Martin Christopher

Ph.D., Professor of Marketing and Logistics Management, school of Management, Britain Cranfield University,  ，UK.

Prof. Martin Christopher is a marketing and logistic management professor from Cranfield University,Britain, as well as the chairman of the logistics and Transportation Research Center. This research center is the biggest research institute of Europe in its respective fields, including all aspects of the supply chain and logistic management research. It also provides two different master degree programs for full-time and on-the-job  postgraduate students, as well as tons of management development courses. This research center has made a great  contributionto the development of global shipping and logistic field’s development.

Martin Christopher is also the co-editor of International Journal of Logistic Management and  hisresearch findings in the field of logistics and supply chain management has earned himquite a reputation.

Prof. Martin Christopher is a honorary retiree of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport. Considering his contributions to the education of logistic management, he was awarded the price of  Robert Lawrence in 1988, and he was awarded outstanding contribution award in 2005 by the Council of supply chain management professionals. Then he was appointed as professor by British charter school foundation of purchasing and supply research, in 2008 he was granted lifetime achievement award by the same institute.

Major Research Fields:

Logistic management, Supply chain management

Published work:

    Logistics and supply chain management 4^th edition -written by Martin Christopher, translated by Mingke He, Lixue Lu, Yiran Zhang