Daniel Armanios PhD

Daniel Armanios is the BT Professor and Chair of Major Programme Management at Saïd Business School and a Professorial Fellow of St Anne’s College. He was previously an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering & Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, as well as a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Leadership at Tsinghua University's Schwarzman College in China and a LabGov.City Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Law at LUISS in Italy.

Daniel’s research integrates civil engineering and organisational theory to better understand how organisations coordinate to build, manage, and maintain infrastructure amidst complexity. He focuses on complexity arising from national and subnational variation in institutions, heterogeneity in individual capabilities, and reforms that aim to transition infrastructure from one set of guidelines to another. His findings inform efforts to advance sustainable development and innovation, while also alleviating systemic and persistent inequities within such systems. His research implements a mixed methods approach that integrates qualitative and quantitative data to overcome constraints that have historically hindered empirical analyses in these settings.

His work is published in leading outlets across the engineering and social sciences including Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Discoveries, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Nature Sustainability, and the Journal of Construction Engineering and Management. Daniel holds Bachelor’s degrees from the University of Pittsburgh in Mechanical Engineering (B.S.) and Political Science (Economics Minor) (B.A), where he was a Goldwater and Truman Scholar. He holds a Master’s degree from the University of Oxford in Management Research and in Water Science, Policy and Management (MSc), where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He holds a PhD from Stanford University in Management Science & Engineering, where he was a joint National Science Foundation and Stanford Benchmark Graduate Research Fellow.

Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

His current indicative projects include:

1. Using broadband and bridge networks as 'social sensors' to better enhance the resiliency and effectiveness of support for marginalized populations.

2. Funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (with Kasey Faust at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering at University of Texas-Austin) to combine Native Alaskan and engineering know-how to improve operator training and resilience of water systems in the Arctic: Award Abstract #2127354, Award Abstract #2127353

3. Understand the impacts of political turmoil, such as the Arab Spring in Egypt and Tunisia and military coups in Thailand, on state ecosystem support of entrepreneurship, R&D, and innovation.

4. Project S³ that integrates research expertise from the Department of Engineering Sciences and the managerial and social sciences (Saïd Business School and Blavatnik School of Government) to stress test today's major programmes for tomorrow's challenges.