Professor Alistair Brandon-Jones (PhD, PGDip, BSc Hons) is a Full Chaired Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management (Since 2014), and Head of the Information, Decisions, and Operations Division (Since 2020) in Bath University's School of Management. He is a Visiting Professor for Hult International Business School and Danish Technical University. Formerly, he was Associate Dean for Post-Experience Programmes, responsible for MBA, EMBA, DBA, and EngDoc programmes (2014-17) and a non-executive director at Brevio, a B-Corp focused on smarter grant making in the Third Sector (2019-2024). Prior to his move to Bath, he was a Reader at Manchester Business School, an Assistant and Associate Professor at Bath University, and a Teaching Fellow Warwick Business School, where he also completed his PhD.

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Professor Brandon-Jones is an active empirical researcher focusing on digitalisation of operations and supply chain management, professional service operations, and healthcare operations. This research has involved collaborations with a wide variety of organisations in the private and public sector and has been supported by funding from UKRI, ESRC, EPSRC, Welsh Assembly Government, Local Government Association, and the Design Council. His work has been published extensively in world-elite journals including Journal of Operations Management (ABS4*), Journal of Supply Chain Management (ABS4), International Journal of Operations and Production Management (ABS4), International Journal of Production Economics (ABS3), and International Journal of Production Research (ABS3).

Professor Brandon-Jones is also co-author for the world’s leading portfolio of Operations and Supply Management textbooks. These include Operations Management, the tenth edition published in 2022; Operations and Process Management, the seventh edition published in 2024;  Essentials of Operations Management, the third edition published in 2021; Administração da Produção, the eighth edition published in 2020; and Quantitative Analysis in Operations Management, published in 2008. Operations Management was recently listed in the top 10 most highly cited business, marketing, accounting, and economics textbooks worldwide according to Financial Times Teaching Power Rankings in 2021 (https://www.ft.com/content/beb77be1-f735-45e9-82cb-ec834eb39565?shareType=nongift)

Professor Brandon-Jones has led Operations Management, Operations Strategy, Supply Chain Management, Project Management, Product Management, and Service Operations courses at executive, MBA, masters and undergraduate levels and has been invited to lecture at various international institutions, including University of Cambridge, SDA Bocconi, Warwick Business School, NOVA University, Danish Technical University, Hult International Business School, Edinburgh Napier, Warwick Medical School, and University College Dublin. In addition, he has extensive consulting and executive development experience with a range of organisations, including Maersk, Qinetic Defence, Schroders, Royal Bank of Scotland, Baker Tilly, Rowmarsh, Eni Oil and Gas, Crompton Greaves, Bahrain Olympic Association, Qatar Leadership Centre, National Health Service, and the Singapore Logistics Association. He has won a number of prizes for teaching excellence and contributions to pedagogy, including from the Times Higher Education, Association of MBAs (AMBA), Production Operations Management Society (POMS), University of Bath, University of Manchester, University of Warwick, and Hult International Business School.

Professor Brandon-Jones is interested in supervising new doctoral researchers, particularly those focused on the digital transformation of operations and supply chain management. Expectations are that potential candidates have a passion for empirical research and are highly self-motivated.