Prof. Anil Kumar is a Professor of Operations, Supply Chain, and Business Analytics at the Guildhall School of Business, London Metropolitan University, UK. He has over fourteen years of experience in teaching and research. Before joining London Metropolitan Unviersity, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Decision Sciences at the Centre for Supply Chain Improvement, University of Derby, UK. He holds a Ph.D. in Management Science from ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, India, and a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Mathematics from Kurukshetra University, India. He also completed an MBA and qualified for the National Eligibility Test (NET) in June 2011. Prof. Kumar's significant contributions to research earned him recognition in the ‘World Ranking Top 2%’ of researchers by Stanford University-Elsevier in 2022 and 2023. He is also a Section Editor for Heliyon-Information Science (Elsevier), a journal indexed in SCIE/SSCI and Scopus.