Professor Denis Towill

Biography

Professor Denis Towill is currently Director of the Logistics Systems Dynamics Group at Cardiff University where he is directing supply chain engineering projects in the automotive, electronic, aerospace and construction market sectors. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1988. Since then he has served the Academy as an expert member of the Management of Technology Project Steering Group and the Construction Sector Inquiry Steering Group. He was also a member of the Technology Foresight Systems Engineering Panel.

After extensive industrial experience he rejoined academia and was promoted to Professor in 1970 at the University of Wales and was awarded the Degree of DSc from the University of Birmingham in 1977. Professor Towill has served as Head of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering and in 1988 was a member of the Executive Committee which oversaw the formation of the University of Wales Cardiff