Olivia S. Mitchell (born 1953) is an American economist and the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Her interests focus on pensions and social security, and she is the executive director of the Pension Research Council, the oldest U.S. center devoted to scholarship and policy-relevant research on retirement security. She also heads Wharton's Boettner Center for Pensions and Retirement Research.

Opher Baron is a University of Toronto Distinguished Professor of Operations Management at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto and a cofounder and CEO of SiMLQ.

He was a visiting associate Professor at the Industrial engineering and Management faculty of Technion (2009/10) and a visiting Professor at the School of Information Management and Engineering, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (2016/17). He is a Distinguished Fellow at the School of Business Administration at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2025/26). Opher served as the Academic Director, MMA Program (2021/23), and the Operations management and statistics area coordinator (2015/21). He has a PhD in Operations Management from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an MBA and BSc in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Technion. On the teaching front, Opher is especially proud of the modeling and analytics courses he introduced and teaches at Rotman. On the application front he and his colleagues launched the Covidppehelp.ca platform that facilitated the flow of millions of PPE items to end-user customers during the global Covid19 pandemic. In 2024 he cofounded SiMLQ Inc. see WWW.SiMLQ.com. SiMLQ automatically constructs data-driven process Simulators (digital twins) by leveraging event log data, Machine Learning and Queueing theory. On the theory side, Opher’s research interests include queueing, business analytics, service operations (such as healthcare), autonomous vehicles, and supply chain management. Opher's work is published in leading journals such as Operations Research, and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and he has won several research and teaching awards and grants, including the 1000 Talents Plan Scholar from the Shanghai Municipal Government, 2017 and the Rotman 2023 Distinguished Scholarly Contribution Award. Opher is active in the operations research and operations management community. He has given numerous invited keynote lectures and seminars, chaired several conferences, clusters, and sessions, and is currently serving on the advisory board and editorial boards of several leading journals, including Operations Research, and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.

Brian S. Silverman is Professor of Strategic Management, and holds the J.R.S. Prichard and Ann Wilson Chair in Management. He has previously served as Associate Dean, Research & Academic Resources.

His research focuses on the ways in which a firm’s competitive strategy and organizational structure interact to affect its performance – in particular, its ability to access and exploit technological capabilities. He studies diverse industries including biotechnology, information processing, consumer electronics, and transportation. He has served in numerous roles in varied academic organizations. He is currently a Co-Editor at Strategic Management Journal, serves on the editorial boards of California Management Review and Strategic Organization, and is a former Series Editor of Advances in Strategic Management.

Heski Bar-Isaac, FREcon, is the University of Toronto Distinguished Professor of Economics & Finance at the Rotman School of Management. He teaches graduate courses in managerial economics, game theory, and industrial organization.

He is a board member of the Industrial Organization Society, a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and an associate of CRESSE, a network of academics and professionals with an interest in competition policy and regulation. He currently serves as an editor of the Economic Journal and as an associate editor of the RAND Journal of Economics. He has previously served on the Scientific Council of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE) and held various editorial positions.

In 2024–25, he was a visiting Special Economic Advisor on Digital and Platform Markets at the Competition Bureau Canada.