Distinguished Speaker Series
Event Date

January 31, 2020 at 12:00PM - January 31, 2020 at 1:00PM

Location

MIT Tang Center: E51-325 | Map it

MIT CTL regularly hosts a Humanitarian Speaker Series throughout the academic year. All MIT students, staff, affiliates and alumni are invited to attend.

This talk, hosted by the MIT Humanitarian Supply Chain Lab will feature Ryan McWhorter, Manager, Supply Chain Design and Practice Unit at the Supply Chain Strengthening Centre, UNICEF. Ryan will be speaking to the role that the supply chain plays within the larger institution at UNICEF as well as presenting specific projects that his center is currently involved in. 

His main topics of discussion will be:

  1. Emergency Preparedness and Response
  2. Immunization Supply Chain design
  3. Nutrition Supply Chain design and monitoring
  4. HR aspects of in-country managers

Ryan is also an MIT Supply Chain Management Masters Program alum and will discuss taking lessons learned at MIT into practice. 

UNICEF MIT

Ryan McWhorter

Manager, Supply Chain Design and Practice Unit

Supply Chain Strengthening Centre

UNICEF

Marmorvej 51, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark

rmcwhorter@unicef.org