Ahti Salo is Professor of systems analysis at the Systems Analysis Laboratory of the Aalto University School of Science. He obtained his M.Sc. and Dr.Tech. degrees at the Helsinki University of Technology in 1987 and 1992, respectively. He has worked as a senior researcher at the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) and Nokia Research Center, and as a visiting professor at the London Business School, Université Paris-Dauphine and the University of Vienna. His research interests include portfolio decision analysis, risk management, efficiency analysis, and technology foresight. He has written well over 100 publications, including papers in leading journals such as Management Science, Operations Research and European Journal of Operational Research, and is currently an Associate Editor of Decision Analysis. He has directed numerous high-impact decision support processes such as the national foresight project FinnSight 2015. In 2010, he became the President of the Finnish Operations Research Society, served on the jury of the EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award, and began his work as the European and Middle East Representative on the INFORMS International Activities Committee. Jeffrey Keisler is Associate Professor of Management Science and Information Systems at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He earned a Ph.D. in Decision Sciences and an S.M. in Engineering Sciences at Harvard as well as an MBA at the University of Chicago and a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin. He has over fifty assorted publications including articles in journals such as Decision Analysis, Interfaces, and Risk analysis. His research interests include decision analysis applications, portfolio decision analysis, decision processes, value of information, and other decision analytic methods. He was previously a decision analyst at General Motors, Argonne National Laboratory and Strategic Decisions Group. He is Editor of Decision Analysis Today and anAssociate Editor for Interfaces. He is President of the Specialty Group on Decision Analysis and Risk within the Society for Risk Analysis. Most recently, he became Vice-President/President-Elect of the INFORMS Decision Analysis Society. Dr Alec Morton is Lecturer in Operational Research in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He teaches courses in decision analysis, simulation, and statistics, and his research interests are in the application of decision analysis to planning problems, especially in healthcare; in Multicriteria Decision Analysis and Multiobjective Optimization; in the normative foundations of health economics, and in games of attack and defence. He is a graduate of the Universities of Manchester and Strathclyde, and before joining the LSE, worked at Singapore Airlines and the National University of Singapore.Contributing AuthorsMara Airoldi, London School of Economics and Political ScienceGonzalo Arévalo, Carlos III National Health InstituteNikolaos Argyris, London School of Economics and Political ScienceRoger Chapman Burk, US Military Academy, West PointZeger Degraeve, London Business SchoolBert De Reyck, University College London and London Business School,Barbara Fasolo, London School of Economics and Political ScienceJosé Rui Figueira, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa and Ecole des Mines de NancyL. Alberto Franco, Warwick Business SchoolJohannes Gettinger, Vienna University of TechnologyJanne Gustafsson, Ilmarinen Mutual Pension Insurance CompanyElmar Kiesling, University of Vienna,Jack Kloeber, Kromite, LLCJuuso Liesiö, Aalto University School of ScienceGilberto Montibeller, London School of Economics and Political ScienceVincent Mousseau, Ecole CentraleParisGregory S. Parnell, US Military Academy,West PointLawrence D. Phillips, London School of Economics and Political ScienceDavid Ríos Insua, Royal Academy of SciencesJulie Stal-Le Cardinal, Ecole Centrale Paris Jeffrey S. Stonebraker, North Carolina State University Christian Stummer, Universität Bielefeld Antti Toppila, Aalto University School of ScienceRudolf Vetschera, University of ViennaDetlof vonWinterfeldt, International Institute for Applied Systems AnalysisJun Zheng, Ecole Centrale Paris
