Harwin de Vries is Associate Professor at the Technology and Operations Management department at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. His research focuses on humanitarian logistics & supply chain resilience, with a particular focus on disaster relief logistics and access to essential medicines. Harwin has collaborated closely with more than 25 humanitarian/ health organizations, studying how key supply chain decisions can be optimized. Harwin won several prizes with his research, including the 2023 Paul Kleindorfer best paper award and the 2021 ERIM Award for Outstanding Performance by a Young Researcher, and attracted
several research grants, including the 2022 NWO VENI grant. He published more than 20 academic papers in leading scientific journals, including Production and Operations Management and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. Harwin also serves as associate editor for Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
and Decision Sciences Journal and serves on the board of the POMS College of Humanitarian Operations & Crisis Management (HOCM) – the main professional society in his field. Harwin's current teaching portfolio includes courses on Health & Humanitarian Logistics (MSc & MBA), Decision Science & Operations (pt-MiM), and Geopolitics, Disasters & Supply Chain Resilience (MBA). Before joining RSM, Harwin worked at INSEAD (France) as postdoctoral researcher and manager of the INSEAD Humanitarian Research Group and obtained a PhD degree in Operations Research from the Erasmus University Rotterdam.