Edwardo Lao Rhodes (born 1946) is an American management science scholar and author.
An Emeritus Professor at the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs,[1] Rhodes is best known for his seminal work in data envelopment analysis,[2] as well as his applications of management science to policy analysis and environmental policy.
While he started his professional career at the State University of New York at Buffalo,[3] Rhodes developed most of his career as a professor of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University where he reached the status of Professor Emeritus.
[1] Rhodes is known for the invention of data envelopment analysis in 1978, as part of his doctoral dissertation,[2] in the paper "Measuring the Efficiency of Decision Making Units" with William W. Cooper and Abraham Charnes.
In the book, Rhodes discusses new methodological approaches to environmental justice and argues that race and class are relevant categories previously ignored in analyzing environmental justice issues.