Marie-Ève Rancourt is an associate professor of logistics and operations management at HEC Montréal. Her research interests are in the areas of humanitarian logistics, supply chain design, and transportation management using methodologies rooted in data science. She is working on developing state-of-the-art methods to support data-driven decision- and policy-making in different humanitarian contexts and foster sustainable development.
Her recent work focusses on the use of data analytics and mathematical programming to analyse and solve real problems in applications with social and economic impacts, particularly logistics problems related with relief operations, food security, and healthcare delivery in developing countries (e.g., Kenya, Ethiopia, Liberia, Haiti, and Nepal) and in Canada. She is working in collaboration with different humanitarian organisations, such as the World Food Programme, Red Cross Societies (e.g., Canadian and Austrian), the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency, the World Bank, Natural Resources Canada, and the Quebec Food Bank to develop methods for designing and managing supply chains and access venerable populations or populations located in underserved areas.
Marie-Ève Rancourt is a member of the Interuniversity Research Center on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation (CIRRELT) and is MIT Affiliate in their Center for Transportation and Logistics. She received her Ph.D. in operations research from HEC Montreal in 2013; a M.Sc. in modeling and decision support from HEC Montreal in 2007; and a B.Sc. in mathematics from the University of Montreal in 2004. Her work has led to award-winning papers and she has published articles in top-tier journals, such as Production and Operations Management and Transportation Science.