Dr Shereen Nassar
PhD
Shereen Nassar
- Job title
- Associate Professor - Edinburgh Business School
- Phone
- 00971 4 4358745
- s.nassar@hw.ac.uk
- Role
- Associate Professor - Edinburgh Business School
- Section
- School of Social Sciences
- s.nassar@hw.ac.uk
- Phone
- 00971 4 4358745
About
Dr. Shereen teaches at undergraduate and postgraduate levels with a focus on operations, logistics and supply chain management. She is the Global Director of Logistics Studies and the director of the Online MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management programme. She is also the director for the MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management, MSc Operations Management, MSc Maritime Logistics and Business, MSc Business Analytics and Consulting and International Master in Industrial Management programmes.
Biography
Dr. Shereen is the global Director of Logistics Studies & the Director of a number of Master's Programmes at Heriot-Watt University Dubai. She is an active member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) UAE and the chair of the Next generation CILT UAE committee.
She is an active academic with strong ties with industry mainly in the field of logistics, operations and supply chain management. She has developed extensive international teaching experience across the UK and MENA region. She is regularly invited to be a keynote speaker and panelist in academic and industry events. She received her PhD in 2012 from Bath University in UK. The degree focused on the impact of advanced tracking technology using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) applications in attaining sustainable supply chain competitive advantage.
Research
Dr. Shereen’s main research interests are in sustainability, supply chain resilience and digitalisation. She has published several research papers and book chapters in areas such as automotive recall risk and social sustainable supply chain performance, sustainable maritime logistics, supply chain information security, and contemporary disruptive business applications of blockchain technology. She also published a number of commercial articles in which she shared her business insights in the field of logistics and supply chain.
Publications
Nassar, S., Kandil, T., Kara, M. E. & Ghadge, A. (2019). Automotive recall risk: impact of buyer-supplier relationship on supply chain social sustainability. International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management. (DOI: 10.1108/IJPPM-01-2019-0026).
Kandil, T., Nassar,S. & Taysir,M. (2019). ‘Blockchain Technology: A Review of the Contemporary Disruptive Business Applications’. In: SHI, N. (ed.) Architectures and Frameworks for Developing and Applying Blockchain Technology. Hershey, PA, USA: IGI Global. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-5351-0.ch058
Kandil, T., Nassar,S. & Taysir,M. (2019). ‘Blockchain Technology: A Review of the Contemporary Disruptive Business Applications’. In: SHI, N. (ed.) Architectures and Frameworks for Developing and Applying Blockchain Technology. Hershey, PA, USA: IGI Global. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-5351-0.ch058
Nassar, S. (2018), ‘Sustainable Ports and Maritime Logistics’. In: Salama, M. (ed.) Principles Of Sustainable Project Management, Oxford: Goodfellow, (pp. 239-263). DOI: 10.23912/9781911396857-3884
Xu, T. and Nassar, S. (2016) ‘Supply chain information security: emerging challenges in the telecommunication industry’ In Anthony J. Masys, Exploring the Security Landscape: non-traditional security challenge, Switzerland, Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-27914-5.