Youssef Boulaksil has been Assistant Professor of Operations Management and Logistics at the College of Business and Economics of the United Arab Emirates University since September 2013. Prior to that, he was a faculty member at the School of Business Administration at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. He holds a MSc in Industrial Engineering and a PhD in Operations Management and Logistics from Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. Youssef has also held visiting appointments at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and the Technical University of Denmark. His research focus is on supply chain planning and logistics in emerging markets. He has published a number of papers in international journals, such as the International Journal of Production Economics, OR Spectrum, and the International Journal of Operations and Production Management.