Supply Chain Frontiers issue #42
A number of staff changes have taken place at the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL).
Dr. Mahender Singh, former leader of the Center’s SC2020 Research Project, has moved to Malaysia where he is Rector of the international MIT SCALE Network Center, the Malaysia Institute for Supply Chain Innovation (MISI). In his new role at MISI, Singh is responsible for hiring faculty, designing educational programs, and setting up corporate partnerships.
Also changing titles is Dr. Jarrod Goentzel, who has left his position as Executive Director for the Supply Chain Management (SCM) Program to head up the MIT Humanitarian Response Lab (see Humanitarian Response Lab Unveiled news item).Goentzel has been very active in leading research and education in the humanitarian relief domain over the last several years, and set up the center’s first course in Humanitarian Logistics in the spring of 2011.
Finally, Dr. Bruce Arntzen, Director of the Education Thesis Partners Program, has become the new Executive Director of the SCM Program. Arntzen brings more than 20 years of supply chain work and teaching experience to the program. Additionally, over the last several years at MIT he has led numerous research projects, such as the ongoing Hi-Viz SC Visualization Project.
For more information on these changes contact MIT CTL Director of Communications Tara Faulkner.