Peter Baker

Peter Baker spent the early part of his career in international freight forwarding, becoming an office manager at Southampton and then gaining an MSc degree in Distribution Technology and Management at Cranfield University.

He worked for 15 years in distribution consultancy, primarily with Deloitte Consulting. During this period, he conducted over 100 supply chain projects across a wide range of industries - in many countries spanning Europe, North America, the Far East, Central Asia, West Africa and the Middle East. These projects have included supply chain strategy, procurement, international logistics, distribution centre design, inventory control, transport operations and supporting computer systems.

He became a Senior Lecturer at the Cranfield Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management, where he completed his PhD on distribution centres in agile supply chains. He is a Fellow of the CILT(UK) and has published regularly in books, trade magazines and academic journals.