Mesbahuddin Chowdhury, PhD, is a Senior lecturer of operations and supply chain management at UC Business School, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He received his PhD in Supply Chain Management from Monash University, Australia in 2012, MBA (Major – Management of Technology) from Asian Institute of Technology in 2006, Thailand and Master in Industrial Management from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium in 2003. He also served as a Research Fellow in the Department of Accounting at Monash University for 2 years. He graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Khulna University of Engineering and Technology in 2001.
Dr. Chowdhury has the experience in teaching Strategic Management, Operations Management, Purchasing and Supply Chain Management, Business Research Method and Business mathematics. He completed Postgraduate Certificate in Tertiary Teaching from University of Canterbury in 2016.
His current research interests are on social capital, supply chain resilience, organizational resilience, certification and health and safety management practice. His works have appeared in leading operations and supply chain management journals such as the International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Production Research, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction and Australasian Journal of Environmental Management. He also published in top tier tourism journals such as Journal of Travel Research, Annals of Tourism Research, and Current Issues in Tourisms.