Gyöngyi Kovács is the Erkko Professor in Humanitarian Logistics, and the Dean of Research at the Hanken School of Economics.

She is a founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management (JHLSCM) and is on the editorial board of several other journals. She was the first Director of the Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Research Institute (HUMLOG Institute) and has published extensively in the areas of humanitarian logistics and sustainable supply chain management. She was awarded humanitarian logistics researcher of the year 2020 by the American Logistics Aid Network ALAN. Recently, she has led the Horizon 2020 (EU) COVID-19 project HERoS (Health Emergency Response in Interconnected Systems), and since 2024 she is leading the Horizon Europe project WORM (Waste in Humanitarian Operations: Reduction and Minimisation).