Jan Godsell is Dean of LB and Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Strategy at Loughborough University. She is also the founder and Director of the UK Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence Centre (SCALE), part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Global SCALE network. Her work focuses on the pursuit of more responsible consumption and production through the alignment of product, marketing and supply chain strategy with consumer needs. Jan’s work considers the design of digitally enabled end-to-end supply chains to support responsibility, sustainability, resilience, productivity and a better future of work.
As a chartered engineer, Jan has more than three decades of combined industry experience in product development, innovation, supply chain strategy and process improvement working for ICI, Astra Zeneca and Dyson. She has advised government and industry on supply chain strategy and its relationship to industrial and business strategy. Jan is a former member of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) supply chain resilience advisory group. Jan is also a member of the advisory group for the Made Smarter Innovation (MSI) and the UK National Manufacturing Forum. She is also a member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Futures Council (GFC) for Advanced Manufacturing and Value Chains.
