Professor “Vish” Viswanathan obtained a Ph.D. in Operations Research with minor in Operations Management from Case Western Reserve University in 1992, MBA (Gold Medalist) from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta in 1986, and a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 1984. He has been a faculty member at the Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore for 32 years. He has taught previously at Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University in Texas.

Currently, he is Professor of Operations & Corporate Sustainability at Nanyang Business School. He also serves as the Director of the Centre for Business Sustainability, and as Cluster Director of the Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N). He has previously served as Associate Dean (Research), Head of the academic Division of Information Technology & Operations Management (ITOM), Director of the PhD Program, Program, Director of MBA specialization in Technology & Operations and Program Director of MDP@Nanyang. Prior to entering academia, Vish worked as an Operations Auditor and as an IT Software Specialist.

Vish was a member of the team responsible for the curriculum design and redesign of the full-time MBA into a one-year MBA program. As Head of ITOM, he was involved in developing the initial curriculum for the MSc (Technology Management) segment of the Renaissance Engineering Program. He was the founding Program Director of the NTU-Waseda double MBA program and was involved in developing the curriculum for the NTU-Waseda double MBA and the MBA (Technology & Operations) specialization. He was also involved in developing the curriculum for the Management Development Program @ NTU, as its Founding Program Director. He also recently championed the program design for the MBA (Sustainability & Innovation) Track. In addition, as Program Director, he has been recently involved in designing the curriculum for several in-company executive programs on Climate and Sustainability and for the NTU Executive MSc in Sustainability Management.

Vish’s teaching interests are in Corporate Sustainability, Decarbonization, Circular Economy, and Operations. He currently teaches in the EMSc, MBA, EMBA, PMBA, Nanyang Fellows MBA, and in many open and in-company custom Executive Programs.

His research interests are in Corporate Sustainability, Energy Modelling, Life Cycle Analysis, Business Model Innovation, Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing Systems, Urban Mobility, Optimization, and Scheduling.

His research has been published in Financial Times and BusinessWeek ranked top tier Business journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, Production & Operations Management, and Journal of Operations Management, and other top journals in the field.

He is serving or has served as Senior Editor, Editorial Board Member, or Associate Editor in top journals such as Decision Sciences, Production & Operations Management, Journal of Operations Management, IEEE Transactions in Automation Science & Engineering, and International Journal of Production Research. He has made several appearances in Who’s who in the World, Who’s Who in Asia, Who’s Who in Finance and Industry and Who’s Who in Science and Engineering lists. He was selected for the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017. He was awarded the prestigious Nanyang Award for Research Excellence in 2010.