My current research focusses on public contracting and its role in promoting innovation, resilience, and sustainability in supply chains. It is directly relevant for the UN Sustainable Development Goals No. 3, 9 and 12. Specific themes in my research programme include: (a) contracting for R&D and innovation to address societal challenges such as accessible and affordable healthcare, and national security, (b) contracting for resilience in pharmaceutical supply chains to curb shortages of medicines, and (c) procurement for sustainability and social value in the public sector. Through such work I cultivated an interest, more broadly, in the interplay between supply chain management and public policy. My research recently won the prestigious "Harold E. Fearon Best Paper Award" of the Journal of Supply Chain Management. 

I am interested in supervising PhD projects in the following areas: supply chain management; buyer-supplier relationships; innovation-oriented procurement; social value procurement; sustainable sourcing; pharmaceutical supply chains; healthcare supply chains; defence supply chains

Board Member, European Operations Management Association (EurOMA)

Associate Editor, Journal of Supply Chain Management (Wiley)

Associate Editor, International Journal of Operations and Production Management (Emerald)

Associate Editor, Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management (Elsevier)

Selected grants

UKRI Innovation & Research Caucus (2025). Understanding the impact of innovation policy on UK supply chains. (Project Co-I; collaboration with the University of Manchester Institute of Innovation Research). 

UKRI (EPSRC) Impact Accelerator Account Award (2025). Service business model innovation for SMEs and procurement. (Project Co-I).

The Research Council of Norway (2020-2024). Measures for Improved Availability of medicines and vaccines (MIA). International collaborative project (PI for Lancaster University). Grant No.: 300867. 

The British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants (2017-2019). Developing contracting capabilities for innovation-oriented public procurement (Project PI). Grant No.: SG161483.

Supply chain management; contracting; innovation-oriented public procurement; contracting for resilience; sustainability-oriented procurement; innovation policy; health policy

MSCI 579 Global Sourcing; CEMBA 502 Global Operations and Marketing Management in the Cyber Context

Kostas Selviaridis is Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management at the Department of Management Science, LUMS. He previously lived in Sweden and worked for Lund University (2010-2014). Kostas has held visiting positions at the Fisher College of Business at the Ohio State University; Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University; Tilburg University; BI Norwegian Business School; Stockholm School of Economics; EADA Business School; Aix-Marseille University; and the International Hellenic University.

Kostas holds a Ph.D. in Management Science from LUMS, with his work being co-awarded the 2008 Kingsman Prize for the best doctoral dissertation. He also received a M.Sc. in Operations Management from Manchester School of Management, UMIST, and a B.Sc. in Economics from the Department of Economics, Aristotle’s University of Thessaloniki. 

Kostas' engaged research with firms and public sector organisations is internationally recognised and has attracted external funding. His award-winning work has appeared in leading outlets including the Journal of Operations Management, Research Policy, Journal of Supply Chain Management, and Decision Sciences.

Kostas is an elected Board Member of the European Operations Management Association (EurOMA). He also serves as Associate Editor in the Journal of Supply Chain Management, the International Journal of Operations and Production Management, and the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management. He is a regular speaker and special sessions organiser at multiple international conferences. 

Kostas is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK. He has designed and taught undergraduate, postgraduate and Executive MBA courses in the UK, Sweden, France and Greece. He has successfully supervised to completion four PhD candidates in the recent past.

Supervision committee member for PhD candidate Joakim Kembro, Department of Industrial Management and Logistics, Lund University. PhD topic: Information sharing in supply chains (successfully completed in August 2015).