Omera Khan Email and Phone Number

Omera Khan PhD is an experienced leader and educator in logistics and supply chain management. She has gained international recognition as a global thought leader in supply chain risk management and resilience. Inspiring and visionary, as a professor, author and executive advisor, she brings over 20 years’ experience working on logistics and supply chain trends and foresights for clients that span multiple industry She has led numerous research projects, commissioned by government agencies, research councils and companies. Her research is published in several peer reviewed journals, book chapters, whitepapers and she is author of the “Handbook for Supply Chain Risk Management: Case Studies, Effective Practices and Emerging Trend,” “Product Design and the Supply Chain – Competing through Design,” “Re-conceptualizing Supply Chain Risk Management in a Post-Pandemic World – Creating Global Resilience.” Omera was awarded her PhD from Alliance Manchester Business School, UK. An MPhil from the University of Manchester and a BSc in Textile Design from the University of Huddersfield where she was awarded first prize for the Cloth Workers Foundation Award. Omera began her academic career at the Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management at Cranfield University. Following her post-doc years, she joined the University of Manchester as a Lecturer in Logistics and Supply Chain Management. She then joined Hull University Business School where she held the positions of Senior Lecturer, Director of the Logistics Institute and Deputy Head of the Management Systems Group. Omera’s career continued in Denmark, as a Professor of Operations Management at Denmark Technical University (DTU) and she has held several adjunct Professor positions in the Nordics. Omera is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply. She has served as a steering committee member of the Institute of Logistics Research Network, a global network of academics and practitioners involved in state-of-the-art logistics and supply chain research, and she was appointed a board member of the executive committee of the CILT “Leaders in Supply Chain” Forum, a group limited to the top 120 Logistics and Supply Chain Directors from Europe.