Speakers

Mark Fagan is a Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. Mr. Fagan teaches Operations Management, Systems Thinking and Supply Chain Management and Policy Development in the degree program. In executive education programs, he teaches about service delivery and artificial intelligence. He leads the School’s Autonomous Vehicles Policy Initiative. He also works with organizations on adopting artificial intelligence to improve operations. Mark Fagan has consulted to management in the public and private sectors on strategy issues for more than 30 years and was a founding partner of Norbridge, Inc. a general management consulting firm with a distinctive competence in the transportation sector.

Dr. Fioravanti is a Principal Specialist in the Transport Division of the IDB, Head Group responsible for Dialogues and New Business. Before joining the Bank, he worked as a supply chain manager at Hewlett Packard and as an associate researcher at the University of Campinas. He holds a master’s degree in Public Policy from Harvard University and in Supply Chain Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology / ZLC (Spain); and a Ph.D. in Transport Engineering from the University of Campinas.

Dr. Kraiselburd is the Senior Research Director & Vice-Rector at Tecnológico de Monterrey, He is a Senior manager with C-level and VP-level experience in multi country environments, both in Startups and world leading multinationals (ex-McKinsey Senior Practice Expert/AP, ex-Citi regional VP). Dr. Kraiselburd holds a Doctorate of Business Administration in Technology and Operations Management from Harvard Business School, a Master of Science in Industrial and Systems Engineering from University of Southern California, and an MBA in operations from USC Marshall School of Business.

Jorge Barnett Lawton is Managing Director of the Georgia Tech Logistics Innovation & Research Center – Panama. From that role he leads local and regional projects related to the advancement of logistics and transport, digital transformation, logistics cluster performance, supply chain and distribution network design, and process innovation. He earned a Ph.D. in logistics and supply chain management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Zaragoza Logistics Center International Logistics Program. He also holds a Master in industrial engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from the Technological University of Panama. He has over two decades of experience in the private and academic sectors in Panama, Spain, Mexico and Argentina, occupying various roles in the fields of manufacturing, project management, technology, logistics, research and academia.

Dr. Spyros Lekkakos is Professor of Supply Chain Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Zaragoza International Logistics Program and Research Affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Transportation and Logistics. His research and teaching focus on the interface of finance and operations, inventory management, procurement, and supply chain strategy. He is co-author of Practical Finance for Operations and Supply Chain Management (MIT Press, 2020). Alongside his academic work, he has held senior positions in industry, including Supply Chain Counselor at Clariant AG, and earlier served as an officer in the Hellenic Air Force, attaining the rank of Major.

Dr. Monsreal is a full-time Senior Research Scientist at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) with 15+ years of project management experience in the private and public sector, and 10+ years of hands-on and managing experience in logistics and supply chain operations in companies such as Coca-Cola BEPENSA (Beverages Industry), Reckitt & Colman (Retail and FMCG Industry), Holcim (Cement Industry) and FEMSA-Heineken (Beverages Industry), among others.

Dr. Monsreal holds a Ph.D. (CUM LAUDE), and a Master Degree of Engineering in Logistics and Supply Chain Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Zaragoza Logistics Center/University of Zaragoza, International Logistics Program. He holds a second Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, from the High Management Center of Engineering and Technology (CADIT), Northern Anáhuac University, México. Also, he bears an Advanced Studies Diploma (DEA) in Manufacturing Processes from University of Zaragoza, Spain, a Master Degree of Science in Sustainable Business and Regional Planning from the National Technological System, Mexico (ITM-Mérida); and a Postdoctorate from Universität Bremen – Institut für Seeverkehrswirtschaft und Logistik (ISL), Germany.

He has been the technical Director of the AutoID LAB at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Global Scale Network – ZLC, Spain; and was the Director of the Latin-American Center of Logistics Innovation-México, and a researcher at the Institut für Seeverkehrswirtschaft und Logistik, Germany.

In his time at the private sector Dr. Monsreal managed large operations serving markets of over 20 million people, with 35 distribution centers and warehouses, 12+ production plants, and thousands of clients/points of delivery. These operations entailed planning and decision-making related to multi-modal, short- and long-haul and last-mile transportation, facility location and investments, and supply chain network design.

At TTI, Dr. Monsreal’s work involves fluidity and multi-modal freight flow analyses, data analytics, data generation, and data merging tasks for which he has contributed to develop new methods, and new approaches using AI and ML techniques.