IFORS Distinguished Lectures
In 1999 IFORS established a special program, called IFORS Distinguished Lectures (IDL), to recognize distinguished OR scholars and analysts and support member societies and regional groupings. Through this program IFORS is sponsoring lectures by distinguished OR scholars and analysts at conferences of members societies and regional groupings.
| Year | Distinguished Lecturer | Conference |
| 2008, October | INFORMS, Washington, DC, USA | |
| 2008, September | ALIO, Cartagena de Indias, Columbia | |
| 2007, November | Ralph Keeney | INFORMS, Seattle, Washington State, USA |
| 2007, July | Robert Bixby | EURO, Prague, Czech Republic |
| 2006, November | Martin Grötschel | ALIO, Montevideo, Uruguay |
| 2006, July | Saul Gass | EURO, Rejkjavik, Iceland |
| 2006, May | Egon Balas | CORS, Montreal, Canada. |
| 2006, January | Dominique de Werra | APORS, Manila, Philippines. |
| 2005, November | Luk Van Wassenhove | INFORMS, San Francisco, USA |
| 2004, October | Andres Weintraub | ALIO, Havana City, Cuba |
| 2004, July | Michael Pinedo | EURO, Rhodes, Greece |
| 2004, May | Ralph Gomory | CORS/INFORMS, Banff, Canada |
| 2003, December | Toshihide Ibaraki | APORS, New Delhi, INDIA |
| 2003, October | Jan Karel Lenstra | INFORMS, Atlanta, Georgia |
| 2003, July | Richard Rosenthal | EURO, Istanbul, TURKEY |
| 2002, November | David Ryan | INFORMS, San Jose, California, USA |
| 2002, October | Michael Florian | ALIO, Concepcion,CHILE |
| 2001, July | Donald Ratliff | EURO, Rotterdam, NETHERLANDS |
| 2001, May | Bernard Roy | CORS, Quebec City, CANADA |
| 2000, September | Nelson Maculan | ALIO, Mexico City, MEXICO |
| 2000, July | Jong-Shi Pang | APORS, SINGAPORE |
| 2000, July | George Nemhauser | EURO, Budapest, HUNGARY |
| 2000, May | Thomas Magnanti | INFORMS,Salt Lake City, Utah, USA |
| 1999, May | William Pierskalla | INFORMS, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA |
