Prof. Dilek Önkal is Professor of Information Systems and Analytics at the Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow at UCL. Prof. Önkal received her B.A. from Boğaziçi University and her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, where she taught prior to joining Bilkent University in 1988. She was an academic visitor at Oxford University Department of Economics and an associate member of the Nuffield College during 2006-2007. Prof. Önkal previously held positions of Associate Dean of Research and Knowledge Transfer and Professor of Decision and Organisational Science at the Faculty of Management & Law at University of Bradford, Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences at Bilkent University and Chair of Supply Chain Management and Director of OASIS (Operations and Supply Chain Systems) Research Centre at Brunel Business School, Brunel University, U.K.. Her work focuses on judgmental forecasting, judgment and decision making, forecasting/decision support systems, behavioural operations management, risk perception and risk communication with a strong emphasis on multi-disciplinary interactions.