Dr. Alassane B. NDIAYE is a Civil Engineer (transport infrastructures), Master of Business Administration, Master of Transport Sciences and Doctor of Applied Sciences, graduated at the Universities of Sofia and Liege. Educated in Logistics and Supply Chain Management Strategies at Stanford University and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he is the Director of the Research Lab Qalinca-Logistics and holder of the Professorship Chair of Innovation for Quality, Logistics, Transport and Supply Chain Management at the Polytechnic Faculty of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). He is also an Associate Professor and Lead Research Engineer at the University of Liege (Belgium) where he leads the Transport Systems Research Group, a unit of the Naval Architecture & Transport Systems Research Lab.

Dr. Ndiaye was in 2010-2011 a Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley (USA).

His research and expertise area spans from transport systems modelling & management to supply chain management including logistics optimisation and quality management. He is/was involved in the last 20 years in over a hundred large industrial, R&D and development cooperation projects throughout the world (initiation, coordination, implementation, follow up, knowledge transfer). Among his achievements are the training and excellence centers in transport & logistics in Palembang (Indonesia), Sousse (Tunisia), Quito (Ecuador), Dakar (Senegal), Manaus & Niteroi (Brazil).

Former Expert adviser to the Ministry of Transport, he is since 2004 the Executive Director of the Belgian Interuniversity Centre for Mobility, Transport & Logistics (CIEM), a platform founded 10 years ago by 8 Belgian universities aiming, among other things, at enforcing the cross sectional and interdisciplinary approach to logistic and transport problems (both in education, R&D and development cooperation).

Founding member of two spin off companies active in the field of naval design, transport, logistics and supply chain management, Prof. Dr. Ndiaye was recently appointed by the Belgian Federal Minister of Transport as a member of the Management Board of the Belgian Federal College of Transport Operators (road, air, maritime, rail, inland navigation).

Member of prestigious international scientific organizations, Dr. Ndiaye speaks fluently 4 languages and has a good knowledge of three others. He is a guest professor in Transport & Logistics Management in numerous universities in North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, South America and South East Asia.

Dr. Ndiaye’s expertise skills are particularly oriented towards the innovative ways of integrating ideas from latest research (both applied & fundamental) with best practices for the design, knowledge dissemination and implementation of value creative and sustainable solutions capable of driving complex global supply chains and transport systems to a high level of excellence.