Raghda Bahaa El‐Din Taha is currently the Head of Supply Chain Management department, College of International Transport Logistics. She has her Ph.D. in Supply Chain Management at the Design Production Engineering Dept., Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University. She was working as an Assistant Lecturer at the German University in Cairo since August 2010. She has received her M.Sc. degree in October 2011 her B.Sc. degree in August 2009 from Ain Shams University. She started her research in material engineering published an international paper in the characterization of glass reinforced polypropylene using finite element analysis. In her M.Sc. she considered the industrial problem of balancing the assembly lines under different constraints. She published four papers in this area. She was awarded Emerging Economies Doctoral Student Award (EEDSA) in 2012. This award was created by the Production Operations Management Society (POMS) in USA to the student who demonstrates the greatest promise in an Operations Management related field. Also she was awarded best paper in IEOM conference 2015. Her research interest considers solving different industrial problems such as scheduling, supply chain management facility layout using different metaheuristic techniques.