Dr. Mani is an associate professor of business administration with expertise in global supply chains. She holds a PhD from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai, and a BE from MS University in India. In fall 2025, she will serve as a visiting faculty member at the SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University.

Her research focuses on how supply chain imperatives shape operational decisions across key sectors, including automotive, electronics, energy, pharmaceuticals, and retail. Her topics include the impact of trade policy on national competitiveness, energy transition strategies, environmental compliance in the energy sector, secure electronics supply chains, specialty drug distribution, and labor and assortment decisions in retail.

Dr. Mani teaches the elective Sustainable Global Value Chains in the residential and executive MBA programs at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. She also leads the P3 Impact Award Program, a partnership between Concordia, the Darden School’s Institute for Business in Society, and the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Global Partnerships.

She collaborates with industry and policymakers on ESG standards, national security trade-offs, and mitigating counterfeit risk. She is a Franklin Fellow at the U.S. Department of State, a member of the Global Reporting Initiative’s working group on sustainability standards for the textile and apparel sector, and an expert advisor to the Critical Minerals Supply Chain working group at the Miller Center’s Ripples of Hope Project.