Jagjit Singh Srai
Director of Research, and Head, Centre for International Manufacturing, Institute for Manufacturing, Department of Engineering
University of Cambridge
Dr Srai is a Director of Research in the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, and Head, Centre for International Manufacturing, Institute for Manufacturing (IfM). Jag has extensive experience of leading large-scale complex research projects comprising multiple stakeholders across industry, academia, and public bodies. His research centre at the University of Cambridge brings an engineering and strategic operations management perspective to the design, analysis and operation of international supply chains and the impact of advanced production and digital technologies. Through major collaborations with industry (individual firms and consortia), primarily in healthcare and food/FMCG sectors, his research findings have directly underpinned major organisational change.
Internationally, Dr Srai is Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum Council on the Future of Advanced Manufacturing and Production, and inputs to UNCTAD’s annual industrial development reports, most recently on Investment in the Digital Economy. He has also leads IfM’s Digital Supply Chain Industrial Consortium (2015- ) involving leading multinationals collaborating on digital supply chain transformation. In IfM Jag leads the Healthcare Research Theme and across Cambridge he co-Chairs the Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Global Food Security.
From an industrial perspective, before joining Cambridge, Jag had an extensive career managing complex supply chains for the FTSE 100 Company, Unilever. Here he held major leadership roles within Research Operations (budget £200m), as a Supply Chain Director of Multinational Regional business, Technical Director of a National Business, and other Executive Management positions, with over 17 years of front-line operations management experience. At Cambridge, he has demonstrated excellence in pathways to impact and is a Director of IfMs knowledge exchange company (IfM Engage) with responsibility for its strategic direction and operational governance.
