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
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
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