Dr Pavan Manocha is an operations strategy scholar, management consultant, and adjunct-professor of practice in innovation & technology leadership.  As an Industrial Associate with IfM Engage, he helps start-ups, spin-outs, global corporate, and public-sector organisations configure sustainable supply chains that deliver net-zero and energy transition outcomes.  He practices at the intersection of the industrial sustainability, industrial resilience and international manufacturing research groups.

Research interests

• International Manufacturing
• Supply Chain Strategy
• Sustainable Development
• Natural Capital
• Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)

Background

Pavan holds degrees in Applied Computer Systems (BSc), International Business (MBA) and Sustainability Leadership (MPhil). His doctoral thesis (PhD): How Green is the Deal? explored how sustainable supply chain strategy considerations might inform mergers & acquisitions.  He has attended the University of Cambridge, Stanford University and the Harvard Business School.

He is a thought-leader with over twenty-five years of operations strategy and sustainable supply chain management consulting and board advisory experience, primarily within the energy and process manufacturing industries.  Pavan is affiliated with the following organisations across the University of Cambridge:

• Institute for Manufacturing
• Institute for Sustainability Leadership
• The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
• Cambridge Enterprise
• Wolfson College

For the first ten-years of his career he held positions of increasing responsibility within the global energy and M&A integration practice of Deloitte.  His business consulting experiences have included feasibility/fit assessment studies, strategic and tactical planning, project management, business and systems re-engineering and M&A integration consulting.

Professional Memberships & Networks:

• The Institute of Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
• Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS)
• Academy of Management (AOM)
• European Operations Management Association (EurOMA)
• Production and Operations Management Society (POMS)
• The European M&A Institute (eM&Ai)

Publications and Conference papers

• Manocha P, 2023. Sustainable supply chains enabled by mergers & acquisitions: motivations, strategic considerations, and integration outcomes. [Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.108978
• Manocha P and Srai J.S., 2021. Exploring sustainability in M&A – How green is the deal? Proceedings of the 28th European Operations Management Association
• Manocha P. and Srai J.S., 2020. Exploring Environmental Supply Chain Innovation in M&A. Sustainability 12(23), 10105. https://doi.org/10.3390/su122310105
• Manocha P. and Srai J.S., 2019. Exploring Circular Economy Supply Chain Considerations in Mergers & Acquisitions - How green is the deal? A natural-resource-based view of the U.S. shale oil & gas product-supply chain. Cambridge International Manufacturing Symposium
• Manocha P. and Srai J.S., 2018. Exploring Sustainable Supply Chain Management in Mergers & Acquisitions – How Green is the Deal? target selection considerations within the U.S. lithium-ion battery product-supply chain for electric vehicles, Cambridge International Manufacturing Symposium
• Manocha P. and Srai J.S., 2018. Sustainable Supply Chain Management Considerations in Operational Due Diligence, Proceedings of the 29th Production and Operations Management Society
• Manocha P, Srai J.S. and Kumar M., 2017. Sustainable Supply Network Assessment in Mergers & Acquisitions – How green is the deal? Proceedings of the 24th European Operations Management Association
• Manocha P, Srai J.S. and Kumar M., 2016. Understanding the role of Sustainability in Mergers & Acquisitions from the perspective of Supply Chain Management – How green is the deal? Cambridge International Manufacturing Symposium
• Manocha P, Kumar M, and Srai J.S., 2015. Identifying and Mitigating the Water Stress Risk of the Californian Wine Industry Supply Chain, Cambridge International Manufacturing Symposium