Invited Speakers
Prof. Atour Taghipour, University of LeHavre, France
Atour TAGHIPOUR is an Associate professor and the head of an international management master program at the University of Le Havre in France. He holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering from the Polytechnic School of Montreal in Canada. He received two masters’ degrees, one in Management, Logistics & Strategy and other in Industrial Engineering. He has more than ten years of experiences as a manager in automobile industries. He has published two books and many research papers in international journals. His areas of research are supply chain and operations management.
Prof. Vikas Kumar, University of the West, UK
Prof Vikas Kumar is
a Director of
Research and
Professor of
Operations and
Supply Chain
Management at
Bristol Business
School, University
of the West of
England, UK. He has
over a decade of
teaching and
research experience
and is fellow of
HEA. Prior to
joining UWE in 2013,
he was a Lecturer in
Management at Dublin
City University
Business School
(2009-2013). Since
2019, he is acting
as a Director of
Research.
He serves on the
editorial board of
around ten
international
journals and has
guest-edited several
special issues in
high impact
journals. He is also
a reviewer of more
than 15
international
journals including
ABS 4/4* and ABS 3*
journals.
Prof Kumar works
very closely with
industries and has
generated research
funding in the
excess of £1 million
from various
research agencies
such as Innovate UK,
EPSRC, British
Council, British
Academy, Newton
Fund, and Science
Foundation of
Ireland. He is
currently (2021 )
involved in two
projects funded by
the Royal Academy of
Engineering with
Jordan and another
project funded by
the British
Council/Newton Fund
with Thailand. He
has worked on
several
international
collaborative
projects with
researchers from
several UK
universities and
researchers from
Brazil, Vietnam,
Thailand, Indonesia,
India, Mexico,
Taiwan, Columbia,
Peru, Costa Rica and
Turkey.
Assoc. Prof. Babek Erdebilli, Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Turkey
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Assoc. Prof. Seth Agbo, Lakehead University, Canada
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Senior Lecturer Reza Kiani Mavi, Edith Cowan University, Australia
Reza Kiani Mavi
holds a PhD degree
in operations
management.
Currently, he is a
senior lecturer in
supply chain and
project management
at the school of
business and law,
Edith cowan
university,
Australia. In
addition to his
usual teaching and
research duties, he
is involved in grant
applications and has
received several
funds from industry
including the
Australian Institute
of project
management, the
Department of
transport, and iMOVE
collaborative
research centre. His
research interests
include analysing
eco-innovation and
eco-efficiency of
supply chains, and
project performance
using mathematical
models such as data
envelopment
analysis. Dr Reza
Kiani Mavi has
published over 70
papers in many
prestigious journals
such as
Technological
Forecasting & Social
Change, Supply Chain
Management,
Transport Policy,
Computers &
Industrial
Engineering. In
addition to his
service as the
reviewer and
editorial board
member of
Technological
Forecasting & Social
Change, and
Management Decision,
Reza is the
associate editor for
the Journal of
Intelligent and
Fuzzy Systems
(JIFS). He is also a
member of the ethics
committee in the
Australasian Supply
Chain Institute
(ASCI).