Edwardo Rhodes

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Edwardo Lao Rhodes (born 1946) is an American scholar and author who studies how to improve management practices and public policy. He is an Emeritus Professor at Indiana University's School of Public and Environmental Affairs. He is best known for creating data envelopment analysis and for applying management science to policy and environmental issues. He earned a BA from Princeton University in 1968 and a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in 1978, advised by William W. Cooper. He began his career at SUNY Buffalo, but spent most of his career at Indiana University, where he became Professor Emeritus. He invented data envelopment analysis in 1978 as part of his PhD work, in the paper "Measuring the Efficiency of Decision Making Units" co-authored with William W. Cooper and Abraham Charnes. He later focused on using management science to study public and environmental policy. In 2005 he published Environmental Justice in America: A New Paradigm, where he argues that race and class are important factors in environmental justice that had been ignored before.