21st IEOM Global Supply Chain and Logistics
Plenary Speakers

IEOM Society International addresses the issues of Global Supply Chain and Logistics. There are various levels of readiness of engineering graduates from various parts of the world. One of the main themes is how to reduce the readiness gap of business management graduates around the world. The special focus is given to operations management, management science, supply chain management, business analytics, and logistics management. Are the graduates ready to take on the challenges of the current global economy? IEOM India Conference will have a dedicated session for the Global Business Management Education where distinguished speakers will discuss the readiness of business management graduates for workforce around the world. Featured speakers will be from various part of the world to address business management education challenges and opportunities.

Global Supply chain and Logistics Topics can be related on:

• Accreditation
• Learning Assessment
• Problem based learning
• Project based learning
• Active collaborative learning
• Student learning assessment
• Teaching and learning
• Pedagogy
• Curriculum improvement
• Innovation and entrepreneurship
• Global education challenges

Each speaker needs to submit a title of the talk, photo and a short bio. All will be included in the IEOM 2023 India Conference proceedings. There will be mostly virtual presentation using zoom. If you are interested to be distinguished feature speaker, please contact info@ieomsociety.org for details.

All speakers need to register for the 5th European IEOM India Conference. Please pay your registration fee ONLINE:  https://www.xcdsystem.com/IEOM/attendee/index.cfm?ID=6HEXVjz

DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS

Global Supply Chain and Logistics 
November 4, 8:00 – 9:45 am – Meeting Room 1 (Onsite)
Session Chair:

8:00 am – 8:20 am (November 4)

Dr. Gaurav Kabra
Associate Professor, Operations and Supply Chain Management
O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU)
Delhi, India

Dr. Gaurav Kabra earned his PhD in the area of Supply Chain Management from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. He holds a B.Tech (Information Technology) and MBA from the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior (IIITM Gwalior), India. He has received the ‘Highly Commended Paper Award’ from Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence-2016. He has been conferred the ‘Best Paper’ award in several International Conferences, including the International Conference of Society of Operations Management 2019. He was recognized as top seven researchers in the area of humanitarian supply chain management in 2018. He has co-authored a book titled “Think New Think Better: Select Cases on Entrepreneurship”. His research articles have been published in various journals of national and international repute, including Production Planning and Control, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Telematics and Informatics, Neural Computing and Applications. His research areas include Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Humanitarian Logistics, Application of IT in Business, and Sustainable Supply Chain Management.

8:20 am – 8:40 am (November 4)

Vernika Agarwal, PhD
Associate Professor
Apeejay School of Management
Dwarka, New Delhi
India

Dr. Vernika Agarwal holds the position of Associate Professor in operations at Apeejay School of Management, Dwarka, New Delhi, India. Her expertise spans diverse domains including green supply chains, circular economy, sustainability, cross-disciplinary research in supply and operations management, optimization, reverse logistics, and empirical research. Having earned her doctorate in operations and supply chain management from the Department of Operational Research at the University of Delhi in 2019, she has an impressive record of many research papers featured in esteemed national and international journals, as well as presentations at various conferences. She has been conferred the ‘Best Paper’ award in several International Conferences. Her scholarly impact is underscored by her recent publication in Business Strategy and the Environment (Impact factor: 13.4) and a significant presence in ABDC listed journals. Notably, she serves as the Guest Editor for a Special Issue on “MSME’s Resilience and Performance: COVID-19 Perspective” in Benchmarking (Emerald) – ABDC-B. Adding to her accomplishments, she has authored a book titled “Lean and Green Manufacturing – Towards Eco-Efficiency and Business Performance,” featured in the Management and Industrial Engineering book series by Springer. Currently, she has more than 50 SCOPUS indexed publications.

8:40 am – 9:00 am (November 4)

Dr. Abdul Ahad
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
Jahangirabad Institute of Technology
New Delhi, Delhi, India

9:00 am – 9:20 am (November 4)

Prof (Dr.) Rajesh Kumar Singh
Professor (Operations and Supply Chain Management)
Management Development Institute
Gurgaon, India

Prof (Dr.) Rajesh Kumar Singh is working as Professor (Operations and Supply Chain Management) at Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, India. Prof Singh is figured among the top 2% of researchers in the Business Management area by a study conducted by Stanford scholars and others and handling editorship and guest editorship of a few reputed leading international journals such as International Journal of Consumers Studies (Wiley) (“A” Category journal by ABDC), International Journal of Global Business and Competitiveness (Springer), Sustainable Production and consumption (2021) on Strategies for Resilient and Sustainable Supply Chains in an Uncertain Business Environment, Operations Management Research Journal (Springer), Competitiveness Review (Emerald),  Journal of Modelling in Management, and Journal of Global Operations and Strategic Sourcing (2020) on Application of Blockchain Technologies for Global Operations. He also serves as an active member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Supply Chain Management Systems, Vision (Sage) and Resources, Conservation and Recycling (Elsevier) on Supply Chain Management, Industry 4.0, and the Circular Economy. He earned his BTech in Mechanical Engineering from Dayalbagh Educational Institute (Deemed University Agra), MTech from IIT Roorkee, and a Ph.D. degree from Delhi University Delhi, India.

9:20 am – 9:40 am (November 4)

Imtiaz Ali Khan
M.Sc.Engineering, Ph.D.
Professor
Mechanical Engineering Department, A.M.U., Aligarh, India
Thrust Area of Research: Operations Research, Ergonomics/Human Factors Engineering, Industrial Engineering

Area of Research Interest: Industrial Ergonomics, Production Planning and Control, Manufacturing Analysis, Industrial Automation, CAM, CIM, Work Simplification. Area of Teaching Interest: Operation Research, Ergonomics, Industrial Engineering, Economics and Management, CAM. Name of Publication Journals: Springer’s, ‘Cognition Technology & Work, Precision Engineering and Manufacturing, Interactive Design and Manufacturing and Applied Machine Tool Technology, Taylor & Francis, InTech Open Access, Lambert Academic Publishers, Germany, International Journal of Human Factors and Ergonomics, International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications, International Journal of Science, Technology and Society, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Mechatronics.

9:40 am – 10:00 am (November 4)

Dr. Sunil Sharma
Professor of Operations, Quality & Supply Chain Management
Faculty of Management Studies (FMS)
University of Delhi
Delhi-110007, India 

Dr Sunil Sharma is a Professor at the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), University of Delhi, Delhi in the area of Operations Management for the last 34 years. He is an M.Tech. from IIT Delhi and Ph.D in. Total Quality Management from FMS, University of Delhi. He specializes in TQM and Supply Chain Management in which areas he has presented papers and chaired sessions at many international and national conferences including at IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, IEOM Conference in Indonesia and Assumption University, Thailand etc. He received UGC National Research Award in 2003-05 to work on Supply Chain Management Practices in India based on which he published a book from Oxford University Press.

He got Dewang Mehta award for best Teacher in Operations Management in 2011. He also received Prof Y.K. Bhushan Most Influential Professor Award at Mumbai in 2022. He has published three books and a number of papers in reputed national and international journals. He completed ITP (International Teachers Programme) at Kellogg School of Management, USA in 2010.He also participated as a group leader at a Global Colloquium of Participant Centered learning held at Harvard Business School, USA.in 2013. He has been associated with Eastern and Western Dedicated Freight Corridors of Government of India as Chairperson of Social Impact Assessment Group. He is Chairperson of the Management Development Programs (MDPs) at FMS, University of Delhi. He is on Research Jury of NIFT, New Delhi. He is on board of studies and Faculty board member in a number of institutions including Aligarh Muslim University, Central University of Jammu and Indian Institute of Materials Management (IIMM) etc.