Dr. Wang Wei
Research Fellow and Director General, Institute for Market Economy, Development Research Center of China State Council
Specialties: Logistics Policy, Service Economy, Urbanization.
Dr. Wang is an internationally recognized logistics expert. She is an advisor to the China National Inter-Ministerial Joint Committee for Development of Modern Logistics as well as a consultant for the Economic Development and Research Bureau of the Asian Development Bank. She is also a professor at Renmin University, and University of International Business and Economics. She was previously a visiting scholar at OECD in Paris and US RAND Corp. She speaks English and Chinese.
Mr. Richard Gluck
President Of Sino American Logistics Council, LLC, Vice President Of International Federation Of Freight Forwarders Association’s (FIATA), A PrincipalAttorney At Foster Garvey Law
Specialties: Logistics Policy, Service Economy, Urbanization.
Mr. Gluck is an international transportation law expert with over thirty-five years of experience practicing transportation law, and appears regularly before U.S. Federal government departments and agencies, and represented the international freight forwarding industry at the United Nations Conference on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) in its deliberations on the “Rotterdam Rules,” and on the pending convention on electronic shipment documentation. He is also the legal counsel to the Transportation Intermediaries Association (TIA), the largest trade association for third party logistics companies in the United States. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago (1972) and the Georgetown University Law Center (1978). During 2013 Mr. Gluck was a Harvard University Advanced Leadership Fellow.
Mr. Tan Xiaoping
Director Of Transportation And Logistics Department, China Merchants Group
Mr. Tan is a transportation policy expert. He drafted the China national multimodal transportation regulation, Trailer Pick-up Transportation standard, Non-Asset based logistics development, and other Chinese transportation policies. Mr. Tan Xiaoping was previously the Director for the Logistics Research Institute, and Deputy Chief Engineer of the Planning and Research Institute of the Ministry of Transport. Following that, he was the Director of the Sinotrans Multimodal Transport Innovation Center.
Prof. Kannan Ramanathan
University Of Texas At Dallas
Specialties: Six Sigma, operation management, strategic management, quality control, electronic data statistics and modeling analysis. Prof. Ramanathanis the Associate Director for the Center for Intelligent Supply Networks, UT Dallas. He has mentored consulting projects using the Lean Six Sigma framework with GE, JC Penney, and other major corporations. Prior to his academic career, he held a number of leadership roles at General Electric, including supervising GE's risk and value management technology laboratory. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois. Prof. Ramanathan has taught in several developing countries including India, China, and Mexico. He speaks English, German, and French.
Prof. Douglas Hales
College Of Business, University Of Rhode Island
Specialties: Global Supply Chain Management and Lean Six Sigma.
Prof. Hales has won numerous teaching awards including the Beta Gamma Sigma Professor of the Year Award, the Best Graduate and Undergraduate Teacher Awards, and the Researcher of the Year Award, among others. His research interests include Global Port Competitiveness and Applied Process Improvement. Since 2004, he has 26 referred publications and 40 conference international papers and presentations in seven countries. He completed his Ph.D. at Clemson University. Prof. Hales is a member of the GSCC Steering Committee.
Prof. Feng Tian
Governor State University
Specialties: Supply chain management, operation system optimization, and stochastic modeling.
In addition to teaching, Prof. Tian serves on the university Academic Program Review Committee and Faculty Development Advisory Council.His current research focuses on integrated production planning and inventory optimization, and service constrained optimization, the optimization of by-product system, and how the service level constraint affects the operations decision. Prior to coming to the U.S., he studied and taught at Xi’an Jiaotong University in China. He completed his DBA from Boston University. He speaks English and Chinese.
Dr. Herve Philippe
Senior Advisor At The Innovation Task Force Of The Directorate General For Transport, French Ministry Of Transport
Specialties: autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, transport infrastructure and international logistics.
Mr. Philippe is an international expert in the fields of autonomous vehicles, and artificial intelligence with 40 years of experience with transport infrastructure. Mr. Philippe was a member of the French General Consulate, Shanghai from 2004 to 2008 where he setup a number of French-China education cooperation programs. He also founded and was the CEO of LPDA, a consulting company in the field of ITS and transport, in Shanghai from 2008-2014. He graduated from Paul Sabatier Toulouse III University in 1989 with his Ph.D. in computer science-artificial intelligence. He speaks English and French.
Mr. Jerome Le Maire
Head Of Group Supply Chain Sales Support, Vaillant Group
Specialties: Supply Chain Strategy, Supply Chain Performance, Supply Chain Digitization and Supply Chain Sustainability.
Mr. Le Maire has 20 years of experience as the Supply Chain Director. Vaillant Group is a global market and technology leader in the fields of heating, ventilation and air-conditioning technology. His prior roles with Vaillant Group included Head of Group SCM production, where he was responsible for the supply chain network of 10 plants in Europe, Turkey and China. He speaks English and French.
Mr. Victor Dolcemasolo
Freight And Logistics Project Manager In Logistics For The Directorate General For Transport, French Ministry Of Transport
Specialties: digital technology applications in logistics and transport regulations.
Mr. Dolcemasolo is an expert in digital technology applications in logistics and transport regulations. He has led research departments with various government entities in France since 1992, including the road transport traffic office, Interdepartmental Roads Department, Laboratoire Central PontsetChaussées, Western Paris Regional Laboratory. He speaks English and French.
Prof. Armin Schwolgin (Retired)
Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg (DHBW) In Lörrach
Specialties: International logistics and Supply chain, railway and intermodal transportation.
Prof. Schwolgin served as the Dean of the DHBW School of Business. Before joining academia, he worked in Bayer US and Bayer Brazil. After returning to the parent company, he was in charge of the central control system and served as a member of the board of directors of DB Regio AG, responsible for finance and control, procurement and information technology. He graduated from Ruhr University Bochum in 1984 with his Ph.D. in Economics. He taught in China and Europe. He speaks English and German.
Prof. John Wu
California State University
Specialties: Supply chain, international management, green supply chain, e-commerce logistics, transportation systems.
Dr. John Wu is a tenured full professor of Supply Chain and Transportation at California State University, San Bernardino. Dr. Wu received his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University and an MA from the University of Texas. Before coming to the U.S., Dr. Wu studied and worked in Taiwan. He has consulted for Merck, Conrail, Compaq, Payless Shoesource, and McCormick in the U.S., and Sony in Mexico; DTG, Swire, and ZPMC in China; and Taiwan Cellular. He has spearheaded several joint education programs between American universities and universities in Asia pacific. He speaks English and Chinese.
Mr. Scott W. Lane
Chief Information Officer, Beaver Street Fisheries
Specialties: Cold Chain Logistics, third party logistics.
His previous positions include Vice President of Supply Chain Services for Penser SC, Director of Technology for W&O Supply, Solution Design Manager for CEVA Logistics. He is an Adjunct Professor for the University of North Florida and has taught Foundations of Transportation, Supply Chain Management, Logistics Sub-Systems; Warehouse Management, Purchasing Management.
Mr. Johnny Jiang
Senior Director, FTI Consulting Group
Specialties: automotive Logistics, food logistics, global supply Chain, operation management.
Mr. Jiang is a recognized supply chain expert with over 15 years of senior management experience in the Asia Pacific region. He has worked across many industries with multinational corporations such as Trane, Eaton, Basell, and Delphi. He is the Founder & CKO of Insighting Supply Chain. He is a Lean Black Belt, APICS CPIM, and ASTL CTL as well as IATA and IMO Dangerous Goods expert. He has taught at Liverpool University and Skema Business School China Campus. He speaks English and Chinese.
Mr. Chung Tam
Executive Director, Sino-American Logistics Council
Specialties: Intermodal Transportation, logistics and transport policy and food supply chain.
Mr. Tam has over 30 years of industry experience working in North America and China. He has served as an advisor to the U.S. Department of Transportation for the U.S.-China Transportation Forum. He is a member of the United Nations Global Partnership for Sustainable Transport expert group. His recent research include the World Bank/China Ministry of Transport study - “Improving the Efficiency of the Logistics Industry from a Policy Perspective – Experience from the U.S. and the EU”, Logistics development strategy for the Greater Bay Area, and benchmarking study of Wuhan City and Chicago as an intermodal logistics hub.
Prof. Metin Cakanyildirm
University Of Texas At Dallas
Specialties: Supply Chain optimization, demand and revenue management, production management; operations management, supply networks.
Prof. Cakanyildirm teaches courses on Demand and Revenue Management, Production Management, Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, and Advanced Supply Networks. He represents the faculty in the Supply Chain Management Industry Advisory Committee. He is the chairman of the Dallas branch of the Operations Management Institute and the Vice Chairman of the POM National Laboratory for Production Operations Management. He has taught in Turkey, Taiwan, China, Singapore and South Korea. He completed his Ph.D. in Operations Research from Cornell University. He speaks English and Turkish.
Prof. Haozhe Chen
Iowa State University
Specialties: Supply chain integration, reverse logistics, international supply chain management/logistics, supply chain relationships.
Prof. Chen is an Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management at Iowa State University. He holds an MBA from The University of Alabama and a Ph.D. from The University of Oklahoma. Before coming to the U.S., Dr. Chen studied and accumulated 8 years’ of managerial experience in international trade in China. He received the Emerald Outstanding Paper of the Year, Notable Article from Harvard Business School. His recent research on Reverse Logistics was published by Oxford University Press. He speaks English and Chinese.
Prof. MameBigueGningue
Normandy Business School
Specialties: Supply chain management, risk management, performance management and decision support systems.
Prof. MameGningue is an Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management and Logistics.Her research covers security risk management in the global supply chain, Ports’ Performance Management Model etc. She worked in Soget SA, Nestle, Air France Industries and Samsung before joining academia. She is the academic Director of MS Supply Chain, Logistics and Innovation in the university. She completed her Ph.D. from Le Havre-Normandie University. She speaks English and French.
Prof. Koray Ozpolat
University Of Rhode Island
Specialties:Trust and Technology in Supply Chain Management, Humanitarian Logistics and Disaster Relief.
Prof. Ozpolat is an Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management at URI.He has taught logistics and supply chain management, operations management and information technologies courses in the U.S., Turkey, Kyrgyzstan and China. He was a Logistics Systems Analyst for the United Nations where he provided process mapping and programming support to the Procurement and Logistics Division. He was VP for Technology at the Northeast Decision Sciences Institute. He completed his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. He speaks English and Turkish.
Prof. Tian Xue
Beijing Wuzi University
Specialties: Operation management, international logistics and supply chain.
Prof. Tian is an Associate Professor at Beijing Wuzi University. She has authored over seventy articles and book chapters on issues of logistics and supply chain strategy. Prof. Tian has been a visiting scholar at California State University, UMN(University of Minnesota Twin City, US) and DHBW (DualeHochschule Baden-Wuerttemberg, Lorrah, Germany). Her teaching and research in supply chain management and operation has led her to positions as a consultant and trainer to more than 10 companies, including China Railway Express, Nippon Express(China), Schenker (China) etc. He speaks English and Chinese.
Mr. Dong Zhonglang
Partner Of Hiddenhill Capital And Managing Partner Of Eastern Bell Venture Capital
Specialties:Trust and Technology in Supply Chain Management, Humanitarian Logistics and Disaster Relief.
Mr. Dong has 26 years of experience in the logistics & supply chain industry.Mr. Dong worked in the Ministry of Machinery Industry in 1984. He was Assistant General Manager, Director and Sales Director of Linde Xiamen Forklift Co., Ltd, the founder of Oulin Logistics Consulting Co., Ltd, Director of Weichai Power Logistics. He can speak Chinese and English.
Dr. Zhou Zhigang
Founder And Chairman Of Hubei Prolog Technology Co., Ltd.
Dr. Zhou has 22 years of experience in supply chain and logistics management, logistics site selection, planning, process design, equipment selection, system requirement development, system testing, system installation etc.He received his Doctorate Degree in Supply Chain and Logistics Management from Wuhan University of Technology. He was the Vice General Manager in Jointown Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd. from 2001 to 2009. After that, he worked as General Manager of Beijing Fuji Rongtong Technology Co. from 2009 till 2012.
Mr. Jin Li
Vice President, Sino-American Logistics Council
Mr. Jin has 15+ years of experience in supply chain management, having worked in several big-name corporations in US. He has first-hand e-commerce fulfillment experience since 2013. He worked as an operations manager in an Amazon’s order fulfillment center in US. Later, he joined a start-up PlanetBox.com and was responsible for the company’s whole e-commerce fulfillment operation, till the company was successfully bought out in 2019. Jin Li holds a master’s degree in Supply Chain Management from MIT.
