Yossi Sheffi (Hebrew: יוסי שפי; born April 10, 1948) is the Elisha Gray II Professor of Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

[citation needed] Sheffi is the author of nine books: Urban Transportation Networks, a textbook on transportation networks optimization (Prentice Hall, October 1985), The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage (MIT Press, October 2005) and Logistics Clusters: Delivering Value and Driving Growth (MIT Press, October 2012), The Power of Resilience: How the Best Companies Manage the Unexpected, (MIT Press, September 2015), Balancing Green: When to Embrace Sustainability in a Business (and When Not To) (MIT Press, 2018), The New (Ab)Normal: Reshaping Business and Supply Chain Strategy Beyond Covid-19 (CTL Media, 2020), A Shot in the Arm: How Science, Engineering, and Supply Chains Converged to Vaccinate the World (CTL Media, 2021), Strategic Planning for Dynamic Supply Chains: Preparing for Uncertainty Using Scenarios (Palgrave, 2022), and The Magic Conveyor Belt: Supply Chains, AI, and the Future of Work (CTL Media, 2023).

The Wall Street Journal, in a review of The Resilient Enterprise, said the book is "the timely analysis of an important – and often overlooked – aspect of business strategy.

Academic publications include: Non-academic publications include: Yossi Sheffi has founded and co-founded five companies: In an interview with CIO Magazine entitled "Captain Contingency", Sheffi gave his views on what companies should be doing to emulate firms like Wal-Mart and The Home Depot that perform well in natural disasters.

"[20] In a 2009 interview with the MIT Sloan Management Review, Sheffi said that economics would take precedence over the environment in the short term: "The next two, three years will be utterly dominated by the financial crisis, so I’m really hesitant to talk beyond that because every decision counts...For companies, it will boil down to having to make money.

[24] On December Sheffi was interviewed on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360, explaining the reasons for the airline delays that hit the US Northeast.