Our people

Meet our Centre for Supply Chain Management (CSCM) members and learn about their research interests.

Director

Dr. Aadhaar Chaturvedi, Director 

Advisory Board members

Member Position
Dave Christie Supply Chain Strategy Director, Tainui Group Holdings
Deena Clarkson Chief Executive Officer, CODA Group
Simon Dedman Managing Director, Kuehne+Nagel
Anne Dunne General Manager Supply Chain, Air New Zealand
James Feeney Managing Director, Alignment Consulting
Reinhold Goeschl Independent Director, TradeWindow
Aaron Greene COO, Toll Holdings
Debbie Howarth Director Industry Engagement, NZDF
Charles Lott National Manager, Equipment and Logistics, Fire and Emergency NZ
Andrea Manley General Manager Strategy and Innovation, Napier Port
Liz May Chief Executive, Shopcare
Chloe Surridge Group General Manager, Airports, Air New Zealand
Suzanne O'Leary Director, January Group
Boyd Piebanga Director Supply Chain, KPMG
Jonti Rhodes General Manager Supply Chain, Facilities, Sustainability, Fisher & Paykel Healthcare
Louise Wood Chief Supply Chain Officer, Sanford Ltd

Research centre members

Dr. Aadhaar Chaturvedi, Director

  • Sourcing
  • e-Auctions
  • Supply chain management
  • Sharing economy platforms

Honorary Professor David Robb

  • Supply chain improvement in systems with supply and demand
  • Service-level/inventory trade-offs - empirical and modelling approaches uncertainty
  • Supply chain practice and performance in China

Dr Valery Pavlov, Senior Lecturer

  • Supply chain coordination
  • Behavioural operations

Dr Gabrielle Peko, Lecturer

  • Business process design
  • Supply chain management

Dr Timofey Shalpegin, Lecturer

  • Incentive conflicts in collaborative product development
  • Models of supply chain coordination at product development stage
  • Early supplier involvement

Dr Jaeseok Lee, Lecturer

  • Management of technology
  • Supply chain management
  • Sustainable operations management

Mojtaba Mahdavi, Adjunct Lecturer

  • Supply chain strategy
  • Supply chain design

Dr Subhamoy Ganguly, Senior Lecturer

  • Food Loss and Waste
  • Academic Admissions
  • Health Care Operations

Dr Mahdi Mahmoudzadeh, Lecturer

  • Behavioural operations
  • Sustainable operations
  • Supply chain analytics

Dr Sarah Marshall, Senior Lecturer 

  • Inventory management
  • Modelling uncertainty in supply chains
  • Supply chain analytics

Administrative staff

Dinah Towle
Coordinator
Email: d.towle@auckland.ac.nz

PhD students

Lahiru Gunasekara, PhD Student

  • "Optimisation for used product take-back for a Circular Economy"

Param Iyer, PhD Student

  • "Optimisation opportunities in temperature-controlled supply chains"

Mahsa Boroushaki, PhD student

  • "Environmental trade-offs in international trade of agro-based products"

Na Luo (Rona), PhD student

  • "Food Loss Reduction in China’s Food Supply Chain: a Contract Mechanism Perspective"

Miriam Sierfert, PhD student

  • "Transparency and certifications in ethical sourcing a key differentiator in the fashion industry"

Diep N. Ly, PhD student

  • "Financial metrics that predict supply chain effectiveness"

Aida Shams, PhD student 

  • "Decreasing Length of Stay in New Zealand Emergency Departments"

External members

Professor Tava Olsen, Melbourne Business School

  • Supply chain management, pricing and inventory control
  • Stochastic models of production, service and health systems
  • Agricultural supply chains

Dr Riccardo Mogre, Assistant Professor, Durham University Business School, UK

  • Supply chain risk management
  • Stochastic models of production and service systems
  • Technology adoption in operations and supply chains

Dr Lincoln Wood, Senior Lecturer, University of Otago, New Zealand

  • Operations and supply chain management in construction
  • Performance in logistics service relationships

Dr Quan (Spring) Zhou, Lecturer, University of Wollongong, Australia

  • Supply chain management and coordination
  • Humanitarian supply chain, nonprofit operations

Dr Yangyan (Peter) Shi, Associate Professor, Macquarie University, Australia

  • Third-party purchase
  • Third-party logistics
  • Operations and supply chain management

Associate Professor Arvind Tripathi, Kansas University, US

  • Online markets
  • Social networks
  • Open innovation
  • Supply chain management

Associate Professor Fernando Oliveira, University of Bradford, England

  • Energy Supply Chains
  • Quantitative Risk Management
  • Revenue Management and Dynamic Pricing
  • Sustainability

Alumni

Hendrik Reefke, PhD
Lecturer in Supply Chain Management, School of Management, Cranfield University

Chin Boo Soon, PhD
Asia Pacific Sales and Technical Manager, BT9 International

Lincoln Wood, PhD
Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management, Department of Management, University of Otago
Adjunct Research Fellow at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia

Samsul Islam, PhD

Dusan Ku, PhD

Quan (Spring) Zhou, PhD
Lecturer in School of Management, Operations and Marketing, University of Wollongong

Xiaoyan (Miya) Qian, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Management Science and Engineering, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, DaLian, China

Mojtaba Mahdavi, PhD  
Adjunct Lecturer, ISOM department, University of Auckland