Ruth Kaufman

As of 2018[update] she is a visiting senior fellow at the London School of Economics, where her role is to create links between academics and OR practitioners, and also practises as a consultant.

[1] She has worked in OR in the fields of transport and electricity, and as a principal OR analyst at the Department of Health.

Staying in government posts, she led the OR unit of the Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD) and became the chair of the Government Operational Research Service and chair of the Heads of OR Forum.

[1][3] Outside work she was chair for five years to 2014 of Woman's Trust, a charity supporting women in London who face domestic violence.

[4][5] In 2011 she was made a Companion of OR, an award "for sustained support and encouragement for the development of Operational Research".