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Omera Khan PhD is an experienced practitioner and educator in logistics and supply chain management and has gained international recognition for her research and thought leadership in supply chain risk and resilience. Inspiring and visionary, Omera is skilled at presenting complex subjects in a simple and thought-provoking manner and is regularly invited as a keynote speaker and panellist at global conferences and corporate events. She brings strategic foresights and insights in her analysis of supply chain trends to clients that span across multiple industry verticals.

Following an academic career spanning over two decades, she joined Maersk as their Head of Supply Chain Insights and Trends Lab. Prior, to joining Maersk, Omera was Professor of Supply Chain Management and Director of the MSc in Logistics and Supply Chain Management at Royal Holloway University of London (UK). 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 at Cranfield University, 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.