Prof. Rann Smorodinsky joined the Faculty in 1997, He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Tel Aviv University in 1995. Prior to joining the Faculty Rann was an assistant professor at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, from 1995–1997.

Rann’s research is in Game Theory with special interest in learning, privacy, social networks and mechanism design.

Prof. Rann Smorodinsky serves as Dean of the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management since January 2022.

Miriam Erez is professor emeritus of organizational psychology and management, and vice-dean of the MBA programs at the Technion Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management. Erez served as dean of the faculty from 1996 to 1998. She is the founder and chair of the Knowledge Center for Innovation at the Technion, and is the chairperson of the hiCenter entrepreneurial campus in Haifa. Her three main research areas are: innovation management—“the journey of the idea”; cross-cultural and global organizational behavior; and work motivation. Erez has co-authored and co-edited five books, as well as more than 100 journal papers and book chapters. She has also served as advisor to around 100 master’s students and doctoral students on their theses and dissertations.Erez received the 2002 IAAP Distinguished Scientific Award and the 2005 Israel Prize in Administrative Sciences. She is a fellow of the Academy of Management, the American Psychological Association, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and the International Association of Applied Psychology.

She is associate editor of Journal of International Business Studies, and of the journal of Cross Cultural and Strategic Management, and she is on the consulting editors’ board of the Academy of Management Annals. Erez served as editor of Applied Psychology: An International Review and as an associate editor of the Journal of Managerial Psychology. She was on the editorial boards of numerous journals, including the Journal of Applied Psychology, The Academy of Management Journal, and the Journal of Management.