{"68822":{"#nid":"68822","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ratliff Invited to Serve on World Economic Forum\u0027s Global Agenda Council on Logistics \u0026 Supply Chain","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDonald Ratliff, executive\ndirector of the Georgia Tech Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute, has been\ninvited to become a member of the World Economic Forum\u2019s Global Agenda Council\non Logistics \u0026amp; Supply Chain for the 2011-2012 term.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ERatliff was selected to join\nthe Network of Global Agenda Council for his experience and intellectual\nleadership in international supply chain and logistics research. \u2028\u2028\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Global Agenda Council on\nLogistics \u0026amp; Supply Chain convenes 15-20 of the world\u2019s most relevant\nthought leaders to provide insight and develop recommendations to address key\nglobal challenges.\u0026nbsp;Council members will meet Oct. 10-11 at the Summit on\nthe Global Agenda in Abu Dhabi.\u0026nbsp; This event will bring together 700\nexperts from around the world to share knowledge and advance recommendations to\nthe most critical challenges facing humanity.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ERatliff is a supply chain\nand logistics expert with more than 30 years of experience as an educator,\nresearcher, consultant and technology business executive. He has worked with a\nwide range of companies and government organizations to recognize and evaluate\nopportunities for supply chain synchronization and logistics optimization, to\ndevelop strategies for exploiting these opportunities and to develop the\nprocesses and technologies necessary to execute on these strategies.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThrough Ratliff\u2019s leadership\nat Georgia Tech, Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics has expanded across international\nboundaries with the development of trade, logistics, innovation and research\ncenters in Asia and Latin America.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe first center of this\nkind was The Logistics Institute-Asia Pacific established in partnership with\nthe Singapore Economic Development Board, and the National University of\nSingapore.\u0026nbsp; It was followed by the establishment of the Trade Innovation\nand Productivity Center in San Jose, Costa Rica; the Georgia Tech Panama\nLogistics Institute in Panama City, Panama; and most recently, the Trade and\nLogistics Innovation Center in Mexico City, Mexico.\u2028\u2028\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ESupply Chain \u0026amp;\nLogistics, a unit of the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems\nEngineering, has been a leader across a broad range of supply chain and\nlogistics domains for more than thirty years.\u0026nbsp; It provides global\nleadership for research and education in the application of scientific\nprinciples to optimize the design and integration of supply chain strategy,\ninfrastructure, processes, and technology.\u0026nbsp; Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistic\u2019s\nprimary activities involve the development of new concepts and strategies for\nthe practice of supply chain engineering and new tools for analysis, design,\nand management of logistics processes. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDonald Ratliff, executive\ndirector of the Georgia Tech Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute, has been\ninvited to become a member of the World Economic Forum\u2019s Global Agenda Council\non Logistics \u0026amp; Supply Chain for the 2011-2012 term. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27462","created_gmt":"2011-07-13 14:46:46","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:09:44","author":"Liz Klipp","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-07-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-07-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"68740":{"id":"68740","type":"image","title":"Donald Ratliff, executive director of the Georgia Tech Supply Chain \u0026 Logistics Institute","body":null,"created":"1449177201","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:13:21","changed":"1475894597","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:17","alt":"Donald Ratliff, executive director of the Georgia Tech Supply Chain \u0026 Logistics Institute","file":{"fid":"193348","name":"don-stool.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/don-stool_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/don-stool_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1849414,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/don-stool_0.jpg?itok=UB3KPbPj"}}},"media_ids":["68740"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/people\/directors\/ratliff.php","title":"H. 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