#17: Dr. Yossi Sheffi Director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics

This is episode #17 and today I am delighted to have with us today Dr. Yossi Sheffi, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he serves as Director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. He is an expert in systems optimization, risk analysis, and supply chain management, which are the subjects he teaches and researches at MIT. He is the author of many scientific publications and five books:
Urban Transportation Networks: Equilibrium Analysis with Mathematical Programming Methods (Prentice Hall, 1985)
The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage (MIT Press, 2005)
Logistics Clusters: Delivering Value and Driving Growth (MIT Press, 2012)
The Power of Resilience: How the Best Companies Manage the Unexpected (MIT Press 2015)
Balancing Green, When to Embrace Sustainability in a Business (and When Not To) (2018)

Under his leadership, MIT CTL launched many new educational, research, and industry/government outreach programs, leading to substantial growth. He founded the MITx MicroMasters in Supply Chain Management. He is the founder and the Director of MIT's Master of Supply Chain Management degree. He also led the international expansion of MIT CTL by launching the Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence (SCALE) global network of academic centers of education and research. The network includes centers modeled after MIT CTL in Zaragoza, Spain;Bogota, Colombia; and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

From 2007 to 2011 he served as the Director of the MIT Engineering Systems Division, where he set a strategy, revamped the PhD program, and set the division for future growth.

Outside the university Professor Sheffi has consulted with governments and leading manufacturing, retail and transportation enterprises all over the world. He is also an active entrepreneur, having founded and co-founded five successful companies:
Princeton Transportation Consulting Group Inc.
LogiCorp Inc.
e-Chemicals Inc.
Syncra Inc.
Logistics.com Inc.

Professor Sheffi, it is our honour and pleasure to have you with us today!