Vipul Jainis an Associate Professor of Supply Chain and Logistics Management at RMIT University Melbourne, Australia, with extensive international academic and leadership experience. He has held senior academic roles at Victoria University of Wellington, including Undergraduate Programme Director, PhD Programme Director, and Research Director, where he shaped academic programmes and research strategy. His global experience includes visiting professorships and research roles in the UK and France, leading a major EU-funded logistics project, and prior faculty and programme leadership positions at IIT Delhi, where he also established a supply chain research lab to strengthen industry and government engagement. Vipul is highly cited in his area of research on Operations and Supply Chain Management and has more than 150 archival publications to his credit in high impact factor journals, as well as conference papers, edited books, and books chapters. Vipul demonstrates strong scholarly leadership through his editorial roles, serving as Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editor, and Area Editor for many prestigious journals, where he plays a key role in shaping research quality, direction, and impact in the field. He is also an editorial board member for 15 prestigious international journals and has guest edited many special issues for reputed international journals, along with serving as editor for seven book series. Vipul has been actively involved in conducting Management Development/Training Programmes for Senior Managers and Executives of Public and Private Organizations on various issues and challenges encountered in Operations, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management. Vipul is involved as a general chair, programme chair, scientific and advisory committee member for various prestigious international conferences and has chaired many sessions in INFORMS, IEEE IEEM conferences in USA, Europe, Hong Kong, Asia Pacific etc. Vipul was the co-chair of the Australia New Zealand Academy of Management 2023 conference held from Dec 5 to 7 in Wellington.