Victoria Jane Mabin

Victoria Jane Mabin, also van den Broek-Mabin, is a New Zealand management academic, and is a professor emeritus at Victoria University of Wellington. Mabin is a Fellow of the UK Operational Research Society and was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization.

Academic career

Mabin completed a Bachelor of Science with Honours at the University of Canterbury in 1975, where she was a student of Hans Daellenbach. Mabin worked at DSIR before joining the faculty of Victoria University of Wellington in 1991, rising to full professor as Professor of Management in 2012. In 2020 she retired and was made emeritus professor. She has served as the President of the Operations Research Society of New Zealand.

Awards In 2004 Mabin was elected a Fellow of the Operational Research Society in the UK.

In 2018 the Operations Research Society of New Zealand awarded her the Hans Daellenbach Prize, which is awarded to 'distinguished contributors' of operational research.

Mabin was part of a team of four researchers awarded the Griffiths Medal by the Operational Research Society (UK) in 2019 for the best article in the journal Health Systems in 2017–2018.

Mabin was awarded a TOCICO Lifetime Achievement Award by the Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization in 2021, "in recognition for significant contribution to the TOC community to advance the TOC body of knowledge".

Selected works