Dr David Ernesto Salinas-Navarro is a member of the National System of Researchers Level 1 in Mexico, and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Certified Business Management Educator in the UK. He holds a PhD in Business/Management Systems from the University of Lincoln, UK. His research explores the Improvement of systems, process and operations for the betterment of communities. Dr Salinas-Navarro is a member of the Operational Research Society (OR), a senior member of the IEEE Education Society, and a fellow of the MIT SCALE Network Latin America. He directs research initiatives such as the Healthcare Engineering Management Lab, the Lean Thinking Learning Space (LTLS), the Social Lab for Sustainable Logistics (SLSL), and the Community Resilience and Sustainability Education Lab (CoRSEL). He obtained the Silver Presence Award for Teaching and Learning because of his innovative education work in 2018.