Room: 262, Operations and Service Management Department, Aston Business School

Email: [email protected]

- Humanitarian logistics

- Sustainable procurement and supply chain management

Current Appointments at Aston Business School:

• Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Operations Management
• Core member of Aston Crisis Management Center
• PhD and DBA Lead - Department of Operations and Service Management

Background:

Dr Hossein Zarei joined Aston from Coventry University, where he was a Lecturer in Business Strategy at School of Management between 2019 and 2024. He was one of the six candidates that were awarded by the European Union the prestigious Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate (EMJD) Fellowship for Industrial Management in 2014. He holds two PhDs, one in Management, Economics & Industrial Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (2018) and the other in Industrial Management from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (2020). He is a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA), UK, and holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice from Coventry University (2021).

Research:
Dr Zarei conducts research at the intersection of humanitarian logistics and sustainable supply chain management where he addresses the question: "How can humanitarian supply chains be more environmentally and socially sustainable?". His research results have been published in top supply chain and business management outlets such as International Journal of Operations & Production Management (IJOPM) and Journal of Humanitarian Logistics & Supply Chain Management (JHLSCM) and have been highly cited by other researchers. He received The Humanitarian Logistics Award for “Research and Academic Contributions” from American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN) in 2021.

Teaching:
Dr Zarei's teaching involves a wide range of subjects related to supply chain management, operations management, business strategy, and research methodologies. He teaches at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and has taught to MBA senior executives from public and private organizations in The UK, including Ministry of Justice, AF. Blakemore, Ford Motor, and UK education managers. He has supervised many undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations and he is currently supervising two PhD students. Hossein acted as the subject expert and external examiner for several postgraduate and PhD defense sessions. He has taught in several cultural contexts including Spain, Italy, Malaysia, Iran, Kazakhstan, and UK.

Consultancy:
Dr Zarei has secured funds and been collaborating with prestigious humanitarian organizations such as International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) as the project leader for several research and consultancy projects since 2015. He also has two years of work experience as a management consultant in business planning following his undergraduate studies.

- BN1157 Principles of Operations Management

- BNM810J Operations Management

- BNC301 Advanced Operations

- BB0BMG Business Model Generation

- 09/2023 – 03/2024: Principal Investigator for the project The Business Case for A Fleet Manager funded by USAID Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance, Washington, D.C., United States.

- 06/2020 – 09/2021: Principal Investigator for the project ICRC Waste Management Through Green Logistics funded by International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC), Geneva, Switzerland.

Previous full-time employments:

09/2019 - 10/2024: Lecturer in Business Strategy, School of Management, College of Business and Law, Coventry University, UK

11/2021: Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA), Advance HE, UK

9/2014: European Commission’s Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate Fellowship for the program “European Doctorate in Industrial Management”

2021 Humanitarian Logistics Award in the category “Research and Academic Contributions” from American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN)

Dr Zarei's research focuses on humanitarian logistics and sustainable procurement and supply chain management.