Dr. Jérôme VERNY is Professor of transport, logistics and supply chain at NEOMA BS. Founder and Director of the Research Institute for Innovative Transport and Logistics, Jérôme is also founder of the MSc DISC / Digital & Innovative Supply Chain (Paris) et co-founder of the Mobility Accelerator. He holds a PhD from the Université de Lille Nord de France, a diploma in Transport Engineering from the Ecole National des Ponts et Chaussées, the Ecole d’Urbanisme de Paris, and the Ecole Supérieure des Transports, Paris. As an internationally recognized expert in Transport and Logistics, for twenty years he has advised companies and public institutions (WB – World Bank, OECD, European Union, the Ministers of the Economy, Sustainable Development, and Research).

In 2009, Jérôme VERNY received the Prix International du Jeune Chercheur in Transport from the OCDE-FIT (International Forum of Transports) in the presence of 52 Transport Ministers that reunited for the occasion in Leipzig.