Federgruen received his BA from the
University of Amsterdam in 1972, where he also received his MS in 1975 and his PhD in Operations Research in 1978 with a thesis entitled "Markovian Control Problems, Functional Equations and Algorithms" under supervision of
Gijsbert de Leve and
Henk Tijms. Federgruen started his academic career as a Research Fellow at the
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam, in the early 1970s, and was a faculty member of the
University of Rochester, Graduate School of Management. In 1979 he was appointed Professor at the
Columbia University. In 1992 he was named the first Charles E. Exley Jr. Professor of Management, and holds the Chair of the Decision, Risk and Operations (DRO) Division. From 1997 to 2002 he was Vice Dean of the University. He serves as a principal consultant for the Israel Air Force, in the area of logistics and procurement policies. Federgruen has supervised many PhD students; He was elected to the 2009 class of
Fellows of the
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. == Work ==