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Alex Polacco (MBA, BSIE, CPIM, CSCP, CMOE, CQE, CQA), Editor of Journal of International Business Research and Practice, is a Professor of Management at St Cloud State University in Minnesota.  He has been teaching courses in Operations and Supply Chain Management there for the past 10 years. Prior to that, he had worked for 22 years in industry as a consultant, manager, and engineer. He was president of the Central MN APICS chapter for 3 years, and has been faculty advisor to the SCSU Student chapter for the last 8 years. He was named Faculty of the Year in the Herberger Business School, SCSU, 4 times in last 7 years; and won the APICS Student Chapter Mentor of the Year award in 2013. He has been a member of the APICS Academic Committee since 2013.