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society (MSOM) and Production and Operations Management Society (POMS). Dr. Swaminathan has published more than 70 scholarly journal articles and is the author of the edited volume “Indian Economic Superpower: Fiction or Future?” and co-author of the edited volume “Responsible Operations”. He currently serves as a Department Editor for Management Science and Production and Operations Management journals. He teaches courses on operations, global supply chain management, technology and value chain innovation in graduate and executive programs and has consulted with numerous firms over the last 30 years.
Dr. Swaminathan has received numerous awards for his research, teaching and service, including the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, George Nicholson Prize, Schwabacher Fellowship, Kenan Institute Distinguished Fellowship, Weatherspoon Distinguished Research, Weatherspoon Excellence in Teaching, Roy Holsten Award for Exceptional Service and POM Best Department Editor Award. He has been a principal investigator on grants from the National Science Foundation, Obama-Singh Knowledge Initiative and U.S. Department of Education.
A Fellow of the Academic Leadership Program in the Institute of Arts and Humanities at UNC, he has served in various leadership roles at UNC Kenan-Flagler including Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Associate Dean for Global Executive MBA Programs, Director of UNC Global Business Center as well as Area Chair of Operations Faculty. Prior to joining UNC, he was a faculty at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He received his PhD and Master's degree in industrial administration from GSIA (now Tepper) at Carnegie Mellon University and his Bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
