About Josué

Dr. Josué C. Velázquez Martínez is a Research Scientist and Lecturer at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, specializing in Logistics and Supply Chain Management in transportation, manufacturing, and retail industries, with over 10 years of experience in applied research on logistics sustainability and micro firms in emerging markets.

At MIT, he has held multiple roles, including Director of the SCALE Network for Latin America (2016-2018) and Executive Director of the master’s program in Supply Chain Management (2019-2021). Currently, he serves as the Director of the MIT Sustainable Supply Chain Lab, where the collaborates with organizations to transform climate pledges into actionable strategies through improved supply chain and logistics operations. Additionally, he is the founder and director of the MIT Low Income Firms Transformation (LIFT) Lab, a research lab dedicated to developing innovative research and technology for micro and small enterprises to enhance their supply chain management capabilities.

He has published numerous academic and business-oriented articles and book chapters on logistics sustainability and supply chain management and are frequently quoted and interviewed by international media outlets such as HuffPost, CNN, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and ELLE.com. At MIT, he teaches the graduate course SCM.290 Sustainable Supply Chain Management and led the creation of the edX online version SCM.290x, launched in 2022 with over six thousand learners worldwide. He is a frequent guest speaker at conferences and seminars across the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America.

Dr. Velázquez Martínez holds an MSc in Manufacturing Systems with a focus on Optimization and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering with a focus on Sustainability in Supply Chains from Monterrey Tech, Mexico, where he graduated with great distinction. He was also the recipient of the 2014 Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Mexican Logistics and Supply Chain Association for the best doctoral thesis in the country. Before joining MIT, he served as the Dean of the Engineering School at Monterrey Tech in Santa Fe (2014-2015).