Tamer joined ESMT European School of Management and Technology in 2015 as a professor of management science and is the first holder of the Michael Diekmann Chair in Management Science. In 2017, he was appointed as the director of research, and he is also the director of the Center for Sustainable Business and Leadership. He previously was a professor of operations management and a Desautels Faculty Scholar at McGill University in Quebec, Canada. Tamer received his PhD, MPhil, and MSc from Columbia University, New York, USA.