Prof. Dr. Balan Sundarakani has been a Full Professor of Supply Chain Management in the School of Business at the University of Wollongong in Dubai (UOWD) since Jan 2024. Prior to this role, he was serving as an Associate Professor (September 2011–December 2023) and Assistant Professor (May 2009–August 2011) at the UOWD. He has held various administrative roles at the UOWD, including as the MSCM Program Director for over eight years, the Discipline Leader for two years, an HDR Thesis Examination Committee member, a University Promotion Committee member, a Research Committee member, and many others. He earned a B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from M.S University and an M.Eng. in Industrial Engineering from the National Institute of Technology-Tiruchirappalli, a PhD in Supply Chain Management from the Indian Institute of Technology-Roorkee, India, and a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship from the Logistics Institute Asia Pacific, NUS, Singapore. He has won the “Research Excellence Award” a total of 5 times for his research performance at UOWD in 2010, 2012, 2021, and 2022, and also won the UOW Global Excellence in Research Award in 2023. He has 22 years of teaching and research experience in the area of Supply Chain Management across various universities, including the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Tiruchirappalli, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, the Hindustan University, Chennai, and the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, etc.
