Dr. Judith Whipple is the Bowersox-Thull Endowed Professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management in the Department of Supply Chain Management and former Interim Dean at Michigan State University’s Eli Broad College of Business. She received her doctorate in marketing and logistics from Michigan State University and has been a faculty member at the university since 1998. She is an award-winning scholar and teacher whose research on supply chain integration and collaboration, risk management, and supply chain organizational design has been published in numerous supply chain and logistics journals. Whipple is well reputed among industry practitioners and has given hundreds of presentations and trainings for various companies.