{"id":3154,"date":"2024-05-13T10:19:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T04:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/supplychain\/?post_type=team&#038;p=3154"},"modified":"2024-06-05T15:28:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T09:58:58","slug":"robert-de-souza","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/supplychain\/2025\/team\/robert-de-souza\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert de Souza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Dr. Robert De Souza is the Executive Director and Chief Executive of The Logistics Institute \u2013 Asia Pacific since 2003. TLI &#8211; Asia Pacific is a premier national institute housed at the National University of Singapore for nurturing logistics excellence in industry, postgraduate research and education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Prior to joining TLI \u2013 Asia Pacific, Dr. de Souza was a senior industrialist and technopreneur serving as Executive Vice President for V3 Systems in the Asia Pacific, Corporate Senior Vice President and Global Chief Knowledge Officer at Viewlocity Inc. and founding Vice Chairman and CEO of SC21 Pte. Ltd.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Dr. de Souza is a Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States, a Senior Fellow at the National University of Singapore, a Fellow of IEOM and an Adjunct Fellow of SimTech.\u202f\u202f Dr de Souza has also held adjunct positions in Europe and USA and most recently as a Visiting Professor at City University of Hong Kong. Dr. de Souza also served as the Program Manager for Logistics and SCM (Urban Systems Initiative) at the National Agency for Science, Technology and Research in Singapore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">He leads teams of researchers in new initiatives and supports key ASEAN Universities in delivering Humanitarian and Urban Logistics Education. He has spoken internationally at many conferences and special sessions and has authored and contributed to many leading publications, also being a member of the Editorial Boards of select international journals and co-editor of an extensive special book series in Logistics published by Springer. Dr de Souza has also been consulted by many multinationals, universities and government agencies. 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