The Humanitarian Speaker Series events, organized by the MIT CTL Humanitarian Response Lab, are free and open to the MIT community. Refreshments are provided with support from the Center for International Studies.
 

November 10, 2016

Storage Technologies to Reduce Post-Harvest Loss – Panel Discussion

Johnson Kagoye, Programme Officer, World Food Programme Zero Food Loss Initiative
Dieudonné Baributsa, Research Associate Professor, Purdue University, and Team Manager, Purdue Improved Cowpea Storage (PICS)
Jim Bagwell, President, ProvisionGard

March 3, 2016

Supply Chains for Food Assistance in Ethiopia

Paola Corrado, Head of Logistics for Ethiopia
UN World Food Programme

February 18, 2016

Disaster Supply Chains - Replacing & Restoring Capacity

Jeffrey Dorko
Assistant Administrator and Head of Logistics, FEMA

October 27, 2014

Data Driven Operations Research Analyses in the Humanitarian Sector

Lawrence Wein
Jeffrey S. Skoll Professor of Management Science
Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

October 14, 2014

The Use of Cash and Vouchers in Humanitarian Response

Rebecca Vince
Cash and Markets Officer, Global Logistics Cluster
UN World Food Programme

November 25, 2013

Logistics and Innovation at FEMA: Lessons from the Past and a Direction for the Future

Rich Serino
Deputy Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

March 1, 2013

Hurricane Sandy: A Grassroots Perspective

Todd Miner
Director, Friends of Rockaway

November 2, 2012

On the Appropriate Objective Function for Post-Disaster Humanitarian Logistics Models: Social Cost and Deprivation Cost Functions

José Holguín-Veras
William H. Hart Professor and Director of the Center for Infrastructure, Transportation, and the Environment
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

October 11, 2012

Humanitarian Logistics: Experiences from the Field

Ian Heigh
Director, Everywhere Humanitarian Response and Logistics Services

March 14, 2012

A Case Study on Post-disaster Debris Operations and Solving Multi-period Network Capacity Expansion Problems

Özlem Ergun
Professor, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology

October 31, 2011

Dynamic Multi-Period Humanitarian Relief Routing Problem

Irina Dolinskaya
Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Northwestern University

April 5, 2011

Disaster Logistics: How do we Plan, Stockpile, and Coordinate on an Inter-governmental Level?

Alex Markowski
Director of Logistics
New York City Office of Emergency Management

March 9, 2011

Humanitarian Action in a Changing World: an NGO Practitioners View

Jason Phillips
Deputy Vice President, Field Operations
International Rescue Committee

March 1, 2011

Developing Supply Chain Capacity for Emergency Response

Martijn Blansjaar
Head of Logistics and Supply, International Division
Oxfam Great Britain

May 19, 2010

Faster vs Better: Experiences from the Haiti Earthquake Response

Jarrod Goentzel, Executive Director, MIT Supply Chain Management Program
Erica L. Gralla, PhD Candidate, MIT ESD

March 2, 2010

From Preparedness to Response: Humanitarian Logistics

Bernard Chomilier
Head of Logistics Development Unit, World Food Programme

February 24, 2010

Using Climate Science to Build Humanitarian Capacity

Pablo Suarez
Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate Centre
Boston University Dept. of Geography and Environment

January 21, 2010

Military Logistics and Humanitarian Assistance: Case Studies of Tsunami Relief and Georgian/Russian Conflict

Col. William C. Summers
Chief of the European Deployment and Distribution Operations Center (EDDOC), US Air Force