The International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) is an umbrella organization for national operations research societies of over 45 countries from four geographical regions: Asia Pacific, Europe, North America, and South America.IFORS home page
The organization was officially founded in 1959 by three organizations: the Operation Research Society of America (United States), the Operational Research Society (United Kingdom ), and the Société française de Recherche Opérationnelle (France), although the first IFORS conference was held in Oxford in 1957.IFORS history
The Statutes, set the purpose of the IFORS to be "the development of operational research as a unified science and its advancement in all nations of the world." An interesting aspect of the Statutes is that in formal votings of the Board the voting power of each member society is proportional to the square root of the qualified membership — thus giving the greater weight of the larger societies but not overwhelming the smaller societies.
Presidents of the IFORS
1959 – 1961 Sir Charles Goodeve 1962 – 1964 Philip Morse 1965 – 1966 Marcel Boiteux 1967 Charles Salzmann 1968 – 1970 Alec M. Lee 1971 – 1973 Arne Jensen 1974 – 1976 Takehiko Matsuda 1977 – 1979 David B. Hertz 1983 – 1985 Heiner Müller-Merbach 1986 – 1988 Jacques Lesourne 1989 – 1991 William Pierskalla 2013 – 2015 Nelson Maculan 2016 – 2018 Michael Trick 2019 – 2021 M. Grazia Speranza 2022 – 2024 Janny Leung 2025 – 2027 Hector Cancela
References
External links Summary of the IFORS archives, held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick