Jeffrey Strauss

At Northwestern University for more than 30 years, Jeff has managed projects involving the design, development, and dissemination of complex and integrated interactive and other teaching materials/models for faculty teaching about operations in complex and uncertain environments, as well as training program for managers. Strauss is a member of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) ISO Council and Committee on Education, and the International Federation of Standards users (IFAN) standardization promotion and awareness working group. He has published in ASTM Standardization News, presented on standards issues in multiple conferences and workshops, and he spearheads NIST-sponsored Northwestern industry-academic workshops presenting standards in pressing problem contexts, with related development of standards negotiation exercises and a teaching support website. He is Vice-Chair for the Americas for the International Cooperation for Education and Standardization (ICES). Strauss has taught/ co-taught courses in the Kellogg School of Management, undergraduate Business Institutions Program (BIP) as well as School of Professional Studies (all in Northwestern University.) He has degrees in sociology, psychology and East Asian Studies, an MBA from Kellogg and extensive experience in consulting, marketing and multi-national personnel management in a wide range of countries and cultural settings.