Dr Frank Ojadi obtained a bachelors degree in Engineering Physics from University of Ife in 1981 (now Obafemi Awolowo University), MBA from the Maarstricht School of Management,
Netherlands and PhD in Transport Economics from the department of Transport and Supply Chain Management of the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He has been a faculty member at Lagos Business School, Nigeria for 21 years. Prior to entering academia, he worked, at various times as an Operations planning, Logistics and Supply Chain Manager in the steel, aluminum, paper, pharmaceutical, tobacco and hospitality sub-sectors of the Nigerian economy.

Dr Ojadi’s teaching and research interests are in operations management, design and implementation of logistics and supply chain management improvement methodologies. His research works have been published in Supply Chain Management: An International Journal;
International Journal of Production Research; Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management;
International Journal of Logistics: Research and Applications.

His case studies and technical notes include Sensational Foods Ltd, Talent Drycleaners (among the 15 top-selling cases for 2009, 2010 and 2011 in the category of production and operations management by the European Case Clearing House), Clearing of Imports at the Lagos Seaport, Economic Regulation of Industries and Industrial Sectors, Reforming the Nigeria Police Force, Nigerian Maritime Security, maritime Administration in Nigeria.

Dr Ojadi has consulted widely for many companies (including banks, food and beverage and distribution and retail companies, urban transport development) in the areas of procurement improvement and logistics and supply chain optimisation. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the South African-based Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management.