Kannan Govindan

Kannan Govindan currently holds the position of Director at the Center for Sustainable Operations and Resilient Supply Chain at the University of Adelaide, a role commenced in September 2023. Since August 2008, Kannan has served as an Affiliate Member at the DRIVEN - Danish Centre for Motivation and Behaviour Science and has been actively involved in research focused on Behavioral Operations Management and Environmental Sustainability. Kannan also holds multiple professorships and leadership positions at the University of Southern Denmark, including Chair of Technical Sciences and Head of the Center for Sustainable Supply Chain Engineering. With extensive experience in sustainable supply chain management, Kannan's research and teaching interests encompass a wide range of topics, including sustainable development goals, green supply chain management, corporate sustainability, and various optimization and decision-making methods. Furthermore, Kannan has contributed to academic publishing as an Executive Editor for the Journal of Cleaner Production and has completed advanced education in research management and board leadership.