Dr Hermione Parsons

Dr Hermione Parsons is the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Logistics Council. A supply chain career spanning three decades, Hermione is a supply chain and freight logistics specialist with executive management experience in public and private sector organisations.

Hermione’s career has focussed on end-to-end supply chain strategy, complexity, planning multimodal infrastructure and problem-solving freight logistics in metropolitan, regional and international markets. She has extensive executive management experience in port landside logistics, multimodal freight infrastructure, competition and regulation analyses, and supply chain reengineering in the food industry.

Dr Parsons founded and led an acclaimed university research and development Centre across two universities working to solve the systemic and emerging challenges facing industry. During this time, she led many ASEAN and APEC programs focusing on end- to-end supply chain issues. She is also the Co-founder and Co-chair of the industry funded Wayfinder: Supply Chain Careers for Women initiative.

Dr Parsons is a Non-Executive Director of the Melbourne Market Authority and Austrade’s Export Freight Advisory Board. Previous roles include Supply Chain Advisor to Asia Australia Society, Non-Executive Director of Food Innovation Australia Ltd (FIAL) and a member of the National Agricultural Labour Advisory Committee, the National Food Waste Strategy, Australia’s Food Traceability Program and VicTrack Board’s Freight Logistics Group.

Hermione has been the recipient of many industry, university and business awards and in 2020 was recognised as one of the 100 Most Influential Women in Supply Chain - Global Women Supply Chain Leaders Awards by B2G | Paris | Bahrain | Singapore.

PhD - Supply Chain (Monash), Master of Urban Planning - Intermodal Freight (Melbourne); Graduate Australian Institute Company Directors.