Prof. Ajinkya Tanksale
IIM Nagpur
Dr. Ajinkya Tanksale is working as Associate Professor in the Production & Operations Management area at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Nagpur. He earned his Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. His academic journey reflects a strong foundation in engineering and operations research, enriched by consistent excellence in performance. With more than a decade of rich international experience, Dr. Tanksale has held academic positions in India, the United States, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. He has worked as Assistant Professor at Clarkson University, USA, Newcastle University, UK and IIT (BHU) Varanasi, India, as well as a postdoctoral fellow at Sabanci University, Istanbul, under the prestigious TUBITAK fellowship. His teaching portfolio spans operations analytics, logistics management, supply chain management, and decision sciences, and he has supervised multiple doctoral and postgraduate theses that advanced both theory and practice in areas such as healthcare networks, food redistribution, and humanitarian logistics.
Prof. Vasco Sanchez Rodrigues
Cardiff Business School
Dr Vasco Sanchez Rodrigues is a Full Professor of Sustainable Supply Chain Management at Cardiff University. His research focuses on wicked problems affecting society and industry such as NetZero, water resource management, land use and food waste prevention and mitigation. Vasco is an industry-led academic who has undertaken successful applied-research projects that are generating substantial poisitive impact on leading companies from the retail, food and drinks, and logistics sectors of the UK, France, the US, Germany, South Africa, South Korea, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Brazil, and Argentina. Furthermore, he has published over 50 papers in prime international academic journals and is leading several applied research projects that together have £4 million of external funding. Prior to joining UK academia, Vasco spent six years working in Venezuela, Mexico, Colombia, and Brazil managing manufacturing operations and project improvement implementations in BIMBO Organisation, the second biggest bakery multinational worldwide, holding a range of supply chain-based management roles. Vasco is the Logistics & Operations Management Section’s Head and sits in the Management Board of Cardiff Business School and acts the Chair of the CILT-sponsored Logistics Research Network Forum, the leading logistics research network in the world. He acts as external examiners for higher education programs of several UK universities and actively developed short training courses for organizations such as Ocado, among others.
Prof. Dnyaneshwar (Danny) Mogale
Cardiff Business School
Dr Dnyaneshwar Mogale is an Associate Professor of Logistics and Operations Management at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University. His research focuses on supply chain and logistics modelling, resilience, and sustainability, with particular expertise in optimisation and simulation approaches for addressing complex real-world challenges in logistics and supply chains. Dr Mogale has secured research funding from organisations including Innovate UK, ESRC, and Global Wales, and has worked with industry partners such as Yusen Logistics, Ocado, Moy Park, and Tower Cold Chain Solutions. He has published extensively in leading international journals in logistics, operations, and supply chain management. He serves as Regional Associate Editor of the International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications and is actively involved with the Logistics Research Network (LRN). He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).