Dr. Zeger Degraeve has been the dean of Prince Mohammed bin Salman College of Business and Entrepreneurship since October 2019.
Degraeve started his academic career as a professor of management science at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, his home country, before joining London Business School in 1999.
Between March 2002 and August 2005, he worked as an associate dean of the executive Master of Business Administration and executive MBA global programs, and from August 2005 to August 2007 served as London Business School’s deputy dean (programs) and a member of the school’s management committee and board of governors.
He became dean of Melbourne Business School in November 2011, as well as co-dean of the faculty of business and economics at the University of Melbourne after successfully establishing an alliance between the Australian city’s two education institutions in May 2013.
Alongside his academic work, Degraeve has provided consultancy support in areas including operations management, logistics and supply chain management, environmental planning, and purchasing strategy involving clients such as the European Commission, Andersen Business Consulting, National Economic Research Associates, and McKinsey and Co.
Degraeve’s research has won him several awards, including the Association of European Operational Research Societies’ prize for best applied paper and the chairman’s award for the best applied contributed paper by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.
After studying at the universities of Ghent and Leuven in Belgium, Degraeve gained a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago, now the Booth School of Business, in 1992.
