Richard Eglese is a Professor of Operational Research at the Department of Management Science in Lancaster University Management School.

His research interests concern mathematical and computational modelling for logistics and focus on optimisation techniques, particularly heuristic methods, applied to problems of vehicle routing and scheduling. He has worked on a variety of applications including food distribution to supermarkets and winter gritting for road surfaces. Recent research has focussed on Green Logistics. In 2010-2011 he is President of the Operational Research Society in the U.K.