Deepankar Sinha, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, is a PhD from Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. He has more than 20 years’ experience in Port Industry and 10 years’ experience in academics, training and consultancy. His areas of expertise include global logistics, supply chain management, ports and shipping management. He has presented papers in National and International Conferences; and published papers in ABDC and ABS listed journals. He has reviewed papers in Emerald and other group of journals. He is also editor of Foreign Trade Review (FTR), special issue on ” Efficiency and Performance of Global Supply Chain: Theory and Evidence” - a Sage Publication. He is in advisory boards for several government and non-government bodies. He has served as an expert to Asian Development Bank; Ministry of Commerce, Government of India; Ernst & Young; Olam International, Reliance Industries Limited; and other organisations. He is visiting faculty to several organisations in India and abroad (namely, Institute of Financial Management (IFM), Tanzania; Chamber of Commerce, Togo, and Seychelles; University of Khartoum, Sudan). He is a member of International Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) Society; System Dynamics Society of India and Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS). He is recipient of awards from International Association of Ports and Harbours (IAPH); National Institute of Quality & Reliability, India; Academy of International Business (AIB); and other institutes. He has filed two patents: An AI based Switching Technology and Electronic Check (cheque) System for cash withdrawal.