CILT International President

Professor Alan Waller is the new International President of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT). Though International President-elect since only last May, Alan has taken over the role earlier than planned due to the death of former International President Len Harper of CILT Australia.

Alan has been both Chairman and President of CILT(UK) and an International Vice President for five years.

Alan is a well-known figure in the logistics and transport profession. He started his career at British Steel and went on to spend over 25 years working in a wide range of industries in Europe, North America and the Far East. He was Senior Logistics partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers where he set up and directed the Global Manufacturing Industry Programme and he also founded and directed the Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management at Cranfield School of Management.

He is now Vice-President for supply chain innovation at the international consultancy Solving Efeso and Visiting Professor for International Supply Chain Management at Cranfield.

'The Institute has more than 30,000 members working in over 100 countries; ranging from Beijing to Barbados and countries as large as Australia, and small as Malta.

The world is becoming a smaller place. Just as trade between countries intrinsically links the success of our economies, logistics and transport professionals in all those countries are connected by the Institute, Alan said. Alan intends to concentrate his Presidency on growing membership in all territories, encouraging excellence and consistency and promoting the CILT name in all parts of the world.