Prof Benny Tjahjono is Professor of Supply Chain Management at the Centre for Business in Society, Coventry University in the UK. His overarching research area includes Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Production Engineering, Service Engineering, and contemporary applications of Simulation Modelling. His research track record has been demonstrated by winning a number of research grants from the Engineering & Physical Research Council (EPSRC), InnovateUK, European Union, overseas funding agencies and directly from the UK industry sectors. He was one of the Principal Investigators and a member of a consortium consisting of seven universities in Europe recently awarded the Horizon2020 MSCA Innovative Training Network aiming to formulate the service-oriented business for the European Circular Economy.

He has published over 80 papers in refereed academic journals, conference proceedings, books, practitioners’ journals and newspaper. He has completed the supervision of over 100 PhD and MSc students, and currently leads a team of four doctoral researchers in many emerging areas related to supply chain and operations management.

He is actively involved in nurturing Indonesian postgraduate students and young researchers in the UK. He has been serving as the Chair of the Board of Reviewers for the Annual Indonesian Scholar International Conventions (ISIC) and the Editor-in-Chief of their Proceedings. He was a member of the Joint Working Group consisting of Deputy Vice-Chancellors of UK universities (led by the UK Higher Education International Unit) and the Indonesian Higher Education, leading to the signing of the Government to Government (G2G) Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the UK and Indonesian governments. When he was at Cranfield, he initiated 3 MoUs with Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS), and Binus University. He pioneered the Double Degree Masters programme in Engineering and Technology, also with Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB).

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7503-7500

Coventry University

Professor

Supply Chain Management

• Operations Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Production Engineering
• Service Engineering