Dr Benn Lawson is University Associate Professor in Operations Management, Director of the Management Studies Tripos and Director of the Centre for Process Excellence & Innovation (CPEI) at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He is also Director of Studies in Management at Gonville & Caius College

He has research interests in supply chain strategy; supplier relationship management; sustainable procurement; and product design-supplier integration.

Benn serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Operations Management, and as an associate editor at the Journal of Supply Chain Management. He is a board member of the European Operations Management Association (EurOMA), and a member of the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply, UK (MCIPS). He has held visiting appointments at University of Oxford, University of Pittsburgh, North Carolina State University, and University of Melbourne.

Prior to joining Cambridge Judge Business School, Dr Lawson was Senior Lecturer in the School of Management at Queen's University Belfast, UK, and Lecturer in the Department of Management & Marketing at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Dr Lawson recently co-authored a paper on "Shareholder wealth effects of modern slavery regulation." Management Science (DOI: 10.17863/CAM.43261) (2020 forthcoming)