Roel Gevaers will start the new academic year 2024-2025 on 1 September as the new academic director of the full-time Master’s programme in Global Supply Chain Management at Antwerp Management School (AMS).
The specialised Master in Global Supply Chain Management (GSCM) at AMS is suitable for students from another sector as well as experienced profiles. “GSCM is the largest programme at AMS with around 40 to 50 full-time students enrolling each year. The programme is mainly taken by students who already have a master’s degree but want to study further and get a second master’s degree,” says Roel Gevaers. “As academic manager, I will determine the content of the programme, appoint the professors for the learning subjects and draw up the schedule,” he says.
Gevaers will revamp the training offer and make it ‘future-proof’. “GSCM already has a very strong programme at present, but towards the future we want to focus even more on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in supply chains and data prediction,” he says. “We also want to set up an advisory board consisting of top local and international managers from the logistics sector. Their expertise in the field will help us optimise the learning programme.”
Gevaers graduated as a transport economist from the University of Antwerp (UA) in 2007. “Since childhood, I was interested in anything that has wheels and/or moves quite fast such as planes, trucks and cars,” he says. Today, he is a part-time lecturer at UA’s Department of Transport and Spatial Economics (TPR). He is also a professor at the Center for Maritime & Air Management (C-MAT), the transport expertise centre – co-managed by UA – at AMS. From his additional position as academic director of GSCM, he will work even more closely in the future with Wouter Dewulf, who is academic director of the master in Maritime and Air Transport Management at AMS. “Together at AMS, we deliver around 80 students a year who can immediately start working in the logistics or maritime sector. Antwerp Management School is ‘the place to be’ for students who want to pursue a master-after-master’s degree (manama) in a recognised business school,” he concludes.
The Master in Global Supply Chain Management is taught in English and runs from 9 September 2024 to 29 August 2025 at the AMS campus on Boogkeers in Antwerp.
