Sytske Wijnsma

Assistant Professor UC Berkeley Haas

I am an Assistant Professor in Operations Management at UC Berkeley Haas. Before joining Haas, I was a post-doctoral researcher at GeorgiaTech, Scheller College of Business and obtained my Ph.D. in Management Science at the University of Cambridge, Judge Business School. My primary research interest is designing supply chain and policy interventions that help solve real-world challenges with social and environmental impact.

Prior to my PhD, I obtained a BSc and MSc in Economics and Finance at the VU University Amsterdam and an MPhil in Management Science and Operations at the University of Cambridge, Judge Business School. I also worked for 2 years as a quantitative analyst for commodity trading. At Cambridge, I have been actively involved as a PhD representative and with initiatives like Learning Together, a programme that brings prison inmates and University students together to study alongside each other and learn about the criminal justice system and the prison journey. I am a reviewer for Management Science, Naval Research Logistics, and Production and Operations Management.

Research Methods: Game Theory, Applied Econometrics, Unsupervised Learning (clustering), Compositional Data Analysis
Research Interests: Supply Chain Management, Sustainable Sourcing, Circularity, Illicit Supply Chains, Social and Environmental Impact

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Research

Published and under review

Sustainable Triple-A Supply Chains. 2021. Production and Operations Management 30(3):644-655 (Special Issue)
With Feryal Erhun and Tim Kraft

Treat, Dump, or Export? How Domestic and International Waste Management Policies Shape Waste Chain Outcomes. Accepted at Management Science
With Dominique Lauga and Beril Toktay

Working papers

Rural smallholders, income portfolios, and spillovers: Broadening the view for poverty alleviation strategies. With Paul Kattuman

When is Honesty the Best Policy: a Game Theoretic Analysis of Price and Product Offering for Ethical and Fair-trade Goods.

Policy notes and impact

From a problem to a resource: waste and the reverse supply chain explained
National Festival of Social Science, November 2021

Downstream sustainability: the big reset for recycling in the U.S.
Kinaxis column, July 2020

Helping Europol reduce illegal electronic waste trafficking – how to leverage a PhD to have impact.
Cambridge University Judge Business School column, July 2020

Africa’s Co-existence Landscapes: Understanding Land-use Decisions to Secure the Future for Wildlife and People.
UNEP Internal Report, September 2019

Longitudinal study of a biometric enabled community health programme.
BRAC and Simprints Internal Report, August 2018

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