Dr. Marcio Thomé is currently a Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at PUC-Rio, and an Affiliated Researcher at the Portuguese Catholic University at Porto, Faculty of Economics and Management. He earned a Master of Arts in Demography at Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris University; a Master of Sciences and Doctoral degree in Industrial Engineering at PUC-Rio, and was a postdoctoral fellow and visiting researcher at the University of Münster. He presently serves as President-Elect for the Global Manufacturing Research Group (GMRG) and as the President for GMRG Brazil. He was formerly a Population Council’s Associate, Logistics and Information Systems Associate at Cambridge Consulting, Deputy Director at Westinghouse Electric Co., and the Superintendent at BEMFAM-CONAPES. He is a researcher with grants from the Brazilian National Research and Development Centre (CNPq), and the Carlos Chagas Filho Foundation for Research Support of the State of Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ). His interests are in Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing Research, Sales and Operations Planning, and Research Methodology related areas. Prof. Thomé has over 110 scientific papers that have appeared in conference proceedings, book chapters, and scientific journals. He acts as Associate Editor, Management & Production Journal, and as a referee for several leading journals in sustainability and operations management. His H-index in Scopus is 19.