Featured Speaker ~ Dr. Dale S. Rogers

 "Supply Chain Resilience in the COVID-19 World"

Dale Rogers is the ON Semiconductor Professor of Business at the Supply Chain Management department at Arizona State University.  He is also the the Director of of the Frontier Economies Logistics Lab and the Co-Director of the Internet edge Supply Chain Lab ASU. Dale is the Leader in Supply Chain Finance, Sustainability, and Reverse Logistics Practices for ILOS - Instituto de Logística e Supply Chain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2012 he became the first academic to receive the International Warehouse and Logistics Association Distinguished Service Award in its 130-year history. He is a Board Advisor to Flexe, Enterra Solutions and Droneventory and is a founding board member of the Global Supply Chain Resiliency Council, Reverse Logistics and Sustainability Council and serves on the board of directors for the Organización Mundial de Ciudades y Plataformas Logísticas. 

Dale is a leading researcher in the fields of reverse logistics, sustainable supply chain management, supply chain finance and secondary markets, has published in the leading journals of the supply chain and logistics fields. He has been principal investigator on research grants from numerous organizations. He is a senior editor at the Rutgers Business Journal, area editor at Annals of Management Science, and associate editor of the Journal of Business Logistics and the Journal of Supply Chain Management. 

He has made more than 300 presentations to professional organizations and has been a faculty member in numerous executive education programs at universities in the United States, Africa, China, Europe and South America as well as at major corporations and professional organizations.  Dr. Rogers has been a consultant to several companies and a principal investigator on research grants from numerous organizations and has been an author of several books including the lead author of a new book on the subject of Supply Chain Financing along with Rudi Leuschner and Tom Choi.