Ann Allen
INSEAD Humanitarian Research Group
Research Associate

Ann joined INSEAD’s Humanitarian Research Group (HRG) last fall in order to pursue an interest in both health supply chains and logistics in the humanitarian context. She earned her BA in International Studies and Sociology from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio and a Master’s degree in Logistics and Supply Chain Management from MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program. Prior to joining the HRG, Ann worked for Médecins Sans Frontiéres, first as a Supply Mobile Implementation Officer, and then as Supply Unit Manager in Nairobi, Kenya.

Albert Angehrn
INSEAD
Professor of Information Technology

Albert Angehrn is Swiss, grew up in Italy, and spends most of his time in France.  He holds a doctoral degree in mathematics and is currently Professor of Information Technology at INSEAD where he has been on the faculty since 1989. He also founded CALT, INSEAD’s Center for Advanced Learning Technologies (www.calt.insead.edu) and directed the Research Center over more than 10 years.

One of his passions is the design of games and simulations, as he strongly believes in Learning-by-Doing.  His current focus is on games that provide rich learning experiences by allowing users to interact with realistically-behaving virtual characters, operating within realistic contexts and situations - typically a global organization, but also in other specific environments, such as social or cross-cultural contexts.

His current focus is on Collaboration Dynamics and Collaborative Performance in global organizations. He is also designing new simulations that show how difficult it is to help people engage in productive collaborations, particularly if they are very diverse, geographically distributed, and engage in complex processes such as innovation (see a brief CNN article Tackling business problems with online games on the subject).

His other interests range from the organizational dynamics of change and innovation - a domain in which he has developed a large number of simulations used in top business schools and organizations world-wide - to the design and study of Web 2.0 environments (see for instance InnoTube) for knowledge exchange and learning networks dynamics.  His research has been published in several international academic publications. His projects have been awarded large research funds from the European Community, and bring him regularly in touch with interesting organizations such as IKEA or Ferrari, a number of banks and car manufacturers, and several innovative start-ups.

For more information, see www.insead.edu/facultyresearch/faculty/personal/aangehrn

Beatriz Ayala-Öström

Freelance Health Systems Development and Procurement and Supply Chain Management Consultant

Beatriz Ayala-Öström is an experienced health systems strengthening, procurement and supply chain management consultant working in over 25 resource limited countries for UN agencies, The Global Fund, GAVI, The World Bank, DFID, USAID, AusAID, Governments and international NGOs among others.

She specializes in the assessment, design, review, project management and effectiveness monitoring and evaluation of procurement and supply chain systems, funding architecture, integrated delivery systems, health system funding platforms, joint programming and demand mapping in health systems for essential drugs, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.

Beatriz serves in the Global Fund TRP, the GAVI IRC and the UNITAID PRC as a supply chain expert. She is also a WHO/PATH Project Optimize Advisory Group member. Her research interests include sustainable delivery systems, supply chain resilience, private sector lessons applicable to resource constrained environments and vice versa.

Cameron Birge
World Food Programme (Rome)
Logistics Officer, Global Logistics Cluster

Cameron Birge is a Logistics Officer for the Global Logistics Cluster at the United Nations World Food Programme in Rome, Italy. Cameron started his logistics career with five years in the United States Army, serving first as an infantry officer and later a convoy commander providing logistical support. Afterwards, he obtained his MsC in Logistics and Supply Chain Management from Cranfield University. From there, he joined WFP in South Sudan as an operations manager for the road rehabilitation project, an infrastructure operation which constructed 2200 km of road and dozens of bridges in an area devastated by over 20 years of conflict. He spent 4.5 years providing operational and logistical support in South Sudan, and during this time, also deployed to Peshawar to be the Logistics Cluster Coordinator for the 2010 Pakistan flood response.

Louise Bloom
Oxfam Great Britain
Project Manager, International Supply & Logistics

Louise Bloom is originally trained as a manufacturing engineer and moved to the NGO sector with Engineers Without Borders UK, and then humanitarian logistics - predominantly working with Save the Children. She worked in several roles in the UK, Myanmar, Dominican Republic and Haiti for the 2010 earthquake response - where she was the Health and Nutrition Logistician. Since then she has moved to Oxfam GB’s International Supply and Logistics team in the UK.

Louise Bloom has worked at Oxfam GB for nearly two years. Alongside the Supply and Logistics projects within the team, part of her role also covers: management of the logistics systems and procedures; visits to the country programmes as required; and responding to technical queries that come into the advise desk from Country programmes.

One of the largest projects she works closely with is the Helios project. Helios is a sector-wide project to improve the ability to deliver projects through better integration of supply chain management into project planning, management and delivery. Oxfam is pioneering this new Supply Chain software solution and the way of working within the sector.

With regards to sustainable food distributions in particular Louise is exploring collaborative ways of working closer with the food security and livelihood’s teams in emergencies. Sharing market knowledge in order to influence project design following Emergency Market Mapping and Analysis assessments she carries out in the first stages of a response.

Pierre Boulet-Desbareau

Freelance Logistics Expert

Pierre Boulet-Desbareau is specialized in humanitarian medical logistics, i.e. the art of deploying, installing and supplying emergency operations aiming to provide medical assistance to populations in danger. In addition to the humanitarian supply chain management, this expertise also covers other critical domains such as transport of patients, health facility management, food logistics, water/sanitation/hygiene, technical support to displaced/homeless populations (refugee camps, shelter, etc.), response to epidemics (vaccination campaigns, cholera treatment, etc.) and other infectious diseases (HIV/Aid, Tuberculosis, etc.)

Over the past 12 years Pierre has evolved both as Emergency Coordinator and Logistics Manager for Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), mainly in conflict settings, outbreak and natural disaster situations, including food crisis. For the last 6 years – as Director of the Logistics Department of the MSF Belgium section - he has worked on the definition of strategic visions to guide and motivate an international team (over 90 different nationalities) of multi-skilled logisticians deployed in 50 countries.

Pierre’s latest research and publications have been dedicated to the medical constraints on humanitarian logistics management (Mar. 2011) and the logistics innovation required to adapt to a changing environment (Dec. 2012). He is today helping the World Food Programme and UNICEF in their conduct of an independent and joint evaluation of the Global Logistics Cluster whose creation was based on the 2005 Humanitarian Reform.

Alice Bruneau
Nutriset
Operations Manager

Ms. Alice Bruneau holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the French College of Business and Developpement 3A (ESCD 3A) and a Masters of Agricultural development and Economic Policies from the University of Paris 1. She worked with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Costa Rica and the French NGO Agronomist and Veterinarians Without Borders in Cambodia before joining Nutriset SAS in 2008 as Operations Coordinator.

Ms. Bruneau recently took on the role of Operations Manager at Nutriset following a year in Chad, with the aim of strengthening Nutriset’s understanding of nutrition programming from the perspectives of the various stakeholders and end users with a focus on supply and distribution considerations. She is now responsible for the oversight of both the operations and logistics departments at Nutriset in France, who work in tandem to serve the various international organizations and implementing NGOs by supplying high quality nutritional food solutions to meet their programmatic needs. Ms. Bruneau’s role also entails the development of adapted tools and strategies to ensure greater access to and understanding of Nutriset’s products in the field.

Fathi Buhazza
Maximus Air
President & CEO and Founder of Care by Air

Fathi Hilal Buhazza’s passion for aviation and air cargo is equalled only by his commitment to helping others.

AS President and CEO he has developed Maximus Air into a highly successful and profitable operation and one which proudly boasts the position of the region’s leading all cargo airline. In parallel he has formulated and initiated a simple yet highly effective strategy of providing the much-needed airlift capability in support of global relief efforts.

In 2009, Buhazza instigated the "Care by Air" initiative which, together with the UAE Red Crescent, Etihad Airways and Abu Dhabi Airports Company, delivers humanitarian relief by providing the use of logistical resources and delivering supplies "at cost". Under this initiative, airport, cargo companies and fuel suppliers are able to help improve the lives of millions by donating empty space on flights at cost, waiving handling, landing or parking fees or discounting fuel prices. Already, it has made a huge difference to the work of relief organisations as they can now rely on private business partnerships to help them deliver aid where it is needed throughout the world.

He has over 30 years of experience in the aviation industry, including senior level positions encompassing both civil and military sectors. As Director of Operations at the Presidential Flight (Amiri Flight), he was involved in setting strategic plans to meet then current and future operational needs, as well as in ensuring safety, budget control and operational excellence in the day-to-day running of the nation’s elite airline. Buhazza was also responsible for successful training and implementation of a nationalization programme that achieved a record 97% success rate.

At the helm of Maximus he has overseen a growth in business from $12M to over $125M turnover, and the flying hours have increased fivefold. Also, from a heavy preponderance of UAE government work, Maximus has raised its international commercial work, which is the core growth of the business. Much of that work comes from "ACMI" partnerships with national and international airlines and logistic companies, to freight cargo in wide body A300-600RP2F.

Bervery Chawaguta
World Food Programme
Logistics Officer

Bervery Chawaguta entered the humanitarian logistics world in 2002, where she started as logistics assistant with WFP Zimbabwe. She has 10 years experience in humanitarian operations at national and international level, participating in emergency and non-emergency operations across the East and Southern Africa and Sudan. As Logistics officer (consultant) with WFP she coordinates logistics/supply chain aspects, to include research and analysis, logistics coordination, operations and information management.

In 2008, Bervery received a Global Excellence Award - Diversity/Inclusion from Lockheed Martin RSO, as she was recognized as a true embodiment of respect and inclusion, from planning and implementing team building synergies to help PAE Team, Darfur employees be a team in body, spirit and action.

Bervery’s passion to work in the humanitarian sector took her to conflict zones such as Darfur Region in Sudan and Somali Region of Ethiopia. The complexity of managing humanitarian logistics in these conflict zones saw Bervery undertaking further studies in Masters in Humanitarian Logistics and Management from University of Lugano, Switzerland. For her research studies, she developed a mathematical model for Optimizing Distribution of World Food Program’s food aid in Ethiopia concentrating on primary and secondary transportation system. In this study real scenarios were used to explain the problem and real data was used to develop the transportation problem using linear programming optimization model.

Prior to joining the humanitarian sector, Bervery worked for the Government of Zimbabwe in the then Ministry of Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement.

Andrea Coleman
Riders for Health
Co-Founder and CEO

Andrea Coleman is co-founder and CEO of Riders for Health. She and co- founder and husband, Barry Coleman, are life-long motorcyclists. They saw that well-maintained motorcycles in Africa meant health care delivered, money saved and people trained in saleable skills. Andrea’s motorcycle racing life and her work in promotion and sports management provided her with a practical outlook and a set of skills that have helped to guide the financial and advocacy development of Riders. “Introducing innovations for vehicle management in Africa to deliver health care requires persistence and an impatience with the status quo. I have both in abundance", she says.

Elaine Collins
Valid Nutrition
Finance Manager

Elaine joined Valid Nutrition as Finance Manager in April 2011. She began her accounting career with Deloitte working with a broad range of global and domestic clients within diverse sectors including Consumer, Manufacturing, I.T. and Energy. She worked with a not for profit in Kenya managing a wide spectrum of volunteers, fundraising and finance in both Nairobi and Western Kitui. She held a finance and legal position with the social innovation company, Ashoka. She holds a BEng in Electronic Engineering, from the University of Limerick, along with a PDA from Dublin City University. She is also a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Ireland (ACA) and the Irish Institute of Taxation (ITI).

Hilarie Cranmer
Humanitarian Training Initiative
Director

Dr. Cranmer is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, and clinical faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. As the Director of Education for the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Dr. Cranmer has founded and directed the Humanitarian Studies Initiative and the Global Women’s Health Fellowship. In its first 10 years, over 500 graduate students, medical residents, nurses, and physicians have completed these training programs. Her alumni have gone on to hold leadership positions in some of the premier humanitarian agencies in the world.

Dr. Cranmer’s research focus has been on educational initiatives to train future humanitarian providers. Her path towards program building began in post war Kosovo doing human rights investigations for Physicians for Human Rights. Her work in a mission hospital in Malawi concentrated on providing emergency obstetrical care for women, and especially those affected by AIDS. Responding to the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 with International Rescue Committee, and subsequently to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, her growing expertise in disaster relief was recognized in that she led the public health effort for the American Red Cross in Louisiana. Her most recent work after the earthquake in January 2010 was to build the largest field hospital in Haiti. In caring for over 5000 patients and their families with more than 700 international volunteers, this hospital was recognized by the UN and the US Government as being the best field hospital post disaster in the last 25 years. Her latest work with the Humanitarian Training Initiative includes the professionalization of humanitarian response, with a particular focus in simulation-based training, as evidenced by her recent directorship of a comprehensive simulation in Tunisia for the World Health Organization.

Olivier Delarue
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Head, International Corporate Partnerships

As the Head of International Corporate Partnerships at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Olivier Delarue leads UNHCR’s partnership-building efforts with the corporate sector out of UNHCR’s headquarters in Geneva.

International jurist by training, Olivier is a true UN homebody, having joined UNHCR almost 20 years ago. Before taking up his current position in 2005, he represented UNHCR in Switzerland and Liechtenstein (2001-2005). This followed a 3 year assignment in Rome with the World Food Programme and 5 years spent in the field working for UNHCR from Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Great Lakes region and Mauritania, where he helped to care for 80,000 refugees in the middle of the Sahara desert.

Having spearheaded the expansion of UNHCR’s corporate partnerships program from $750,000 in 2005 to $35 million in 2011 annually (90% cash and 10% gift in-kind), Olivier is a vocal advocate of public-private collaboration as a means of empowering refugees through innovate solutions that leverage the private sector’s unique skills, expertise and resources. He manages UNHCR’s flagship partnership with the IKEA Foundation. He is also responsible for collaboration with global partners such as Google, Facebook, HP, Microsoft/Skype, UPS and Yahoo! as well as developing the UNHCR private sector corporate engagement in 9 priority countries.

Luke Disney
North Star Alliance
Executive Director

Luke joined North Star in 2007, its inaugural year, as Director Fundraising and Communications. Prior to North Star, Luke worked at TNT, the global express delivery company as Director Communications for the Moving the World initiative, where he worked on the groundbreaking partnership with the UN World Food Programme, launched in 2002. This work was praised by former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan as "an excellent example of the way private corporations can cooperate with United Nations agencies to do vital life-saving work".

Previously, Luke has worked as a journalist, corporate communications consultant and a teacher. He holds a Masters degree in Social Sciences from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and a Bachelor of Arts from Dalhousie University, Canada.

Luke currently resides in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Ozlem Ergun
Georgia Institute of Technology
Associate Professor, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Dr. Özlem Ergun is an associate professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. She is also a co-founder and co-director of the Health and Humanitarian Logistics Research Center at the Supply Chain and Logistics Institute. She received a B.S. in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University in 1996 and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2001. Professor Ergun’s research focuses on the design and management of large-scale networks. Specifically, she studies logistics and communications networks that are dynamic and partially decentralized. She has recently focused on understanding how collaboration among different entities can help the entities to be more efficient as well as create value for the overall system. She has applied her work on network design, management and collaboration to problems arising in the airline, ocean cargo and trucking industries.

Recently, Dr. Ergun has taken a leadership role in promoting the use of systems thinking and mathematical modeling in applications with societal. As the co-director of Center for Health and Humanitarian Logistics at Georgia Tech, she has worked with organizations that respond to humanitarian crisis around the world, including: World Food Programme, CARE USA, FEMA, USACE, CDC, AFCEMA, and MedShare International.

Professor Ergun teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in optimization and logistics. She was awarded the NSF Career Award in 2003. She won the EURO/INFORMS 2007 Management Science Strategic Innovation Prize given on the subject of Logistics in 2007.

George Fenton
Humanitarian Logistics Association (HLA)
Co-Founder and Chairman

Mr Fenton is co-founder and chairman of the Humanitarian Logistics Association, which promotes the professionalization of the sector; he is engaged in a number of disaster management activities that help ensure that the aid sector is better placed to respond effectively to crisis: In 2002, he set up the inter-agency working group on disaster preparedness for East Africa, which promotes collaboration and information sharing on humanitarian issues. This work links with UN-OCHA’s contingency planning initiatives. In 2003, together with IFRC and UN-WFP logistics offices he co-founded the Global Fleet Forum, which now tackles key fleet management knowledge issues facing the aid community. In 2006, together with several large international non-governmental organisations, Mr Fenton led the establishment of the Supply Chain Consortium (SCC) – an initiative to improve first wave emergency logistics response.

Mr Fenton works as Supply-Chain Director for World Vision International’s Humanitarian Operations Division. As such, he is responsible for the global management of non-food relief items for emergency response and facilitates the development of humanitarian logistics capacity within the organisation, which is one of the largest NGOs in the world.

Mr Fenton has 30 years of relief and development experience, gained in the private and NGO sectors, as a programme manager, logistics and transport consultant and executive.

Karl Gernandt
Kuehne+Nagel International AG
Chairman

After completing his studies in business administration at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, Karl Gernandt worked for Deutsche Bank AG from 1988 to 1995. There he held positions including that of assistant to the Spokesman of the Board of Management and the Chairman of the Supervisory Board, as well as functions in international banking in Germany, Asia and USA.

From 1996 to 1999 he set his mark on the Financial Institution Group of A.T. Kearney GmbH. In 1999 Gernandt moved to Holcim (Deutschland) AG as Chairman of the Board of Management, and was at the same time a member of the European Management Team of Holcim Ltd., Switzerland. In March 2007 he became CEO of Holcim Western Europe, based in Brussels. Since October 1, 2008 Karl Gernandt has been nominated as CEO of Kuehne Holding AG, Schindellegi, and a board member of the Kuehne Foundation. The Foundation is the major supporter of the Kühne Logistics University of which Gernandt is the Chairman of the Supervisory Board since February 2010. He is also Managing Director of the Klaus-Michael Kuehne Foundation in Hamburg. Since May 10th 2011 – following Klaus-Michael Kuehne’s recommendation – Karl Gernandt was elected Chairman of Kühne + Nagel International AG and will ensure stability and continuity, fostering the company’s further development as Mr. Kuehne’s successor.

Jarrod Goentzel
MIT Humanitarian Response Lab
Founder and Director

Jarrod Goentzel is founder and director of the MIT Humanitarian Response Lab, which strives to make supply chains more responsive to human needs. His research focuses on supply chain design and management, transportation procurement and planning, humanitarian needs assessments, information management and the use of technology to facilitate decision-making. Based in the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, Dr. Goentzel has developed graduate-level courses in supply chain finance, international operations and humanitarian logistics. Previously, Dr. Goentzel was Executive Director of the MIT Supply Chain Management program, a nine-month professional master’s degree program. He joined MIT in 2003 to establish the MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program with the Zaragoza Logistics Center in Spain.

Andrews Wongani Gunda
Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI)
Head, Global Nutrition Program Malawi

Andrews Wongani Gunda has designed and implemented numerous Public Health and Nutrition Programs such as the Community Management of Acute Malnutrition programs, Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV, Water and hygiene Projects and has provided Quality Assurance and Control Assistance to the Breast Feeding, Antiretroviral and Nutrition Study at the University of North Carolina in Malawi. He has knowledge around Supply Chain Management of the Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Foods (RUTF) and the associated commodities.

As a lead person for CHAI’s Global Nutrition Program, Andrews has provided assistance to forecasting, pricing and shipping advise across countries; networked UNICEF, Global funds, WFP and others on RUTF procurement and distribution; worked with UNICEF country teams to manage smooth transition pathways; vetted forecasts, and approve order requisitions for countries benefiting from CHAI/UNITAID RUTF Program and support technical review of documents, including training materials, M&E tools and propose best practices. To date, he has provided the lead developing Nutrition Procurement and Distribution Plans for both Malawi and Lesotho.

Andrews has both a Masters of Philosophy in International Community Health from the University of Oslo, Norway and Bachelors of Science Degree from the University of Malawi. Since the attainment of these certificates, he has worked in institutions that take government the number one partner in all its in-country engagements.

Marianne Jahre
Department of Strategy and Logistics, BI Norwegian Business School and Department of Industrial Management and Logistics, Lund University
Professor

Marianne Jahre is Professor of Logistics at Lund University in Sweden and BI Norwegian Business School, located in Oslo. Her current research interests include disaster relief logistics, design and development of logistics networks and the role of service providers. She has co-edited and co-authored several books and published articles in International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, International Journal of Logistics: Research and Applications and International Journal of Logistics Management. She won the Outstanding Paper Award at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2009 from Emerald.

Jahre received her PhD in logistics in 1995 at Chalmers University of Technology and is now Docent there and Visiting Professor at Universite de la Mediterranee in France. Over the years, she has headed a number of research projects on various subjects including environmental logistics, packaging, logistics networks and the construction industry. Her teaching includes Master of Science in logistics, operations and supply chain management and supervision of PhD and master students in the field. She is an international delegate to the Norwegian Red Cross and during the fall of 2009 undertook a project on health supply chains in Uganda for UNICEF. As head of the research project "Contribute", co-funded by the Norwegian Research Council, Everywhere Humanitarian Response and Logistics Services, Wilh. Wilhelmsen ASA and BI Norwegian Business School, Jahre has during the past 18 months worked together with Everywhere and International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Society to develop the Humanitarian Logistics Ind.

Francois Kayitakire
Joint Research Center of the European Commission
Senior Scientist, Monitoring Agricultural Resources Unit

Francois Kayitakire is a senior scientist at the Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Union based in Ispra, Italy. He’s leading the Food Security Assessment (FOODSEC) team within the Unit for Monitoring Agricultural Resources (MARS). The core activity of the FOODSEC team is to provide early warning on food security crisis in countries at risk, using satellite imagery and crop yield forecast models. FOODSEC team conducts research on modeling food security indicators.

Before joining the FOODSEC team, Francois was with the Unit for Global Security and Crisis Management at the JRC. His work focused on building pieces of an armed conflict early-warning system and understanding their root causes. He worked also on monitoring natural resources that are susceptible to fuel armed conflicts, and on the use of satellite imagery to support post-disaster needs assessments.

He holds a Ph.D. degree in Agricultural Sciences received in 2006 from the Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium. While working as researcher at the UCL, from 1998 to 2004, he focused on forest mapping and urban green area management using satellite imagery.

From November 2004 to August 2005, he was with the Department for Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment of the Walloon Region, Belgium, in charge of environmental state data analysis and mapping, and he was the regional focal point for the European Environmental Agency.

Pinar Keskinocak
Georgia Institute of Technology
Joseph C. Mello Professor, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Pinar Keskinocak is the Joseph C. Mello Professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the co-founder and co-director of the Center for Humanitarian Logistics at Georgia Institute of Technology. She also serves as the Associate Director for Research at the Health Systems Institute at Georgia Tech.

Her research focuses on applications of operations research and management science with societal impact (particularly health and humanitarian applications), supply chain management, pricing and revenue management, and logistics/transportation. She has worked on projects in several industries including automotive, semiconductor, paper manufacturing, printing, healthcare, hotels, and airlines. Her research has been published in journals such as Operations Research, Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, IIE Transactions, Naval Research Logistics, and Interfaces.

Jan Komrska
UNICEF
Contracts Specialist, Essential Medicines & Nutrition, Medicines and Nutrition Center

Laura Kopczak
Logistics Center MIT-Zaragoza
Adjunct Professor

Laura Rock Kopczak is a researcher, educator and consultant specializing in Supply Chain Management, a field of business in which she has over twenty-five years of teaching, consulting and industry experience. In keeping with her current focus on humanitarian and global health supply chains, she works half time as a professor at ZLC (www.zlc.edu.es) and half time as a consultant with humanitarian organizations, including IFRC, Save the Children, MSF, Oxfam, UNHCR, UNICEF, the UN WASH cluster, GAVI, PSI, JSI and Fritz Institute. She has a BS in Electrical Engineering from SUNY/Buffalo, an MBA from Columbia Business School and a PhD in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management from Stanford University.

Previously she worked as a professor at Stanford University and as one of three co-directors of the Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum. During that time she consulted with many companies from the high tech, chemical, automotive and logistics services industries. Dr. Kopczak has lived overseas in Japan, France and Spain and has taught courses on Supply Chain Management in Switzerland, the Netherlands, Hong Kong and Spain. Previous to pursuing an academic career, she worked for ten years at Hewlett-Packard Company. Dr. Kopczak splits her time between Saugerties, New York and Zaragoza, Spain. She is an avid practitioner of the martial art aikido.

Phoebe Kung'u
Oxfam
Regional Supply Manager, International Division Purchasing Lead

Phoebe Kung'u has 18 years of experience in Supply Chain in Humanitarian and Development sector.She is currently the Regional Supply Manager and International Division Purchasing Lead for Oxfam GB based in Nairobi, Kenya with responsibility for managing the regional project supply needs.She plays a key role in providing design and implementation of professional procurement in a complex cross border operation at the Oxfam GB’s Regional Office for Horn East and Central Africa.She coordinates sourcing activities by exploring the most efficient and cost effective means of commodity sourcing, and timely delivery to the required destinations.20% of her job is dedicated in working with other technical staff in Supply Chain in Oxfam GB to help achieve and maintain a consistently adequate professional performance in purchasing practice in Oxfam GB International Division by settings standards, providing guidelines and giving advice.

Prior to joining Oxfam GB in 2003, Phoebe worked with International Committee of the Red Cross from 1994 – 2003 first as an Administrator in Supply and Logistics and later as a Supply Chain Manager for 5 yrs.

Phoebe holds a Master of Science in Logistics management from Aston University in UK and maintains active membership in the Chartered Institute of Purchasing Supply, Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport and Kenya Institute of Supply Management.

Adeline Lescanne-Gautier
Nutriset
General Manager

Mrs. Adeline Lescanne-Gautier holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the French College of Advanced Studies in International Agro-Development (ISTOM) and a Masters of Sociology in Applied Rural Development from the University of Wageningen, in the Netherlands. She joined Nutriset SAS in 2003 and is responsible for developing Nutriset’s strategy for the "PlumpyField" network of franchises, focusing on local and sustainable production of Plumpy'nut® in the developing world.

Between 2004 and 2012, 13 franchises were established—in Niger, Ethiopia, Sudan or India. These franchises are currently supplying international organizations and NGOs implementing humanitarian programs in the field.

In 2007, Mrs. Lescanne-Gautier became Director of Operations at Nutriset, overseeing the operations of the logistics and commercial departments. In 2010, Mrs. Lescanne-Gautier took on the role of Deputy General Manager of Nutriset while continuing to represent the interests of the “PlumpyField” network both at Nutriset and in the wider nutrition and development community.

Since 2003, Mrs. Lescanne-Gautier has continued to develop her expertise in: initiating feasibility studies; selecting local partners; and ensuring appropriate systems are put in place for the transfer of technology via training on technical and quality control aspects of programming. Mrs. Lescanne-Gautier is currently serving as General Manager for Nutrsiet.

Maeve Magner
RTT Trans Africa
CEO

Maeve Magner is the CEO of RTT Trans Africa, the largest privately owned Supply Chain organization in Africa and lead logistics provider to the US Government Presidents Emergency Plan For Aids Relief (PEPFAR). Maeve has a wealth of international experience in both the public and private sectors, with over 25 years’ experience in supply chain management (SCM), working for organizations such as Dell and Capgemini and prior to joining RTT, the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) where she was the Supply Chain Director for 3 years. During her time there, Maeve became one of the most respected voices in global health supply chain in developing countries and participates in SCM advisory panels across the globe for USAID, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) etc and works with donor organizations such as GAVI and GFATM to improve public health supply chains across Africa.

A MBA graduate from Bond University Australia, Maeve has lived and worked across the globe from her home country of Ireland, to USA, Australia and now South Africa.

Ed Martinez
UPS Foundation
Director

As President for The UPS Foundation, Ed Martinez is responsible for the operations and management of its global philanthropic and corporate relations programs.

Mr. Martinez joined UPS in 1976 as a package handler in UPS’s South Florida operation where he subsequently entered the management ranks within operations and the Industrial Engineering functions. Martinez later held senior management positions in the areas of Corporate Accounting and Finance, Risk Management, and Acquisitions. In these capacities, he also served UPS’s subsidiaries and International Region.

Martinez served as corporate counsel in the UPS Legal Department where his practice included commercial transactions, intellectual property and information technology matters, as well as civil litigation.

Prior to assuming the position as President, he served as Director of Philanthropy and Corporate Relations for the UPS Foundation.

In addition to his corporate responsibilities, Martinez serves as Vice-Chairperson and represents UPS on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Disaster Management and serves as Chairperson of its Logistics Emergency Team. He currently serves as a board member with the Foundation for Independent Higher Education’s UPS National Venture Fund. He is also a member of the Corporate Advisory Board for The National Council of La Raza organization as well as corporate liaison to the Points of Light Institutes’ Service Council. He also serves as the Chair of the Corporate Development Council for the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, a member of the board for The Metro Atlanta YMCA and sits on the International Association for Volunteer Effort (IAVE) Global Corporate Volunteer Council.

Born in Havana, Cuba, Martinez emigrated to the United States with his family in 1960. He has lived in Atlanta since 1992, with his wife and three children.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Accounting from the University of Miami, Florida and a Juris Doctor degree from the Nova Southeastern University Law School. A member of the American Bar Association, Martinez is also a member of the Florida Bar and the Hispanic National Bar Association.

Rob McConnell
INSEAD Humanitarian Research Group
Executive in Residence

Rob McConnell is a leading expert on humanitarian vehicle fleet management. In field and management roles he has worked with a wide range of aid and development organisations, including; Red Cross, several UN agencies and NGOs developing and implementing fleet management strategies and policies.

Co-founder and first director of the Fleet Forum, Rob has a background in transport and logistics and has been involved in humanitarian operations for over 12 years. He holds a Masters Degree in Humanitarian Logistics & Management, works as an independent consultant, with the INSEAD Humanitarian Research Group and is on the Advisory Board of the Humanitarian Logistics Association

Susanne Meier
Deutsche Post DHL
Vice President, Corporate Responsibility GoHelp

Susanne Meier has been Vice President Corporate Responsibility - GoHelp at Deutsche Post DHL since 2010. In this role, she is in charge of the Global Disaster Management Program of Deutsche Post DHL and runs the Global UN Partnership. From 2006 to 2009, Ms. Meier served as Director of Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy and Policy at Deutsche Post DHL and was responsible for the development and implementation of the Group’s CR strategy. In 2004, Ms. Meier was employed as Senior Advisor for the Chairman of the International Post Corporation in Brussels where she was responsible for strategic issues such as the development of a joint strategy for the Universal Service Obligation.

From 1995 to 2003, Ms. Meier served as head of several departments at Deutsche Post headquarters, including Strategy Direct Marketing and Press Distribution, Marketing Service Mail, and Sales Management. First she worked as a Scientific Researcher at German Monopoly Commission, Cologne.

With an Executive MBA in Marketing degree from the University of Münster, Ms. Meier has also worked as Lecturer at the DDA (German Direct Marketing Academy) and BAW (Bavarian Academy for Advertising and Marketing.

Paul Molinaro
UNICEF
Emergency Logistics Officer

Responsible for coordinating of a number of change management projects designed to transform the UNICEF supply function. Within the Supply function, Paul currently leads the Innovation, Data Analysis and Knowledge Management areas of work. Prior to this role he was responsible for various emergency logistics operations in different countries, for UNICEF and other organizations. He holds an MSc in Defense Logistics Management from Cranfield University.

Daniel Mumuni
Partnership for Child Development (PCD)
Regional Director, Western Africa

Daniel Mumuni is the Western Africa Regional director of the Partnership for Child Development (PCD). His work involves leading the provision of technical assistance to several governments in the Western African region on School health and school feeding in particular. He has over the last years worked to build networks, coordinated academic research and generated evidence to guide the design and implementation of government led school feeding programmes. He has experience working with civil society and NGOs in advocacy and pilots towards the development and enhancement of sustainable school feeding supply chain systems. His major interest lies in building effective linkages between school feeding and local agriculture. He is a graduate of the University of Amsterdam in International Development Studies (MSc) and the University of Ghana where he obtained his bachelor’s degree in sociology. He is a regular speaker and commentator at seminars and conferences on school feeding.

Susan Ng'ong'a
Red Cross, Kenya
Head, Supply Chain Management Department

Susan is currently the Head of Supply Chain at Kenya Red Cross Society a position she has held from 2009 to-date. Hitherto this appointment Susan had been the Supply Chain Manager responsible for Procurement, Warehousing, Logistics and Transport Fleet Management since August 2006. Susan is a holder of a Certificate in International Masters in Practicing Management (IMPM), has finalised her Executive Masters of Business Administration from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture (JKUAT) in Nairobi, Kenya and will be graduating in July 2012 and holder of Bachelors degree in Business Administration from Newport University (USA), she also obtained a Diploma in Business Management specializing in Secretarial Studies and a Diploma in Leadership & Management both form Strathmore University in Nairobi Kenya. Susan is a member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supplies (UK) and is currently finalising her Major Paper for the Masters in Practicing Management at Lancaster University (UK). She began her career as an Executive Personal Assistant at Kilonzo & Company Advocates before joining the Society in February 2003 as the Personal Assistant to the Secretary General at Kenya Red Cross Society.

Lars Peter Nissen
Assessment Capacities Project
Project Director

Lars Peter has more than 10 years experience within the humanitarian field. His experience ranges from first line response to sudden onset natural disasters to complex emergencies and fragile states. He has worked extensively with disaster risk reduction, disaster response and capacity building. He is a member of the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) Team for Denmark. He has been the Project Director of ACAPS since January 2010.

Gisli Olafsson
NetHope
Global Program Director Emergency Response

Gisli Olafsson has been the Emergency Response Director of NetHope since November 2010. In his current role he is responsible for emergency preparedness and emergency response activities related to ICT within the NetHope member organizations. Prior to that role he worked as a Disaster Management – Technical Advisor for Microsoft Corporation from September 2007 to October 2010. In that capacity, Gisli was responsible for providing guidance to international organizations, such as UN, IFRC, World Bank, Commonwealth, USAID and NATO, on the effective use of information and communication technology (ICT) to enhance response to natural disasters. Gisli has over 17 years of experience in the field of disaster management and is an active member of the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) team, a team of experienced disaster managers which are on stand-by to deploy anywhere in the world on a 6 hour notice to coordinate the first response of the international community to disasters on behalf of the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). In recent years Gisli has participated in disaster field missions in connections with floods in Ghana (2007), Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar (2008), Hurricane Ike in Texas (2008), Sichuan Earthquake (2008), Pandemic Outbreak (2009), West Sumatra Earthquake (2009), Haiti Earthquake (2010), Japan Earthquake/Tsunami (2011) and Horn of Africa Famine (2011).

Farshid Raminfar
Norwegian Refugee Council, Iran
Logistics Officer

After working in different areas in the commercial sector, Farshid enjoys working in the humanitarian world since 2001. First he joint MSF and WFP as a Logistician in Iran and Afghanistan, and later Global Partners (UK) in Iran as Project Assistant. He is now working as Logistics Officer in Norwegian Refugee Council in Iran. Farshid has supported numerous emergency operations and developed extensive experience in supporting medical aid operations in IDP camps in Afghanistan, dealing with marine operations in support of Iraqi emergency operations and dealing with distribution, warehouse management and landside transportation to provide assistance to Iraqi and Afghan refugees living in camps in Iran. Since Farshid is working as Logistics Officer in Norwegian Refugee Council in Iran he supports their activities in assisting Afghan refugees in Iran. Farshid is an affiliate member of CILT (UK), and as a member of the HLA he assists in the preparation of monthly “HLA Newsletter” as researcher/author and is responsible for assembling the newsletter. Farshid is also member of the Standby Task Force of Crisis Mappers. With the UN online Volunteers Farshid assisted in 2011 UN OCHA for crisis mapping efforts in Lybia along with a team of ten members that was awarded as best UN online volunteers of 2011

Peter Schaller
World Food Programme
Head of Logistics, Pakistan

Peter Schaller, Head of Logistics in Pakistan, joined the World Food Programme (WFP) in 2000, initially as Logistics Officer for Emergency operations, based in Sudan. Since then he has managed various complex Emergency Operations in Iraq (2003/04), Liberia (2003), Sudan (2004/07), Democratic Republic of Congo (2007/10) before moving to his present assignment in Pakistan.

All these were large-scale relief operations, providing assistance to millions of beneficiaries including rehabilitation of infrastructure and roads to gain access to remote areas of intervention. In Sudan for example, WFP logistics was responsible for building 3,500 miles of roads to reduce dependency on highly expensive airdrops, establishing over 800 storage facilities within six months and deploying a fleet of 200 trucks to provide food to more than 5 million people.

For the Iraq intervention, WFP assumed responsibility for feeding the entire population – 27 million people, a vast operation involving the transport of food through multiple corridors, 24 hours a day for more than six months.

Since arriving in Pakistan, Peter took on the huge challenges of the 2010 floods disaster, in which 20% of the entire country was under water with vast destruction of infrastructure and 20 million people affected, most of whom were left without homes or livelihoods. WFP geared up quickly to reach 7.5 million of worst affected, using every possible means of transport, including trucks, hovercraft, boats, donkeys, helicopters and fixed wing aircraft.

As well as managing WFP logistics operations, Peter has been in overall charge of the Logistics Cluster, which handles the coordination, information management and movement of relief items for the whole humanitarian community, including identifying gaps and constraints and providing solutions.

Olaf Scholz
City of Hamburg
Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg

Olaf Scholz is the First Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and President of the Hamburg Senate. Mr. Scholz was born in Osnabrück, Germany in 1958. After receiving his Law Degree he became a lawyer in 1985. He has a long career in the Social Democratic Party (SPD) which he joined at the age of only 17. In 1998 he was elected in the constituency of Hamburg-Altona to become a member of the German Bundestag. He held different positions in the SPD like Chairman of the Hamburg SPD and Secretary General of the SPD Germany. In 2007 he became Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs for the Federal Republic of Germany, followed by positions of Vice Chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the German Bundestag, Chairman of the Hamburg SPD and Vice Chairman of the SPD Germany in 2009. Since 2011 he is holding the position of First Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and President of the Hamburg Senate. Mr. Scholz is married and resides in Hamburg.

Birgitte Stalder-Olsen
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Head, Global Logistics Service

Mrs. Birgitte Stalder-Olsen holds the position of Head of Global Logistics Service (GLS) at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). Since 2004 she has been in charge of IFRC’s global logistics function, including a multi-location global set-up (permanent units in Geneva, Kuala Lumpur, Panama, Nairobi, Beirut, Dubai, and Grand Canary Island). GLS has an annual turnover of over CHF 400 million and includes up to 80 international logistics staff worldwide.

In 2006, Mrs. Olsen designed a new logistics strategy and led a step-change process for IFRC logistics to move from centralized toward a regionalized model of operation. Having successfully accomplished this transition for logistics, Mrs. Olsen took over a temporary position as IFRC Deputy Director for Disaster Management (2007-2009) to develop a new integrated DM approach, reflective of IFRC strategic priorities.

In June 2009 Mrs Olsen resumed back the post of Head of IFRC Global Logistics Service.

Mrs Olsen’s professional background includes 30 years of experience in humanitarian logistics. Her much earlier employment record includes logistics positions in ICRC and Danish Red Cross. She has concluded field delegate missions in Thailand, Poland, Lebanon, Cyprus and Uganda.

Andrew Stanhope
World Food Programme
Deputy Global Logistics Cluster Coordinator

Andrew Stanhope is currently the Deputy Global Logistics Cluster coordinator at the United Nations World Food Programme in Rome, Italy. A national of the UK and USA, Andrew started work in humanitarian logistics and water and sanitation projects in Central America in 1996. He spent several years working for NGOs in El Salvador and in Honduras during the Hurricane Mitch response. Andrew joined WFP as Logistics Officer in 2001 for the El Salvador earthquake response. He completed four years in El Salvador, during which time he also undertook emergency deployments to Zimbabwe, the Iraq Operation and South Sudan where he helped start WFPs roads rehabilitation and demining project. Andrew returned El Salvador as Head of Logistics and Procurement for WFP, travelling extensively in an emergency response capacity to various regional and corporate emergencies including Hurricane Katrina, Uruguay flood operation with UNDAC, Peru Pisco earthquake, Mexico floods, 2008 Haiti hurricane response, the 2009 Philippines typhoon response and the 2010 Haiti earthquake response.

Daniel Stauffacher
ICT4Peace Foundation
Founder and Chairman

Daniel Stauffacher, a former Ambassador of Switzerland, has a Ph.D. in law from the University of Zürich and a Master’s degree in International Economic Affairs from Columbia University, New York. After working for the Swiss private sector, he joined the United Nations in 1982 and worked in New York, Laos and China.

In 1990 he joined the Swiss Federal Office for Foreign Economic Affairs (Bawi), where he was responsible for Economic and Financial Co-operation with major Asian countries and with Central and Eastern Europe. In 1995, he was posted to the Swiss Mission to the European Union in Brussels as the Counselor for Economic and Financial Affairs.

In 1999, he became an Ambassador of Switzerland and the Special Representative for the UN World Summit on Social Development in June 2000 in Geneva (Copenhagen plus Five). Daniel Stauffacher was also the Swiss Government’s Ambassador and Special Representative for the organization of the UN World Summit on the Information Society that was held in Geneva in 2003 and in Tunis 2005. He was a member of the UN ICT Task Force, the Strategy Group on Information Society of the Swiss Government and a Special Advisor to the UN Under-Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs for ICT for Development.

Since 2007 he is a Special Advisor to the UN ASG Chief Information Technology Officer for the UN Crisis Information Management Strategy. He is the Founder and Chairman of the ICT4Peace Foundation, a member of the Board of Directors of the World Wide Web Foundation. He is also the Chair of the International Advisory Board of the Master Programme of Advanced Studies in Humanitarian Logistics and Management of the University della Svizzera Italiana (Faculty of Economics), Lugano, and an Advisor to the Chair of Sociology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH, Zurich, for the FuturICT.eu Flagship Project. He is also the President of Daniel Stauffacher + Partners, a consulting firm in Switzerland.

Julie Swann
Georgia Institute of Technology
Associate Professor, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Julie Swann is an associate professor in the School of ISyE at Georgia Tech. She received her B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1996 and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences from Northwestern in 1998 and 2001, respectively. In addition to her university experience, Dr. Swann participated in several research projects at General Motors and IBM, focusing on pricing in different industries. At General Motors, Dr. Swann developed a tool integrating pricing, production and distribution of vehicles while meeting Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) requirements. At IBM, she explored pricing models for efficient bandwidth allocation.

Dr. Swann is currently focused on the modeling and analysis of problems and algorithms in logistics, transportation and supply chain management. She has particular interests in developing and analyzing tools to manage demand, such as pricing, revenue management, or lead-time quotation, to increase the flexibility in the system and is currently doing work in humanitarian supply chains. Other research interests include applications of economics and optimization to healthcare policy.

Rudolf Tangermann
World Health Organization (Geneva)
Pediatrician and Epidemiologist, Polio Eradication Initiative

Dr. Rudolf Tangermann is a German pediatrician and epidemiologist working with the Polio Eradication Initiative at WHO Headquarters in Geneva. Following his medical studies and pediatric specialization in Bonn and Dusseldorf, Germany, he spent four years at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, USA, first in CDC’s “Epidemic Intelligence Service", the CDC’s two-year epidemiology training programme, and then in the CDC’s preventive medicine specialty residency programme. Dr. Tangermann subsequently joined the World Health Organization, Western Pacific Regional Office (WPRO) in Manila, Phillippines, where he worked as WHO advisor to the vaccination programme of the Philippines (2 years), followed by 3 years as medical officer in the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) of the WPRO office. While working in the WHO Western Pacific Region, Dr Tangermann got involved in the regional polio eradication effort, working particularly in China and the Philippines. For the last 14 years, he has worked on polio eradication and immunization issues at the global level, with emphasis on assisting with implementation of polio eradication field strategies (supplementary immunization campaigns, disease surveillance) in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Laura Thompson
International Organization for Migration
Deputy Director General

On 29 June 2009, Ambassador Laura Thompson was elected Deputy Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). She assumed her post on 1 September 2009.

Ambassador Thompson was formerly the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva, Switzerland. She is a Costa Rican national with experience in multilateral international negotiations.

As Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva, Ms. Thompson had leadership responsibility for key governing bodies on migration and refugee-related matters with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (2007-2009) and the International Organization for Migration (1996-1998), enhancing her understanding of humanitarian assistance issues. Ambassador Thompson also acted as chair of governing bodies of the United Nations Compensation Commission, the World Intellectual Property Organization and the International Labour Organization.

Prior to this, Ms. Thompson was First Secretary (1994-1996) and then Counsellor (1996-1998) at the Permanent Mission of Costa Rica to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva. She also served as Cultural Attaché of the Delegation of Costa Rica to UNESCO in Paris during all of 1989.

In addition to her diplomatic experience, Ms. Thompson held various posts as Legal Counsel for International Organizations in Geneva, including the United Nations Compensation Commission (1998-2004) and the Secretariat of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal (2004-2007), experiences that equipped her with indepth understanding of the functioning of International Organizations. Between 1991 and 1992, Ms. Thompson was Partner in a law firm in Athens, Greece.

Ambassador Thompson holds a Masters degree in International Relations, specialising in international law, from the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales (Geneva, Switzerland). She also holds a Bachelors degree in law from the University of Costa Rica.

In addition to Spanish, her mother tongue, Ambassador Thompson is fluent in English, French and Greek, and has a basic knowledge of Italian and Portuguese.

Muntaqa Umar-Sadiq
Federal Republic of Nigeria
Technical Advisor to the Honourable Minister of State for Health

As part of his role, Muntaqa oversees critical policy formulation/reviews and performance management projects in a number of parastatals and departments in the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH): including the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRD), Department of Food and Drugs (DFD), National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) and National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC).

Specifically, he co-authored the 2012 drug distribution guidelines for the FMOH and is leading the ministry’s efforts to streamline supply chain, logistics and drug distribution in Nigeria.In addition, he is also part of a team leading the ministry’s drive to unlock the market potential for health services and commodities within the country, by creating an enabling environment for the private health sector, strengthening the regulatory role of government and focussing on five healthcare sub segments.

He is a graduate from the University of Cambridge, England, where he did an M.Phil in Bioscience Enterprise. He also undertook a 6 year MBBS at Imperial College School of Medicine, London, and holds an intercalated BSc in Management (with Finance & Health Economics) from the Tanaka Business School, London.

After internships at Goldman Sachs and Mckinsey & Company, he commenced his career as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley where he focused on the Healthcare & Pharmaceutical sector – and advised healthcare clients (govt. agencies, large-cap pharmaceuticals, medical technology, diagnostics, generic drug makers, hospital services and biotech clients) on a wide range of transactions including strategic advisory & operational planning mandates, capital raisings, leveraged buyouts, minority stake sales and mergers.

He is a CAIA (Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst) charter holder and founder of AfyaZima Africa Limited (Elpida Cambridge Health), a healthcare consulting and medical device company which won the Cambridge University Entrepreneurship Angel Investor prize.

Hetty van Doorn
Everywhere Services - Humanitarian Response and Logistics Services
General Manager

Staff development, communication and change management expert with over twenty years of experience on managerial and operational level, working for as well the private as humanitarian sector. Since March 2011, General Manager of Everywhere – Humanitarian Response and Logistics Services LDA, a company that provides expert services to organisations working in disaster response and recovery.

In her last job in the humanitarian sector, Hetty developed and implemented with her team a staff development programme covering training strategy, development of e-learning and class room/simulation training, evaluation processes, support systems and project communication. In this function she also acted as project manager and process facilitator to support several organisational units through changes required for professionalizing service provision to internal and external clients. This included strategy development and advice to senior management, collaboration with a private sector partner, process design and creation of required tools & reports, and facilitation of workshops.

The first 15 years of her professional career, Hetty worked for a Commercial Logistics company in the Netherlands, fulfilling several positions in the area of Marketing and Communication. The last two years at this company she was a team member of the Corporate Responsibility team, seconded to a humanitarian organisation. In this role Hetty coordinated the emergency response support provided by the commercial partner, created and managed its Emergency Response Stand-by Team, participated in the set up of the Logistics Emergency Teams and was deployed to the 2005 emergency operations in Indonesia and Pakistan.

Luk Van Wassenhove
INSEAD
Academic Director of the KLU-INSEAD Research Center on Humanitarian Logistics and Professor of Operations Management

Professor Van Wassenhove’s research and teaching are concerned with operational excellence, supply chain management, continual improvement and learning. His recent research focus is on closed-loop supply chains (product take-back and end-of-life issues) and on disaster management (humanitarian logistics). He is the author of many award-winning teaching cases and regularly consults for major international corporations.

In 2005, Professor Van Wassenhove was elected Fellow of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS). In 2006, he was the recipient of the EURO Gold Medal for outstanding academic achievement. In 2009 he was elected Distinguished Fellow of the Manufacturing and Services Operations Management Society (MSOM), and received the Lifetime Achievement Faculty Pioneer Award from the European Academy of Business in Society (EABIS) and the Aspen Institute.

Professor Van Wassenhove is currently the president of the Production and Operations Management Society. In 2011 he was elected member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Sciences.  At INSEAD he holds the Henry Ford Chair of Manufacturing. He also created the INSEAD Social Innovation Centre and acted as academic director until September 2010. At KLU he created and leads the KLU-INSEAD Humanitarian Research Centre.

Laszlo Viranyi
Mercy Corps
Director of Procurement, Administration and Logistics Management

Laszlo Viranyi is the Director of Procurement, Administration and Logistics Management at Mercy Corps since 2004. He was instrumental in setting up Mercy Corps’ global policies in Logistics, Administration and Procurement that ultimately resulted better serving of beneficiaries in 35+ countries.

Based in Bangkok, Thailand he spends most of his time in Mercy Corps’ country programs training local staff and counterparts on Mercy Corps operational policies and practices. Laszlo directly supervises Mercy Corps’ Logistics team that manages the supply chain of aid deliveries across the Globe. Throughout his humanitarian career he was directly involved in a number of emergencies from Bosnia to Kosovo, DRC, Brazzaville Congo, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Iraq, Darfur, Indonesia, North Korea and Haiti.

Prashant Yadav
William Davidson Institute (WDI), University of Michigan
Senior Research Fellow & Director of Health Care Research Initiative

Prashant Yadav is a Senior Research Fellow at the William Davidson Institute (WDI) and Director of the Health Care Research Initiative at WDI.

A leading expert on pharmaceutical and healthcare supply chains in developing countries, Dr. Yadav research explores the functioning of healthcare supply chains using a combination of empirical, analytical and qualitative approaches. Prashant serves as an advisor in the area of pharmaceutical supply chains to the World Bank, World Health Organization, UK Department for International Development, Roll Back Malaria Partnership, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Medicines for Malaria Venture and many other global health organizations. He is the author of many scientific publications and his work on healthcare supply chains has been featured in prominent print and broadcast media.

Prior to coming to the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan, Dr. Yadav was a Professor of Supply Chain Management at the MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program and a Research Affiliate at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics where he led the creation of a high impact research initiative focused on pharmaceutical supply chains in developing countries. From 2008-2010 he was also a visiting scholar at the INSEAD Social Innovation Center.

Dr. Yadav received his Ph.D. from the Manderson Graduate School of Business at the University of Alabama. He received his MBA from the FORE School of Management and his Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.