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HUMLOG International Practitioner Fellows

Christine Roussat

Christine Roussat is an Associate Professor of Business Science at the Clermont-Auvergne University (France) and researcher at the CleRMa research centre. Her major fields of interest question the future of logistics: crowd logistics, role and strategy of logistics service providers in the humanitarian chains, sustainable supply chain management. She has published several papers on these topics and is currently working specifically on supply chain management in the Anthropocene society. What are the possible / desirable futures for supply chains and their shareholders? This is what she is trying to explore, using exploratory methodologies that draw on fiction and promote closer links with organisations and civil society.

Recent Publications:

Conceptualizing sharing supply chains – lessons from an exemplary case

Faut-il créer le statut d'« étudiant aidant » pour une meilleure reconnaissance?

Toward a conceptualization of humanitarian service providers

Kristjana Adalgeirsdóttir

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Kristjana Adalgeirsdóttir´s research focus is on cross-sectoral cooperation in humanitarian responses, and shelter&settlements in emergencies. She is a Red Cross international delegate and member of the ShelterBox Emergency Response team, with deployment experiences from a.o. the Philippines, Kenya and Iraq. Kristjana is currently working with the Swiss Red Cross in Ukraine, on supporting shelter responses for the internally displaced population.  Kristjana is a doctoral candidate at Aalto university and has since 2015 been mentoring multidisciplinary master level student teams in PBL (Problem Based Learning) projects, which focus on multidisciplinary humanitarian responses.

Diego Flores

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Diego is currently the General Manager and Head of Mission of the Regional Support Unit Kampala of MSF Switzerland in Uganda. He is an Industrial Engineer with a Master's in Logistics from UAB in Barcelona. He has been working in Humanitarian Operations for more than ten years in countries like Afghanistan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, South Sudan, and Syria and at the global Head Quarters of MSF. His research interests are Systems Dynamics and OR applications for Humanitarian operations, anti-racism, and decolonial practices in the aid sector.

 

Sarah Schiffling

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Sarah is a Senior Lecturer in Supply Chain Management at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. She received her doctorate in Humanitarian Logistics from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. Her research interests include complexity and collaboration in humanitarian logistics, remote rural areas, entrepreneurship and development, and food supply chains. She is currently working on a project on last-mile delivery in conflict zones.

Sarah worked on the Cash and/or Carry project during her stay at HUMLOG, revising a paper on civil-military interactions. With the focus on Ukraine within the project gaining even more prominence in 2022, she collaborated with colleagues on the topics of cash aid for Ukrainian refugees and unsolicited bilateral donations sent in response to intense media coverage of the war. Her visit included many fruitful discussions that will be taken forward into papers and projects. Sarah was also able to share her own experience in working with media outlets as an academic with everyone at HUMLOG in a seminar. She returned to the UK where she works as a Senior Lecturer in Supply Chain Management at Liverpool John Moores University excited to continue working with HUMLOG colleagues.