Professor Pieter Nagel has spent his entire working career of more than 30 years as a Logistics Professional. His career includes all areas of the profession including Senior and Executive Positions in Academia, Corporate and Consulting Organisations.

Throughout his career of more than 30-years, Dr Nagel has achieved a dynamic balance between corporate, consulting and academic positions and has always endeavoured to advance the logistics profession. After commencing his career in South Africa, where he was born, he developed an international reputation as a leader in Supply Chain Strategy. He moved to Australia 1998. Over the years, he has been instrumental in a number of initiatives. In 1985, he was appointed as the first occupant of an industry sponsored Chair in Logistics at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. This chair evolved to become the Centre for Supply Chain Management and is still operational today. Subsequently Dr Nagel has been instrumental in establishing the Centre for Logistics Management at the Johannesburg University and is currently the inaugural Director of the Institute for Logistics and Supply Chain Management at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia.

Throughout his extensive career, Pieter has amassed substantial global experience in the corporate, consulting and academic logistics environments. His experience has given strong legitimacy to the development of his vision for logistics. He has undertaken strategic global projects in all three arenas and has worked on all major continents delivering logistics expertise to the petrochemical, defence, banking and finance and retail sectors. Key among his significant achievements has been his pivotal role in the establishment of three key research and learning institutes. These entities continue to attract renown and all operate successfully. He identifies the global re-structure of the logistics of a petrochemical company as one of his most satisfying corporate achievements. Pieter outlines that his graduate and post-graduate teaching roles throughout Asia and Europe have been deeply rewarding.

Dr Nagel is committed to contributing to the creation of a holistic vision of logistics as a profession. He believes that the thorough understanding of logistics by industry and the general public is still developing. He is driven by a quest to unite the segregated knowledge bases held by the engineering, business and technology segments that comprise the field of logistics. A hallmark of his career has been the capacity to conceptualise the development of logistics theory and practice and support its recognition as one of the key and indeed dynamic components of the economy and as an esteemed profession.

He is widely sought after as a consultant and as a speaker on the international speaking circuit, in company workshops and executive briefings to across Asia, Europe and the U.S.

Dr Nagel has travelled extensively worldwide, taking a keen interest in the communities in which he has worked. He is passionate about his strong commitment to the community, currently offers his time voluntarily to community support programmes, and actively contributes to a community based life and leadership programme in Melbourne. He has a strong association with China, Singapore and Thailand but lists his experience gained travelling and working in Africa, as seminal. His areas of interest include:

• The Future Development of Supply Chains into Dynamic Value Networks
• The Strategic Logistics Environment
• Effective Strategic Procurement as a Prime Business Tool

His commitment to developing the logistics profession is evident in his current representative roles as Chair of the Education & Training Partner Reference Group of the Victorian Transport, Distribution & Logistics Industry Roundtable, a member of the Australian Logistics Council - Education & Research Committee and a member of the Committee for Melbourne. Dr Nagel is also an Honorary Professor of Logistics at the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade and Vice President of the Supply Chain Council ANZ.