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Director, MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics
Elisha Gray II Professor of Engineering Systems
Professor, MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor, MIT Institute of Data Science and Society
Professor Yossi Sheffi is Director of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL), and Director and Founder of the Master of Engineering in Logistics Program. He is a faculty member of the MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, as well as the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society. He is a global expert in systems optimization, risk analysis and supply chain management. Additionally, he is the author of a text book Urban Transportation Networks: Equilibrium Analysis with Mathematical Programming Methods (1985) and eight management books: The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage (2005); Logistics Clusters: Delivering Value and Driving Growth (2012); The Power of Resilience: How the Best Companies Manage the Unexpected (2015); ); Balancing Green: When to Embrace Sustainability in Business (and When Not to) (2018); The New (Ab)Normal: Reshaping Business and Supply Chain Strategy Beyond Covid-19 (2020), and A Shot in the Arm: How Science, Engineering, and Supply Chains Converged to Vaccinate the World (October 2021), Strategic Planning for Dynamic Supply Chains: Preparing for Uncertainty using Scenarios (2022) which he wrote with Prof. Shardul Phadnis and Prof. Chris Caplice, and the latest book written by Yossi Sheffi is The Magic Conveyor Belt: Supply Chains, AI, & the Future of Work (2023).
Under his leadership, MIT CTL launched many educational, research, and industry/government outreach programs, including the MIT Master of Engineering in Logistics program in 1998, the MIT Master of Applied Sciences in Supply Chain Management in 2018, and the MITx MicroMasters® Program in Supply Chain Management, an online offering launched in 2015 that has reached over 1 million enrolled learners in more than 190 countries.
Prof. Sheffi launched an international expansion of MIT CTL, establishing academic logistics and supply chain management centers worldwide. These include the MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program in Spain, launched in 2003; the Center for Latin America Logistics Innovation launched in 2007; the Luxembourg Center of Logistics, launched in 2015; the Ningbo Supply Chain Institute in China, launched in 2016; and the UK Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence (SCALE) Centre at Loughborough University in 2024. Collectively, these centers operate as the MIT Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence (SCALE) global network, which he leads.
Outside academia, Sheffi has consulted with numerous governments and leading manufacturing, retail, and transportation enterprises all over the world. He has also founded or co-founded five successful companies: LogiCorp (acquired by Ryder in 1994); PTCG (acquired by Sabre in 1996); e-Chemicals (acquired by AspenTech in 2001); Logistics.com (acquired by Manhattan Associates in 2003), and Syncra Systems (acquired by Oracle in 2004). Read more about each of these here.
Sheffi has been recognized in numerous ways in academic and industry forums, including the 1997 Distinguished Service Award given by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals. He is also a life fellow of Cambridge University’s Clare Hall College.
He obtained his B.Sc. from the Technion in Israel in 1975, his S.M. from MIT in 1977, and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1978.
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- MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics
- MIT Masters of Engineering in Logistics
- MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
- MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering Division
