CV

Benny Mantin is professor and the Director of the Luxembourg Centre of Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LCL), at the University of Luxembourg, which is a member of the MIT’s SCALE network. His research, which covers different aspects of supply chain management, dynamic pricing and revenue management, as well as transportation economics, has been published in numerous leading journals. Prof. Mantin is a board member of the Journal of Air Transport Management and the European Aviation Conference, among others, and he has been engaged in consulting on air-transport policies. He was a visiting scholar at multiple academic institutions and held the Jean-Jacques Laffont Digital Chair on Digital Economy (at the Toulouse School of Economics). Prof. Mantin involved in numerous projects where he led students to improve processes at different firms. Prior to joining the LCL in 2017, Prof. Mantin was at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He received his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia, and M.Sc. as well as B.Sc. from Tel-Aviv University.

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Academic Employment

Academic Employment

University of Luxembourg, Director of the Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Professor 01/2017 – present

University of Waterloo, Associate Professor with Tenure 07/2015 – 12/2016

University of Waterloo, Assistant Professor, 01/2008 – 06/2015

 

Visiting Positions

Kyoto University, visiting professor 07-08/2016.

Jean-Jacques Laffont Digital Chair on Digital Economy at TSE and the IAST 04-06/2016

The Kühne Logistics University (KLU), visiting researcher 09/2015 – 03/2016 (sabbatical leave)

WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, visiting researcher 06/2012

Education

Education

2008: Ph.D in Management Science (with minor in Marketing), University of British Columbia, Canada.

2002: M.Sc in Management Science – Decisions and Operations Research, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.

1997: B.Sc in Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.

Professional Appointments

Professional Appointments

Head of Research Committee: Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance

Editorial Board: Journal of Air Transport Management; associate editor

Executive Board: European Aviation Conference

Conference co-chair: European Aviation Conference 2023 in Luxembourg. Forwarding Welfare? The role of air cargo in future aviation policy and economics

Advisory Board: Hamburg Aviation Conference

Member of the Board: Cluster for Logistics, Luxembourg

Team leader: Research Luxembourg, COVID-19 Task Force, Work Package 13: Supply Chains and Logistics

Member: RISK 2050 – Etude sur la vulnérabilité de l’économie nationale face aux risques physiques

 

Invited Talks & Keynotes

Keynotes

  • Pricing in Aviation and NDC. European Aviation Conference, Vienna, November 2019.
  • Redefining resilience: Integrative review and development of an assessment tool. Eurometal. Antwerp, Belgium, November 2022.
  • Inaugural lecture. October 2018.
  • Pricing in Aviation and NDC. European Aviation Conference, Vienna, November 2019.
  • Good Data for Good Research and Good Policy. European Aviation Conference, Vienna, November 2019.
  • Modern European Logistics and multimodality. Maritime and logistics industry conference, 21 June 2018, Gdansk
  • Greening Supply Chains. ICSHGEL conference, November 2018.
  • The rise of AI: Preparing for the change. Luxembourg Analytics Summit 2018. https://www.analyticssummit.lu/

Invited Workshops

  • ATARD Summer school, Poznan, September 2018.
  • Air Transport Management. Kyoto University, Kyoto, August 2016.
  • Strategic Consumer Behaviour in Revenue Management, Toulouse School of Economics, Toulouse, June 2016.

 

Invited Talks

  • Strategic Behavior and Inventory Decisions in the Presence of a Waste Cost, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, October 2019.
  • Measuring Competition Intensity and Product Differentiation:
    Evidence From The Airline Industry, ATARD Workshop, Poznan, October 2018.
  • Measuring Competition Intensity and Product Differentiation: Evidence from the Airline Industry. Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, July 2016.
  • Measuring Competition Intensity and Product Differentiation: Evidence from the Airline Industry. GRIPS seminar, Tokyo, July 2016.
  • Measuring Competition Intensity and Product Differentiation: Evidence from the Airline Industry. Kyoto University seminar, Kyoto, July 2016.
  • Measuring Competition Intensity and Product Differentiation: Evidence from the Airline Industry. ENAC seminar, Toulouse, June 2016.
  • Measuring Competition Intensity and Product Differentiation: Evidence from the Airline Industry. TBS seminar, Toulouse, June 2016.
  • P2P Marketplaces and Retailing in the Presence of Consumers’ Valuation Uncertainty. TSE, Toulouse, May 2016.
  • P2P Marketplaces and Retailing in the Presence of Consumers’ Valuation Uncertainty. EBS, Wiesbaden, March 2016.
  • Measuring Competition Intensity and Product Differentiation: Evidence from the Airline Industry. GARS workshop on “Current issues of aviation economics and policy”, Worms, February 2016.
  • Cutting edge revenue management as a critical success factor – panelist at Hamburg Aviation Conference, February 2016.
  • P2P Marketplaces and Retailing in the Presence of Consumers’ Valuation Uncertainty. ESMT, Berlin, January 2016.
  • Introduction to Revenue Management – guest speaker at HSB’s Air Transport Business Administration, Bremen, January 2016.
  • P2P Marketplaces and Retailing in the Presence of Consumers’ Valuation Uncertainty. KLU, Hamburg, November 2015.
  • Benchmarking in Air Transport – discussant at GARS workshop on Benchmarking in Public Utilities, HSB, Bremen, October 2015.
  • P2P Marketplaces and Retailing in the Presence of Consumers’ Valuation Uncertainty. University of Groningen, October 2015.
  • Overhauling MSCI 100 Using a longitudinal backbone case, Engineering Integrative Learning, University of Waterloo, March 2015.
  • Fare Prediction Websites and Transaction Prices: Empirical Evidence from the Airline Industry. German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Air Transport and Airport Research, Cologne, Germany, August 2014
  • Do Fare Prediction Websites Influence Transaction Prices? Empirical Evidence from the Airline Industry. Wilfrid Laurier University, SCM series, January 2014.
  • Strategic Consumer, Myopic Retailers. University of Cologne. August 2013.
  • Airline Contracts, Government Regulation and the International Airline Market. Anti-Trust Authority, Jerusalem, Israel, July 2013.
  • Airline Contracts, Government Regulation and the International Airline Market. The Civil Aviation Authority, Airport City, Israel, July 2013.
  • Airline Contracts, Government Regulation and the International Airline Market. University of Tokyo, December 2012.
  • Pricing strategies for congested multi-sided airport markets. The University of Kyoto, December 2012
  • Pricing strategies for congested multi-sided airport markets. The University of Tokyo, December 2012
  • Airline Contracts, Government Regulation and the International Airline Market. University of Cologne. June 2012.
  • Airline Contracts, Government Regulation and the International Airline Market. Worms University. June 2012.
  • Bargaining in Dual-Format Retailing, Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario, March 2012.
  • Bargaining in Dual-Format Retailing. PSI conference, Park City, February 2011.
  • Airport Governance and Regulation: Airports as One and Two-Sided Markets, UBC, Vancouver, May 2010.
  • Dynamic pricing in the presence of strategic and store-switching consumers, University of Toronto, January 2009.
  • On Price Volatility in the Airline Industry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, December 14, 2008.
  • On Dynamic Pricing in the Airline Industry, Dept. of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo, September 22, 2008.
  • A Dynamic Pricing Model under Competition, School of Economics and Management, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, May 9, 2007
  • A Dynamic Pricing Model under Competition, Olin School of Business, Washington University at St. Louis, April 20, 2007
  • A Dynamic Pricing Model under Competition, Dept. of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo, April 17, 2007
  • Revenue Management of Perishable Products under Competition, ERIM Seminar, Erasmus University Rotterdam, February 15, 2007
  • Revenue Management of Perishable Products under Competition, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, February 13, 2007
  • Revenue Management of Perishable Products under Competition, OPLOG Division Seminar, Sauder School of Business, UBC, January 22, 2007
  • Revenue Management of Perishable Products under Competition, OPLOG Division Seminar, Sauder School of Business, UBC, March 27, 2006
  • A Dynamic Pricing under Duopoly Competition, Industrial Engineering Division Seminar, Tel-Aviv University, December 13, 2005