Dr. Vikas Kumar is a Director of Research and Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management at Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, UK. He has over a ten years of teaching and research experience. he also worked at Dublin City University Business School as a Lecturer in Management.

He serves on the editorial board of around ten international journals and has guest-edited several special issues in high impact journals. He is also a reviewer of more than 15 international journals.

Prof Kumar works very closely with industries and has generated research funding in the excess of £1 million from various research agencies such as Innovate UK, EPSRC, British Council, British Academy, Newton Fund, and Science Foundation of Ireland. He has worked on several international collaborative projects with researchers from several UK universities and researchers from Brazil, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, India, Mexico, Taiwan, Columbia, Peru, Costa Rica and Turkey.