Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Straube studied industrial engineering at the TU Berlin with a study visit to the University of Grenoble in France. In 1987, he received his doctorate at the Logistics Department of the TU Berlin (Prof. Dr.-Ing. H. Baumgarten). Frank Straube managed logistics projects at the TU and in the industry from 1984-89. From 1990 to 2001, he headed an internationally active planning company, Zentrum für Logistik und Unternehmensplanung GmbH, as Chairman of the Management Board.
Since 2003, Prof. Straube has been a permanent visiting professor at the University Pantheon-Assas Paris. At the University of St. Gallen, he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Kühne Institute for Logistics and received his habilitation here in 2003.
In October 2004, he followed the call to the TU Berlin and has since been head of the Logistics Department at the Institute of Technology and Management. In addition to heading the Logistics Department, Frank Straube was Dean of Faculty VII from 2017 to 2019 and a member of the Faculty Council from 2019 to 2021. Furthermore, he has been managing director of the Institute of Technology & Management since 2004 and is a member of the Institute Council and the Joint Commission for the Industrial Engineering and Management (GKWi) degree program at TU Berlin. In 2008, Prof. Straube was instrumental in establishing the Chair of International Logistics Networks and Services, endowed by the Kühne Foundation, at the Chinese-German University College (CDHK) of Tongji University Shanghai and has been a permanent visiting professor since then. Since 2009, there has been a cooperation with Abu Dhabi University under the direction of Frank Straube.
Prof. Straube was Vice Chairman from 1997 to 2009 and a member of the Advisory Board of the German Logistics Association (BVL) from 2009 to 2021. He was also a member of the board of the European Logistics Association in Brussels from 2000 to 2017. He is also Chairman of the Advisory Board of the BLG LOGISTICS GROUP.
Prof. Straube is the founder of the International Transfer Center for Logistics (ITCL) for the realisation of innovative planning and further education activities for companies.
He is also a member of the Global Expert Knowledge Network of the World Bank and was a member of the founding board of trustees of the Kühne Logistics University in Hamburg. He serves on the Editorial Board for international scientific journals, on the Board of the Association Internationales de la Recherche en Logistique et Supply Chain Management (AIRL) and on the Scientific Committee of the Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing. He is a member of the Board of Rencontres Internationales de la Recherche en Logistique (RIRL).
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