Remko Van Hoek

Dr. Remko van Hoek joined the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas in 2018 to teach and research procurement and supply chain and is its first ever full professor of practice. Gartner ranked the Walton College Supply Chain program the best in the US in 2020. He serves as executive director of the CSCMP (Council for Supply Chain Management Professionals) Supply Chain Hall of Fame that he was able to bring to the University of Arkansas as a service to the profession and to inspire future supply chain innovators and leaders. In addition to teaching regular graduate and undergraduate classes, he teaches customized executive education programs for JB Hunt, Walmart International, the State of Arkansas and others.

Dr. van Hoek previously taught at the Cranfield University School of Management in the UK, the largest SCM masters program in Europe, The Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and the Vlerick School of Management in Ghent, Belgium, simultaneously. He has lectured and delivered keynote addresses at conferences around the world, including in Singapore, Finland, Poland, Manchester, Copenhagen, London and Shanghai. He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply and the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transportation, in the UK, and holds a fellowship at the Dole Institute at the University of Kansas, USA. Dr. Van Hoek served on CILT international committees and as Chairman of the Board of Directors of CSCMP. He has been on the CSMCP Board of Directors for over a decade and continues to serve on the Supply Chain Hall of Fame committee.

Dr. van Hoek is a co-author of three authoritative textbooks on supply chain management: Leading Procurement Strategy: Driving Value Through the Supply Chain (now in its 3rd edition); Integrating Blockchain into Supply Chain Management: A Toolkit for Practical Implementation; and Logistics Management and Strategy: Competing Through the Supply Chain (now in its 6th edition and translated into 7 languages and listed in the top 7 supply chain books of all times). He has authored 100+ articles that have been cited almost 9,000 times, winning him several best paper awards and placing him in the top 2% business scholars around the world in a Stanford/Elsevier study, October 2021. He has published an editor’s pick article about blockchain in the Spring 2021 issue of the Sloan Management Review and has published in the Harvard Business Review over a two-decade period, including his recent work on the COVID19 and blockchain. He is the only researcher to win the Plowman best paper award from CSCMP 3 times during his career, across a 3 decade period, and he was the first non-US CSCMP best doctoral dissertation award winner. In 2021 he won the IPSERA best paper award with managerial implications for his work on navigating the pandemic effect in the supply chain.

While a visiting professor at the Cranfield University School of Management, Dr. van Hoek served in senior supply chain and procurement leadership roles in Europe and the US with Walt Disney Corporation (global CPO reporting to the group CFO), Nike, Inc., and PwC (reporting to the vice-chairman of the firm in New York, serving major corporates including GSK and Pfizer). He also built and ran the procurement and supply chain practices of CEB (now Gartner, Inc.), serving CPO’s and CSCO’s of major corporates including GSK, Novartis, Pfizer, Merck, and Astra Zeneca.

Dr. van Hoek is currently an executive and board advisor to several companies, including on procurement for the CFO of Webhelp a BPO based in Paris, France. Other organizations that he advises include Moet Hennessey (CFO and CPO) and Baker McKenzie. He has also been supporting American manufacturers of medium and small size navigate the pandemic supply chain environment with a focus on near and local sourcing, supply base diversification and collaboration with American contract manufacturers. In 2020 Dr. van Hoek was named Supply Chain Rainmaker by DC Quarterly.