Short biography
Marianne Jahre is associate professor in the Department of Strategy and Logistics at BI Norwegian School. In 2008 she was appointed professor at Lund University and now works part-time in the Department of Industrial Management and Logistics in Lund. She received her PhD in logistics in 1995 at Chalmers University of Technology and is now docent there, as well as visiting professor at Université de la Méditerranée in France.
Marianne has extensive experience in heading externally funded research projects and has supervised many phd.students over the years. She has co-edited and co-authored several books and published a number of articles in International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, International Journal of Logistics: Research and Applications, International Journal of Logistics Management and Journal of Chain and Network Science. She won the Outstanding Paper Award at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2009 from Emerald.
At BI she is now responsible for the major in logistics: supply chains and networks and teaches strategic issues in logistics, distribution and transport, disaster relief logistics and design and development of logistics resource networks. She also heads a research project funder by SAMRISK in the Norwegian Research Council on humanitarian logistics networks and works with International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Society and the UN logistics cluster. She was part of the group who in 1989 established NOFOMA, the nordic network for logistics researchers and has since been heading the organising and scientific commitee for the conference when it has been hosted by BI in 1995 and in 2006. Being member of the 'latino' version of NOFOMA, RIRL established in France in 1998, she functions as a liason between the Nordic countries and Southern European Countries and Brazil.
Marianne is a board member of SMARTRANS, the research programme on transport and logistics in the Norwegian Research Council and also on the board of VINN Excellence Centre NGIL - New Generation Innovative Logistics - at the University of Lund. In October 2008 she was appointed an international delegate of Norwegian Red Cross.
Research areas
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Disaster relief logistics
project-based logistics
design and development of logistics networks
supply chain integration and the role of service providers
sustainable and reverse logistics
Teaching areas
- interorganizational resource development in logistics and construction networks
- logistics and the environment
- construction management and design of logistics systems with particular focus on conceptual frameworks
- development of logistics and supply chain management as a research area in its own right.
