Dr. Pietro Evangelista has won the James Cooper Memorial Cup for the best PhD on a supply chain management topic in the UK and Ireland. His Doctoral research was carried out at NITL and the Logistics Research Centre (LRC) at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh under the supervision of Edward Sweeney and Prof. Alan McKinnon.

The prize, awarded by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) in the UK, is named in memory of Professor James Cooper. Inaugurated in 2000, it is awarded annually to students at UK or Republic of Ireland universities for research that makes an original contribution to the field and is directly relevant to the management of the end-to-end supply chain.

Prof. Alan McKinnon (Heriot-Watt University), Sir Moir Lockhead (President, CILT UK), Dr. Pietro Evangelista, Edward Sweeney (NITL), Prof. Mike Browne (Chairman, LRN)

Pietro was awarded the prize for his thesis entitled: “Dissemination of information and communication technology in supply chain management: the impact on small and medium sized transport and logistics service providers”. He was presented with Memorial Cup at the recent annual Logistics Research Network (LRN) conference hosted by the Institute for Transport Studies (ITS) at the University of Leeds.