Opher Baron

Professor, Rotman School of Management

Long Form Biography
Opher Baron is a 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.