About the Authors

Dr. Edmund Prater teaches Global Operations and Logistics at the University of Texas at Arlington. He received his PhD, MSIE, and MSEE from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He became interested in global supply chains when he started and ran an import/export firm in Russia in the early 1990s. Most recently, he completed a fellowship with the National Academy of Sciences. As a Jefferson Science Fellow, he worked at the U.S. State Department in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. His work has been published in journals including The Journal of Operations Management, The International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Communications of the ACM, The International Journal of Physical Distribution and ...

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