The International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) to which the ORSP belongs announced the launching of the IFORS Fellows Award last January 15, 2021. Elise del Rosario of ORSP was included in the first set of awardees. According to the award letter issued by IFORS President Grazia Speranza, the award is a recognition of her “dedicated efforts over the years to help IFORS promote the development of OR worldwide, both in methodology and practice and to link member societies together.
Del Rosario joins 19 others (https://www.ifors.org/ifors-fellows/) in the list of which she is the only woman and Asian. She was IFORS President from 2007 to 2009. She is one of the founding Presidents of ORSP, at the time that she was head of the Operations Research Group of San Miguel Corporation, from where she retired at its Vice President. It will be recalled that the San Miguel Corporation was awarded the 1992 Operations Research Society of America Prize for its sustained and consistent use of OR in organizational decision-making.
Founded in 1955, IFORS is the only global organization in the field of OR and counts some 54 OR national societies with over 30,000 individual members. E. del Rosario is a graduate of BS Industrial Engineering from UP Diliman, Master of Engineering in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Asian Institute of Technology and was an International Fellow at the Stanford Research Institute.