Dr. Joakim Kembro is Associate Professor and Deputy Director for the Master's Programme in Logistics and Supply Chain Management at Lund University. He is a member of the Pedagogical Academy at the Faculty of Engineering and was awarded the distinction of Excellent Teaching Practitioner. Prior to joining academia, he worked as a logistician in various positions with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and World Food Programme (WFP).

Dr. Kembro’s research includes warehouse operations, retail logistics, humanitarian logistics and preparedness, and he recently started two new projects focusing on circular retail and sustainable consumption.

He publishes in leading OM and SCM journals such as Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, and Journal of Supply Chain Management, and has received multiple Emerald awards as well as the Bernard J. LaLonde best paper runner-up award. He is currently Senior Editor at Journal of Business Logistics and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management.