Professor David Simchi-Levi has been elected as an Academic Member to the Board of Governors of the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, a post similar to an MIT Corporation member. Simchi-Levi received his B.S. from the Technion in 1978, before earning the M.Sc. and Ph.D. at Tel-Aviv University. His research is in the development and implementation of robust and efficient techniques for manufacturing and logistics systems.