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Guilherme Luz Tortorella Ph.D.

Guilherme Luz Tortorella is professor of Industrial Engineering of the Melbourne School of Engineering at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He holds a PhD in Production Systems and has more than 18 years of practical experience as a manager and consultant in many industries such as automotive, food, metal-mechanics, machine and equipment. He has authored more than 100 papers published in highly ranked peer-reviewed journals, and is Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Lean Systems and Associate Editor of Operations Management Journal and Production Journal.

Flavio S. Fogliatto Ph.D.

Fogliatto holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Rutgers University, USA (1997). He was visiting scholar at the CNAM (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers – Paris, France) in 2005–2006. Currently he is Full Professor at the IE Department of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), where he served as Graduate Director for three terms and Department Head for two terms. His expertise is in the areas of Quality Engineering, Production Analysis, and Operations Research. His main research interests are healthcare operations management, quality control and optimization of products and processes, mass customization, and quantitative methods in production control. He received the IIE Transactions best paper award in 2002, the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management Best Conference Paper award, and best papers awards at the 2010 (Rotterdam, Holand) and 2012 (Rennes, France) editions of the Sensometrics Conference. His research has been published in the International Journal of Production Research, IIE Transactions, Food Quality & Preference, Production Planning and Control and International Journal of Production Economics, among others.

Gopalakrishnan Narayanamurthy Ph.D.

Gopalakrishnan Narayanamurthy (Gopal) is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Operations and Supply Chain Management at the University of Liverpool Management School (ULMS), UK. Prior to joining ULMS, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. He completed his doctoral studies from the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, India. During his doctoral studies, Gopal has been a Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellow at Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. He researches in the area of healthcare operational excellence, transformative service research, disruptive technologies, and decision making. His research has been accepted for publication in Journal of Service Research, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Business Ethics, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, Computers & Operations Research, Production Planning & Control, and Computers in Industry, among others.

Alejandro F. Mac Cawley Ph.D.

Alejandro is an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the School of Engineering and at the Department of Agricultural Economics at the School of Agronomy and Forestry Science at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC). He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and my undergraduate degree is in Agronomy with an specialization in Agricultural Economics from the School of Agronomy and Forestry Science at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC).His research interests focus on the application of OR techniques to natural resource-based systems and healthcare with a focus on supply chain coordination, production planning, lean production, industry 4.0, scheduling, decision support systems and reliability.

Roberto Vassolo Ph.D.

Roberto is a professor of Business Policy and Strategy, and director of the Doctoral Program and the Open Program in Strategic Leadership at the IAE Business School in Austral University (Argentina). He holds a Ph.D. in Strategic Management, Purdue University (USA). His research focuses on the strategic challenges of companies operating in turbulent macroeconomic environments and those that compete in natural resource industries. In addition, he has published in the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Academy of Management Perspectives, and in HBR Latin American Edition, among others. He is also co-author of the book Strategic Management in Emerging Countries.

Diego Tlapa Ph.D.

Diego received the B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from the Technological Institute of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico in 2002. In 2007 he obtained the M.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC), the Doctor in Science degree from UABC in 201, and a Postdoctoral stay at the University of California, Irvine in 2018. He is currently a professor of Industrial Engineering at the School of Engineering, Architecture and Design of the Autonomous University of Baja California, Mexico. His research focuses on supply chain management, and processes improvement projects including six sigma and lean manufacturing. He is member of the National System of Researchers of the National Council of Science and Technology in Mexico and member of the optimization of industrial processes network (ROPRIN). He has participated in several research projects related to process improvement and is author/coauthor of more than 50 journal papers, book chapters, and conference papers.

Maneesh Kumar Ph.D.

Maneesh Kumar is a Professor of Service Operations at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University,UK. He also holds an honorary Visiting Professor role at Cardiff & Vale University Health Board. He conducts inter-disciplinary applied research in the area of Operational Excellence, including topics such as Quality Management, Lean Six Sigma (LSS), Lean, Green, and Innovation (iLEGO), Healthcare Process/Service Innovation, Knowledge Clusters for capability enhancement within SMEs. This has resulted in the publication of over 165 journals and conference papers, edited books, and conference proceedings. In 2020, he was recognized with the ‘Business Innovation’Award @ Cardiff University’s Innovation and Impact Awards 2020 for the project with Siemens Logistics. He was also recognized by the Industrial Engineering & Operations Management (IEOM) Society at the 2nd African International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (7th-10th December 2020), where he was also invited as a Keynote Speaker. The IEOM Award Committee has bestowed 'Distinguished Professor Award'. He has been recognized for his outstanding contributions to teaching at Cardiff University’s Celebrating Excellence Awards 2018 in the category of 'Excellence in Teaching including Training & Development'. He has been involved in delivering LSS training up to Black Belt level and delivered several workshops on LSS and Industry 4.0 applications in different type and size of industries.

Marcelo Werneck Ph.D.

Marcelo Werneck Barbosa is a researcher at the Department of Agricultural Economics of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He received his BSc and MSc in Computer Science and his PhD on Business Administration (Operations Management and Logistics) from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil. His main research interests include digital transformation, sustainable supply chain management, and agri-food supply chains. He has published papers in several journals, such as International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Cleaner Production, International Journal of Logistics Management, Global Food Security, Agribusiness, International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, Technology in Society, among others.

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