{"68739":{"#nid":"68739","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ratliff Invited to Serve on World Economic Forum\u0027s Global Agenda Council on Logistics \u0026 Supply Chain","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDonald Ratliff, executive director of the Georgia Tech Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute (SCL), has been invited to become a member of the World Economic Forum\u2019s Global Agenda Council on Logistics \u0026amp; Supply Chain for the 2011-2012 term.\u0026nbsp; Dr. Ratliff was selected to join the Network of Global Agenda Council for his experience and intellectual leadership in international supply chain and logistics research. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Global Agenda Council on Logistics \u0026amp; Supply Chain convenes 15-20 of the world\u2019s most relevant thought leaders to provide insight and develop recommendations to address key global challenges.\u0026nbsp; On October 10-11, council members will meet at the Summit on the Global Agenda in Abu Dhabi.\u0026nbsp; This event will bring together 700 experts from around the world to share knowledge and advance recommendations to the most critical challenges facing humanity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDr. Ratliff is a supply chain and logistics expert with more than 30 years of experience as an educator, researcher, consultant, and technology business executive.\u0026nbsp; He has worked with a wide range of companies and government organizations to recognize and evaluate opportunities for supply chain synchronization and logistics optimization, to develop strategies for exploiting these opportunities, and to develop the processes and technologies necessary to execute on these strategies. Through his leadership at Georgia Tech, SCL has expanded across international boundaries with the development of trade, logistics, innovation and research centers in Asia and Latin America.\u0026nbsp; The first center of this kind was The Logistics Institute-Asia Pacific established in partnership with the Singapore Economic Development Board, and the National University of Singapore.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; This center was followed by the establishment of the Trade Innovation and Productivity Center in San Jose, Costa Rica; the Georgia Tech Panama Logistics Institute in Panama City, Panama; and most recently, the Trade and Logistics Innovation Center in Mexico City, Mexico.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESCL, a unit of the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, has been a leader across a broad range of supply chain and logistics domains for more than thirty years.\u0026nbsp; SCL provides global leadership for research and education in the application of scientific principles to optimize the design and integration of supply chain strategy, infrastructure, processes, and technology.\u0026nbsp; SCL\u2019s primary activities involve the development of new concepts and strategies for the practice of supply chain engineering and new tools for analysis, design, and management of logistics processes. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDonald Ratliff, executive director of the Georgia Tech Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute (SCL), has been invited to become a member of the World Economic Forum\u2019s Global Agenda Council on Logistics \u0026amp; Supply Chain for the 2011-2012 term.\u0026nbsp; Dr. Ratliff was selected to join the Network of Global Agenda Council for his experience and intellectual leadership in international supply chain and logistics research. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27511","created_gmt":"2011-07-08 13:42:16","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:09:44","author":"Ashley Daniel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-07-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-07-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"68740":{"id":"68740","type":"image","title":"Donald Ratliff, executive director of the Georgia Tech Supply Chain \u0026 Logistics Institute","body":null,"created":"1449177201","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:13:21","changed":"1475894597","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:17","alt":"Donald Ratliff, executive director of the Georgia Tech Supply Chain \u0026 Logistics Institute","file":{"fid":"193348","name":"don-stool.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/don-stool_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/don-stool_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1849414,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/don-stool_0.jpg?itok=29YFBviK"}}},"media_ids":["68740"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"13617","name":"Donald Ratliff"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"13618","name":"Global Agenda Council on Logistics \u0026 Supply Chain"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"167228","name":"supply chain \u0026 logistics institute"},{"id":"1751","name":"world economic forum"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}