Kiran Fernandes

Professor Kiran Fernandes is the Associate Dean for Internationalisation and Professor of Operations Management at the Durham University Business School. He is also the Executive Director of the Northern Powerhouse Innovation Observatory, Fellow of University College Durham and the Wolfson Research Institute. He has been appointed by the UK Secretary of State for International Development as a Non-Executive Director of the UK National Commission (UKNC) for UNESCO with special responsibility for Higher Education, and in 2017 was elected vice-chair of the UKNC.

He is the Director of the Global Gateway’s Federation. He currently sits on a range of advisory panels covering various aspects of Operations and Innovation Management, Academic Advisory Council member of the Chartered Management Institute, and is member of a variety of editorial boards. He worked as a sub-systems engineer at the NASA – John C. Stennis Space Centre working for the Late Tom Cobb (Product Director for the Space Shuttle Main Engine Program). Working at NASA also allowed him to complete a professional program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).He also has several different publications in operation management even being at the very top of his journals in his specific area. He has published widely in the area of operations management and sits on the editorial board of a number of top journals in the area. Professor Kiran Fernandes is a Chartered Engineer and advises a number of companies both nationally and internationally.