Jo Arnoldus Elizabeth Emmanuel

Education

Born in Venlo, Van Nunen studied Applied Mathematics at the Eindhoven University of Technology, where he received his Master of Arts in 1971.

Career

There in 1976 he also receiving his Phd under supervision of Jaap Wessels with the thesis entitled "Contracting Markov decision processes". In 1978 he was visiting professor at North Carolina State University in the United States for one year. In 1984 he was appointed professor at the Interuniversity Institute of Business Administration in Delft.

Late 1980s this institute was merged into the Erasmus University Rotterdam, nowadays the Rotterdam School of Management.

Among his Doctor of Philosophy students was Walther Ploos van Amstel. He participated in the EICB (Expertiseen InnovatieCentrum Binnenvaart), and he was one of the founders of the Dinalog (Dutch Institute for Advanced Logistics) research institute in Breda.

In 2007 he had been awarded the International Business Machines Corporation Faculty Award for all his scientific work. Jo van Nunen he died from cardiac arrest 12 May 2010 in Vancouver, Canada, where he had been attending a scientific congress.

Achievements

• Van Nunen had been part-time management consultant at Deloitte from 1989 to 2006, and had founded his won consultancy firm in 2006.

Membership

He was board member of the Vereniging Logistiek Management for many year, and was just elected president in 2009.