Ann Vereecke

Professor Ann Vereecke is Professor and partner at Vlerick Business School, and Professor at Ghent University. She has been Faculty Dean of Vlerick Business School from 2008 till 2018. She graduated as an engineer at Ghent University, and has obtained her PhD at Ghent University in 1997, having been a visiting PhD candidate in INSEAD (France).
Ann teaches Operations and Supply Chain Management in the MBA and Master programmes at Vlerick Business School. She is actively involved in executive teaching and in research projects for a broad range of companies (such as Aliaxis, AB Inbev, ArceorMittal, Bekaert, Bostik, Carrefour, Corus, Etex, Goodman, Imperial Tobacco, Johnson & Johnson, Möbius Consulting, PWC, SAS, Tessenderlo Group, Umicore, YKK, Steinhoff and PostNl). She has been visiting Professor in Operations Management at Rotterdam School of Management.
She has served on the board of POMS (the US-based Production and Operations management society) and has been president of EurOMA (European Operations Management Association) and Vice President of VIL (Flanders Institute for Logistics). She currently serves on the board of the food company Ter Beke and of North Sea Port.
Her main interests are Supply Chain Management and manufacturing strategy, in particular international manufacturing strategy. She has published several articles in these areas.