Dr. Robert De Souza is the Executive Director and Chief Executive of The Logistics Institute – Asia Pacific since 2003. TLI – Asia Pacific is a premier national institute housed at the National University of Singapore for nurturing logistics excellence in industry, postgraduate research and education.

Prior to joining TLI – 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. 

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.   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.

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. Dr. de Souza is a Chartered Engineer and serves on multiple industry, government and academic committees and serves on the Advisory Boards of SCALA, SUSS Business School Logistics Program and University Duisburg-Essen Centre for Logistics and Traffic.

Dr. de Souza received his Ph.D., M.Sc. and B.Sc. Honours in the United Kingdom.  

In 2014, Dr. De Souza was conferred the IEOM Distinguished Service Award by his peers in 2104, the SCA Supply Chain Educator Award in 2017, the Distinguished Industry Award in 2018 and most notably the Public Administration Medal (Bronze) by the President of the Republic of Singapore.