Dr. Maria Jesus Saenz

Director, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Digital Supply Chain Transformation, Center for Transportation & Logistics

Dr. Maria Jesus Saenz is the Director of the research area on Digital Supply Chain Transformation at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, as Research Scientist. Her primary research aims at leveraging the connections among inter-organisational business drivers when facing new collaborative paradigms in digital transformations.

She also serves as the Executive Director of the MIT Supply Chain Management Blended Master Program, an elite MIT degree that allows learners to combine the MITx MicroMasters credential with one+ semester at MIT.

Dr. Saenz teaches various courses at Master, PhD and Executive Education level on Supply Chain Management, Collaboration, Risks, Resilience and Project Management. Regarding her education, Dr. Saenz is certified in Participant Centred Learning by Harvard Business School.

Dr. Saenz has also led various international research projects for the European Commission, as well as for companies on Supply Chain Management innovation, such as P&G, Carrefour, Clariant, DHL, Leroy Merlin or Caterpillar.

She is co-author of more than 80 publications, including books and articles in leading international Journals. Her knowledge transfer work has received 14 awards and her research was cited in the media including MIT Sloan Management Review, Forbes, Financial Times Press or Supply Chain Management Review. She also regularly interacts with business leaders as guest keynote speaker in more than 15 countries.