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Professor Thomas L. Magnanti

President
Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

Professor Thomas L. Magnanti is a consummate educator, researcher and academic entrepreneur whose activities have spanned much of higher education — in engineering, management, applied mathematics, and other fields. He is one of the fourteen Institute Professors at MIT, former Dean of MIT's School of Engineering, and for several years headed a third of the MIT Sloan School of Management. Professor Magnanti has developed and led many centres and programmes. These include industrial and international collaborations, as founding Co-director, MIT's Leaders for Manufacturing and System Design and Management Programs and, as founding Director, the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART).

More recently, Professor Magnanti has become the founding President of the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) — a new Singapore university being established in collaboration with MIT. His dream is for SUTD to become a preeminent institution for technology and design and to do for Singapore what MIT and Stanford have done locally, nationally and internationally — become an intellectual hub and engine of growth.

Outside of MIT, Professor Magnanti has served as president of three major professional societies and on a number of corporate and university boards, and edited the leading technical journal Operations Research. Professor Magnanti has received numerous educational and research awards, including several honorary degrees. He is also a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.