Prof. Edward Sweeney

Biography

Ed Sweeney is Professor of Logistics & Supply Chain Management at Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University. He is also Deputy Executive Dean of the University’s School of Social Sciences. Ed was elected Chair of the Logistics Research Network (LRN) by his peers in 2015. He is a former winner of the “Member of the Year” award of CILT in Ireland and of the CILT(UK) James Cooper Memorial Cup for the best PhD thesis on a supply chain or logistics topic in the UK or Ireland.
Ed joined Heriot-Watt from Aston University where he was Professor of Logistics & Systems and Director of the Aston Logistics & Systems Institute. He was previously Director of the National Institute for Transport and Logistics (NITL) in Dublin, Ireland. Ed has also held full¬-time academic posts at the University of Warwick and the University of Technology, Malaysia (UTM), as well as visiting positions at several institutions in Asia and North America. His research has been widely published and he sits on the editorial boards of several leading international supply chain journals.
Ed has worked in close collaboration with many of the world’s leading companies across various sectors including food and drink, electronics, life sciences and logistics. He has worked in over 70 countries across the world. His current work focusses on the issues of supply chain sustainability and integration in global supply chains, with particular reference to the effective adoption of circularity concepts and systems thinking.
Ed is also a graduate from Trinity College Dublin where he studied a BAI in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering.