Professor EmeritusEddie Anderson

MA, PhD (Cambridge)

Eddie Anderson is Emeritus Professor of Decision Sciences and previously held the position of Associate Dean (Research) and Associate Dean (Research Education) at the University of Sydney Business School. Prior to joining the University of Sydney in 2008, he was at the Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New South Wales. Eddie has an honours degree in Mathematics from Cambridge, and a PhD in Operations Management, also from the University of Cambridge. He now also has a position on the faculty at Imperial College Business School in London.

Eddie is known for work in energy, optimization; scheduling theory and game theory. He has wide ranging interests in supply chains, particularly in relation to contracts and risk. Much of his research involves the application of these ideas in energy markets. He was the Area Editor for Energy at the journal Operations Research from 2012-2017. Risk management has been a focus of Eddie’s teaching and in 2014 he published an advanced text with Wiley: “Business Risk Management: Models and Analysis”.

Eddie has published 78 papers in international academic journals. Google Scholar shows that he has 5800 career citations and an h-index of 39. Fourteen students have successfully completed PhDs under his supervision.

Eddie has held a succession of academic leadership roles: Associate Dean Research, AGSM, UNSW 2002-2004; Acting Dean AGSM 2006; Postgraduate Associate Dean Faculty of Business, UNSW 2006-2008; and Chair, Discipline of Business Analytics, Sydney University 2008-2013.