The Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Advanced Analytics, Operations Research, and Management Science is considered the Nobel Prize in its field. Awarded by INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences), it recognizes and celebrates the contributions of operations research and analysis in both business and non-profit organizations.
In the past, this prize has been awarded to giants such as Intel, for achieving efficiencies of 25 billion dollars by applying Advanced Analytics from product architecture to logistics planning, the FCC for using Operational Research to reallocate the radioelectric spectrum, or the CDC (US Center for Disease Control and Prevention) for the use of integrated analytical models for polio eradication.
The 2021 award has gone to the UN World Food Programme for its innovative logistics solutions to anticipate, expedite and streamline the response to food crisis situations, especially on the African continent.
Congrats, WFP!
