A look at the coming year with the 2025 INFORMS President

Published: January 21, 2025

Welcome to a brand-new year of Resoundingly Human podcasts! Whether this is your first episode, or you are a long-time listener, thank you for joining us and I hope you’ll subscribe for even more great content highlighting the incredible contributions of INFORMS members.

To kick off our first episode of the new year, joining me is the 2025 INFORMS President Dave Hunt, vice president at Oliver Wyman, and a 30+ year INFORMS member who received the INFORMS President’s Award for his role in founding INFORMS Pro Bono Analytics and chairing the INFORMS Ethics Guidelines committee.

I have a lot of friends at INFORMS that I have made over the past 30+ years, and I hope to make a lot more friends. So if you see me at a conference, stop and say hello, introduce yourself, feel free to reach out. So just getting to meet more members is the most fun and interesting part of this.

Interviewed this episode:

Dave Hunt

2025 INFORMS President

David Hunt, a manager at Oliver Wyman, has had a 30+ year career implementing operations research solutions in the transportation industry for clients on six continents. David has led public policy efforts in the transportation industry, and he has written several white papers filed with the U.S. Department of Transportation that have helped shape federal transportation regulations, including the first-ever nationwide rail capacity study. His current interest is in applying predictive models to improve transportation safety and reliability. He began his INFORMS involvement in the early 1990’s and has served in many capacities since then, including as President of the New Jersey Chapter of INFORMS, President of the Rail Applications Section, Chair of the INFORMS Subdivision Council, and as a Vice President on the INFORMS Board of Directors. David led the development of the INFORMS Ethics Guidelines in 2016. Most recently he led the effort to create Pro Bono Analytics, a new INFORMS volunteer service that provides support to nonprofit organizations in need of analytics help. At last count, over 450 volunteers have offered their analytical skills to a wide variety of projects for nonprofit organizations working in underserved areas or for underserved populations.