Edward Sweeney of NITL was a guest at the recent degree conferring ceremony at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. At the ceremony Pietro Evangelista was conferred with a Ph.D. for his thesis entitled ‘Dissemination of information and communication technology in supply chain management; the impact on small and medium sized transport and logistics service providers’. His research was supervised by Edward and Professor Alan McKinnon, Director of Heriot-Watt’s prestigious Logistics Research Centre. Pietro, a close research collaborator of NITL, is researcher in logistics and SCM at the Italian National Research Council (IRAT-CNR) in Naples. He is business economist by background and his current research focuses on innovation and ICT diffusion in the logistics service industry. He lectures at the Department of Managerial Engineering of the University of Naples ‘Federico II’.

 
                                         _{Prof. Alan McKinnon, Dr. Pietro Evangelista and Edward Sweeney.}

Edward congratulated Pietro on behalf of NITL stated that ‘NITL is delighted to be associated with Heriot-Watt’s world class logistics and supply chain research activity’. Professor McKinnon commented that ‘it was a pleasure to supervise Pietro's doctoral research and made all the more enjoyable with Ed's support. The final product was well received by the examiners and reflects very well on Pietro’.

 
                         _{Edward Sweeney and Dr. Pietro Evanglista at the recent ceremony in Edinburgh.}

NITL looks forward to building on its collaboration with Heriot-Watt and with its various Italian partners.