Dr. Anil Kumar is a Reader at Guildhall School of Business and Law, London Metropolitan University (LMU), London, United Kingdom. Before joining LMU, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Decision Sciences at the Centre for Supply Chain Improvement, University of Derby, UK. He earned his Ph.D. in Management Science from ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, India. He did his graduation in Mathematics (Hons) and MSc (Mathematics) from Kurukshetra University, India. He earned his Master of Business Administration (MBA) and qualified National Eligibility Test (NET), in June 2011. He has contributed more than 150 research papers in internationally referred journals and conferences at the international level. He was listed in the ‘World Ranking Top 2%’ researchers by Stanford University/Elsevier in October 2023 & October 2022. He is an Associate Editor of Heliyon-Information Science and the International Journal of Mathematical, Engineering and Management Sciences.