Michelle Nunn
CARE USA
President and CEO

Michelle Nunn is president and CEO of CARE USA, a global poverty-fighting organization that works in 90 countries and reached more than 72 million people in 2014.  Michelle has spent 25 years in civic and public service, as a social entrepreneur, a nonprofit CEO and a candidate for U.S. Senate in Georgia. She co-founded the volunteer-mobilization organization Hands On Atlanta before engineering its merger with Points of Light, the world’s largest organization dedicated to volunteer service. She served as its CEO from 2007-2013.  The NonProfit Times has named Michelle seven times to its annual “Power and Influence Top 50” list of change agents from the nonprofit sector. Georgia Trend magazine named Michelle one of its “100 Most Influential Georgians,” and the Anti-Defamation League awarded her its 2005 Touch of Liberty. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Virginia, Nunn majored in history with a minor in religion. She received a Kellogg Fellowship to study faith and social justice in more than a dozen countries, from Peru to Namibia to Jordan. Nunn earned her Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where she received the prestigious Public Service Fellowship.

Anne Schuchat, MD (RADM, USPHS) 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Principal Deputy Director

Anne Schuchat, M.D. has been Principal Deputy Director for CDC since September 2015. Dr. Schuchat began her public health career in 1988 when she came to CDC as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer.  She was director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases from 2006-2015. Other CDC leadership posts include: acting director of the National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID) and the Center for Global Health; chief of the Respiratory Diseases Branch and Chief Health Officer for CDC’s 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza response.  Schuchat was the initial medical director of ABCs - the Active Bacterial Core surveillance of the Emerging Infections Program Network and spearheaded prevention of newborn infection from group B streptococcal disease in the 1990s. She also served as CDC’s interim deputy director for Science and Program in early 2009. She was promoted to Rear Admiral in the United States Public Health Service in 2006 and earned a second star in 2010.  Schuchat was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2008.

Globally, Dr. Schuchat has worked in West Africa on meningitis, pneumonia, and Ebola vaccine trials, in South Africa on surveillance and prevention projects, and in China on Beijing’s SARS emergency response. She has authored or co-authored more than 230 scientific articles, book chapters, and reviews. Her contributions have been recognized by receipt of the USPHS Meritorious Service Medal, the American Public Health Association’s Maternal and Child Health Young Investigator Award, the USPHS Physician Research Officer of the Year, and an Honorary Doctorate in Science from Swarthmore College. Dr. Schuchat graduated with highest honors from Swarthmore College and with honors from Dartmouth Medical School and completed her residency and Chief residency in Internal Medicine at NYU’s Manhattan VA Hospital.

G.P. "Bud" Peterson, PhD 
Georgia Institute of Technology
President

G.P. “Bud” Peterson, PhD, is the eleventh president of the Georgia Institute of Technology. In this capacity he oversees a top-ten public research university with more than 21,500 students and research expenditures of more than $730 million. Throughout his career, he has played an active role in helping to establish the national education and research agendas, serving on numerous industry, government, and academic task forces and committees. A distinguished scientist, Dr. Peterson was selected in 2008 by President George W. Bush to serve on the National Science Board through 2014. The Board oversees the National Science Foundation (NSF) and advises the President and Congress on national policy related to science and engineering research and education.

Dr. Peterson earned undergraduate degrees in mechanical engineering and mathematics as well as a master’s degree in engineering from Kansas State University. He earned his doctoral degree in mechanical engineering at Texas A&M University. He and his wife, Val, have four adult children, two of whom are Georgia Tech graduates. 

Sanjay Gupta, MD 
CNN
Chief Medical Correspondent

Dr. Sanjay Gupta is the multiple Emmy® award winning chief medical correspondent for CNN. Gupta, a practicing neurosurgeon, plays an integral role in CNN’s reporting on health and medical news for all of CNN’s shows domestically and internationally, and contributes to CNN.com. His medical training and public health policy experience distinguishes his reporting from war zones and natural disasters, as well as on a range of medical and scientific topics, including the recent Ebola outbreak, brain injury, disaster recovery, health care reform, fitness, military medicine, and HIV/AIDS. Additionally, Dr. Gupta is the host of Vital Signs for CNN International and Accent Health for Turner Private Networks.

In 2011, Gupta reported from earthquake- and tsunami-ravaged Japan, adding clarity and context to the human impact and radiation concerns. In 2010, Gupta reported on the devastating earthquake in Haiti, for which he was awarded two Emmy®s. His distinctive reporting in 2010 also included live coverage on the unprecedented flooding in Pakistan. Gupta joined CNN in the summer of 2001. He reported from New York following the attacks on the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001. In 2003, he embedded with the U.S. Navy’s “Devil Docs” medical unit, reporting from Iraq and Kuwait as the unit traveled to Baghdad. He provided live coverage of the first operation performed during the war, and performed life-saving brain surgery five times himself in a desert operating room. In 2009, he embedded with the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne, accompanying them on life-saving rescue missions in Afghanistan.

Gupta contributed to the network’s 2010 Peabody Award-winning coverage of the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. In 2006, Gupta contributed to CNN’s Peabody Award-winning coverage of Hurricane Katrina, revealing that official reports that Charity Hospital in New Orleans had been evacuated were incorrect. His “Charity Hospital” coverage for Anderson Cooper 360° resulted in his 2006 News & Documentary Emmy® for Outstanding Feature Story. In 2004, Gupta was sent to Sri Lanka to cover the tsunami disaster that took more than 155,000 lives in Southeast Asia, contributing to the 2005 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award for CNN. In 2015, Gupta was again awarded the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award for his enterprise reporting showcased in the two hour primetime documentary “WEED.”

Gupta’s passion for inspiring Americans to lead healthier, more active lives led him to launch “Fit Nation,” CNN’s multi-platform anti-obesity initiative. In 2009, “Fit Nation” followed the progress of Gupta and six CNN viewers as they inspired each other while training for a triathlon. The program is now in its sixth year. In addition to his work for CNN, Gupta is a member of the staff and faculty at the Emory University School of Medicine. He is associate chief of neurosurgery at Grady Memorial Hospital and regularly performs surgery at Emory University and Grady hospitals. He holds memberships in the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Congress of Neurological Surgeons and the Council on Foreign Relations. He serves as a diplomate of the American Board of Neurosurgery and a certified medical investigator.

Before joining CNN, Gupta completed neurosurgical fellowship at the Semmes Murphey Clinic and residency at the University of Michigan Medical Center. In 1997, he was selected as a White House Fellow, serving as a special advisor to First Lady Hillary Clinton. Gupta contributes to the CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes. He is the author of three New York Times best-selling books, Chasing Life (2007), Cheating Death (2009) and Monday Mornings (2012).

In 2003, Gupta was named one of PEOPLE magazine’s “Sexiest Men Alive” and a “pop culture icon” by USA Today. That same year, he also won the Humanitarian Award from the National Press Photographers Association. In 2004, the Atlanta Press Club named him “Journalist of the Year” and in 2009, he won both the first Health Communications Achievement Award from the American Medical Association’s Medical Communications Conference and the Mickey Leland Humanitarian Award from the National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC). In 2010, Gupta was honored by John F. Kennedy University with its Laureate Award for leaders in health and wellness. 2011, Forbes magazine named him as one of the “Ten Most Influential Celebrities.” Gupta received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and a doctorate of medicine from the University of Michigan Medical School.

Elizabeth Ashbourne
Partnership for Quality Medical Donations
Executive Director

Prior to joining PQMD as Executive Director, Elizabeth (EJ) Ashbourne was most recently the Managing Partner for EJA Consulting, a small private firm specializing in strategic planning, fundraising, international development and joint venture support, mission driven event management, and all aspects of non-profit turn-around. Prior to that, EJ spent 17 years at the World Bank in a number of senior level positions, in the areas of private sector partnerships, global public health, infectious disease, and health management information systems.  At the World Bank, she also spent many years working closely on issues specific to engaging the private sector in the fight against HIV/AIDS as the focal point for private sector partnerships with the World Bank’s Africa Region HIV/AIDS programs. She has also worked for World Learning as a Country Director, overseeing a wide range of USAID capacity building programs in Eastern Europe and served as senior coordinator for international cooperative education programs at American University among other positions. EJ holds an MA in International Education, with an emphasis on Organizational Management from American University in Washington, DC and a BSc in Communications and History from Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY.

John Beale
VillageReach
Director, Private Sector Engagement

John is responsible for creating opportunities for VillageReach’s social business development capability in support of the organization’s health system strengthening field programs. He also oversees VillageReach’s marketing and fundraising strategy. John has worked for more than 20 years in business development, marketing, and communications both in the US, Europe and throughout Asia. Prior to joining VillageReach, John worked for eight years in the wireless industry, first at the wireless technology company, QUALCOMM, as vice president of marketing for its semiconductor division, and then as head of marketing with the venture capital-backed wireless software company, Volantis Systems, based in the UK. In these roles he has developed extensive experience in defining market opportunities for businesses and their products and services, designing and executing go-to-market programs to capture the opportunities, and soliciting investor support for these ventures.

Jill Bossi
Thrive GPO, Inc.
CEO & Founder

Jill Bossi, C.P.M. is the Founder & CEO of Thrive GPO.  Jill has over 30 years of supply management experience and previously served as the Chief Procurement Officer for the American Red Cross.

Michael Brown, PhD 
One World One Way, Inc.
President

Dr. Michael Brown is the president of the non-profit think-tank, One World One Way, Inc. [O.W.O.W. Foundation] located in Stockbridge, Georgia. Dr. Brown is a former United States Air Force officer with experience as an intelligence operations specialist, nuclear weapons officer and special assistant to several commanders. He possesses a Ph.D. in emergency management, a Masters in Humanities with a specialization in Emergency Management, a B.S. in Criminal Justice Administration and A.S. in Intelligence and Imagery Analysis. His non-profit policy institute conducts threat hazard identification and risk assessments (THIRAs) and reviews policies related to the emergency management (EM), and advises on policy related to disaster risk management (DRM) for severely at risk populations. His special interest is theoretical and conceptual perceptions of risk communications experienced by the underprivileged and vulnerable populations. His focus is on how to strengthen coping capacities and resilience of marginalized populations through disaster management leadership, by decreasing vulnerabilities and proactively managing risk that threaten anomic and fractured social structures.

Keith Chibafa
World Vision International
Business Development lead for Last Mile Mobile Solutions (LMMS)

Keith Chibafa brings over 15 years of international management experience combined with an IT and business background in both the private and humanitarian sectors. Keith is responsible for overseeing World Vision International’s (WVI) efforts to collaborate with key local and international external entities interested in the implementation and execution of WVI’s Last Mile Mobile Solutions (LMMS) technology. As the Business Development lead for LMMS, Keith has overseen the deployment footprint of LMMS grow to over 25 countries and has seen LMMS adoption by at least 10 humanitarian agencies which, in addition to World Vision, include Oxfam GB, Medair, UNICEF, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Norwegian Refugee Council. He has a keen interest in electronic payments and has served as an internal advisor to several World Vision country offices on epayments in Cash programming. Keith has a Masters in Business Leadership as well as a Bachelors in Computer Science.

Chad Davenport
Imperial Health/Partnership for Supply Chain Management (PfSCM)
Chief Information Officer

Chad has over 15 years of experience executing public health program evaluations, managing data systems and analytics, and implementing technology solutions, with a focus on HIV/AIDS and malaria prevention and treatment programs. Chad serves as the Partnership for Supply Chain Management’s (PFSCM) Chief Information Officer. He joined PFSCM in October 2013 as the Manager of the Performance Management Unit. In that role, he led a series of initiatives to streamline performance reporting, strengthen data analysis, and promote proactive management of PFSCM operational activities. As CIO, Chad has developed PFSCM’s strategy to guiding investments in new technology solutions to create value for our clients, and oversees the design and deployment of those solutions. Chad holds a Bachelor’s of Science from Duke University, and a Master’s of Science in Public Health from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Clinton de Souza
Imperial Health Sciences
Director of Public Health

Clinton is currently the Director of Imperial Health Sciences North America, where he has developed and driven the company strategy to position Imperial as the premier private sector supply chain company with the Global Public Health community. His career started in 1994 in sales at RTT, where he achieved significant milestones; rising from a junior sales developer to Sales Director within 8 years and has an MBA. Clinton has a proven track record in business development, client management and retention. During his 21 year career in Supply Chain and Logistics he has held several Exco positions over the past 13 years where he has directly contributed to revenue and profit performance of the company. Clinton has held direct client relationships with the following major South African Pharma companies: Aspen, GlaxoSmithKline, Astra Zeneca, Bayer, Janssen, Novartis and Pfizer, also managing one of RTT Solutions’ largest clients at the time, PHD. 

Olivier Defawe, PhD 
Village Reach
Senior Manager, Health Systems

Olivier leads the design, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of health system programs, with particular focus on Francophile countries (e.g. Guinea and Democratic Republic of Congo). He supports the operations of existing health system programs as well as the development and implementation of new programs. Prior to VillageReach, Olivier was with ITECH, managing health information (e.g. EMR, LIMS) and laboratory systems implementation in the Haiti and Côte d’Ivoire teams.  Prior, Olivier was the Operations Manager for the HIV Vaccine Trials Network laboratory program at Fred Hutchinson CancerResearch Center.   Olivier holds a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Liège in Belgium, completing his post-doctorate work at the University of Washington.

Bob Emrey
USAID, Bureau for Global Health
Lead Health Systems Specialist, Office of Health Systems

Bob Emrey is Lead Health Systems Specialist in the USAID Office of Health Systems.  Since joining USAID in 1989, he led global resource center projects on health financing and governance and later served as Chief of the Health Systems Division.  He has advised health agencies and donors on health systems strengthening in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.  He established USAID’s program of support to country-led production and use of national health accounts (NHA) data and was on the Executive Board of the Health Metrics Network.  During the recent Ebola crisis in West Africa, he guided USAID’s assistance to rebuilding health systems in the affected countries.  Earlier, at the Association of University Programs in Health Administration he led a project to develop metrics to assess health program management.  He started his career in public health in the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service in the Indian Health Service. He has a BA in economics from Occidental College, MBA from UCLA, MPH from UC Berkeley, and completed all but dissertation for a PhD in public administration from the UC Irvine.

Kevin Etter
UPS / Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance
UPS Loaned Executive

Built on work over three decades with UPS (United Parcel Service), Kevin is an internationally recognized thought leader in the field of logistics and supply chain service innovation and a strong voice and advocate in the world of community service and corporate philanthropy, active both at home, in Europe and at UPS. In addition to his role in strategy for the UPS Foundation Humanitarian Relief and Resilience Program, the UPS Foundation has seconded him as an executive on loan to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance in Geneva to advise, consult, and develop solutions to support Gavi’s Supply Chain Strategy. Kevin is also pioneering innovative models for public private partnerships with Gavi, UN organizations and other International NGO’s. Kevin recently presented a TED Talk entitled “I am the Donation” that features his work with Gavi and highlights the opportunity that our business communities have in moving beyond check book philanthropy to impact real change in our world today.

James Fitzgerald, PhD 
Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO)
Director, Health Systems and Services

James Fitzgerald, a national of Ireland, obtained his Bachelor in Science, Pharmacy and Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Dublin, Ireland. Commencing his career in the pharmaceutical industry, he later joined the Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) where he has worked as advisor in policy issues relating to access and regulation of medicines and health technologies in Haiti, Brazil and PAHO headquarters, Washington DC USA. He assumed coordination of the PAHO regional work program in the Americas in Medicines and Health Technologies (2008 – 2013). In 2014, he was appointed Director of Health Systems and Services, PAHO/WHO, overseeing the development of the regional Universal Health Coverage agenda with specific focus on health policy and governance, health systems and services organization, human resources for health, financing in health, and access to medicines and health technologies. He is the author and coauthor of numerous articles, and is a member of a number of professional societies and advisory groups associated with his profession and area of work.

Christine Galavotti, PhD 
CARE USA
Senior Director for Sexual, Reproductive and Maternal Health

Dr. Christine Galavotti is Senior Director for Sexual, Reproductive and Maternal Health at CARE USA. As one of CARE’s four top priorities, her team promotes global learning, innovation and impact on sexual, reproductive and maternal health. Prior to joining CARE in 2010, Dr. Galavotti was with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where she developed, managed and evaluated social and behavioral interventions to promote reproductive health and HIV prevention in both US and international settings. She served on the Technical Advisory Panel for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Avahan India AIDS Initiative (2003-2013). She has authored or coauthored over 50 publications and received CDC’s 2009 Award for Excellence in Behavioral and Social Science Research in Public Health. Christine Galavotti earned her B.A. in English from Amherst College, and her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin.

Svein Hapnes
United Nation Refugee Agency Greece (UNHCR)
Senior Supply Officer/Head of Supply Chain

Svein has been the Supply Chain Manager for the challenging UNHCR Greece operations, supporting around 50,000 refugees in over 40 mainland and island locations since January 2016. Previously, he served as the Regional Supply Chain Coordinator as a 5-month deployment for the Syria crises, based in Jordan in 2012-13. He began his career as a Cadet Officer in the Army Transport Corps of the Norwegian Army where he served for 20 years. He later held positions as Instructor/Developer at the Army Logistics School, Chief Operations Officer in the Host Nation Support Battalion for US Marines in Norway, and Movement Control Officer in the Chief Headquarters of Defense, Norway. Svein worked in the commercial logistics industry at NSB Gods Headquarters (rail freight) Nor-Cargo (now Bring Logistics). He has held positions at the UN such as Emergency Logistics Coordinator at the UNHCR Headquarters in Geneva and Global Shipping Manager at UNICEF, UNHCR Senior Business Analyst for Global Supply Chain, and he has been deeply involved in the strategic shift of the Supply Chain Management function in UNHCR, including developing the change strategy, and the Global Fleet Management and ERP-system Upgrade projects as well as inter-agency cooperation with external partners as INSEAD, Price Waterhouse Coopers, IKEA and the Fritz Institute. Svein holds an MSc in Logistics, Transport and Distribution (Management) at University of Westminster and an MSc in (Industrial) Logistics at Molde University College and he earned a degree in Transport Economics from the Army Logistics School.

John Harris
Ministry of Health of Liberia
Director, Supply Chain Management Unit, and Acting Director National Drug Stores

John Harris is currently the Supply Chain Management Unit Director for the Ministry of Health (MoH) of Liberia and Acting Director of the National Drug Store. He oversees the management of the entire public health supply chain system and logistics management information system as well as procurement for routine healthcare products and as well as those specialized for Ebola treatment. During the 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic, Mr. Harris was the primary MOH supply chain point-of-contact—working directly with WFP, the Logistics Cluster, and other partners to forecast and deliver critical infection and prevention control supplies to Ebola Treatment Units around the country. Since Dec. 2015, he has been the Acting Managing Director for the Liberia MoH National Drug Service (NDS), including overseeing the Warehouse Management System for Liberia. John also served in the MoH for Montserrado County in Pharmacy Services at the Central Medical Store (CMS) and as a Pharmacy and Supply Chain manager for the Redemption Hospital in Bushrod Island. He is a Board member of the People that Deliver (PtD) Initiative, and has previously worked as a consultant for Management Sciences for Health (MSH). John earned a B.Pharm. (Honors) Degree in Pharmacy from the School of Pharmacy University of Liberia in 2006 (where he is currently an instructor) and an MSc. in Pharmaceutical Management from the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 2012.

Steven Harsono
William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan
Senior Advisor, Healthcare Supply Chain

Steven Harsono is Senior Advisor and Senior Manager of Supply Chain for the Healthcare Initiative at the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan. He provides leadership and technical guidance for WDI’s work in improving healthcare supply chain performance in emerging economies. Over the last 10 years, Harsono has worked across the public and private sectors in over 20 countries.  He draws on his diverse experiences working with the McDonald’s Corporation on the integration of its global supply chain, pharmaceutical companies improving pricing and access in emerging markets, and Ministries of Health seeking to transform their supply chains.  Prior to joining WDI, he worked for Axios International, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, and HAVI Global Solutions. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in economics and international relations from Wheaton College in Illinois and is fluent in French and Bahasa Indonesia.

Wolfgang Herbinger
UN World Food Programme (WFP)
Senior Advisor on Pandemic Supply Chain

Wolfgang Herbinger is the Senior Advisor on Pandemic Supply Chain for WFP since November 2015. The Public-Private Initiative for a Supply Chain Network for Pandemic Preparedness and Response was initiated as follow-up to discussions at the 2015 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The initiative presently includes UN agencies such as WHO and WFP, the World Bank, the University of Minnesota as well as private sector companies such as UPS, Henry Schein, Cardinal Health and NEC. From 2011 to 2015 he served as WFP Director of Logistics. Under his leadership 3,000 staff moved annually some three million tons of humanitarian cargo by land, sea and air. He was also responsible for the UN’s Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS), UN’s Humanitarian Response Depots (UNHRD) and leadership for the inter-agency Logistics Cluster. From 2008 to 2011 he was the WFP Country Director in Pakistan. During this period WFP assisted millions of vulnerable people affected by internal displacement crisis and the historical flood in 2010 that affected nearly 20 million people. He joined WFP as Associate Expert in 1985. Later assignments included work as Programme Officer, Policy Analyst, Food Security Adviser and Chief for Emergency Needs Assessments both in WFP’s Headquarters in Rome as well as in country and regional duty stations, i.e. Ethiopia and India. Wolfgang studied economics in Germany and Austria, completing with a Masters Degree from the Free University in Berlin and an Advanced Degree in Rural Development from the Technical University in Berlin.

Brittany Hume Charm
Zipline International
Business Development

Brittany leads global business development at Zipline International, a Silicon Valley-based startup that designs, manufactures, and operates drones to deliver essential medical products to health facilities in areas with challenging terrain and road infrastructure. In this role, she develops partnerships with ministries of health and other global health stakeholders to extend Zipline’s services to new communities and patients. Prior to Zipline, Brittany was a Principal at the Skoll Foundation, where she led the Foundation’s investments in social entrepreneurs working to transform global health delivery and other pressing problems. Prior to Skoll, she worked at the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, a venture philanthropy firm that makes highly engaged investments in scalable social enterprises, and Johnson & Johnson, where she managed the corporation’s global portfolio of HIV/AIDS philanthropic investments. Brittany began her career at McKinsey & Company, where she provided strategic and analytical support to Fortune 100 companies across a variety of industries as well as organizations in the social sector, including foundations, multilaterals, and large nonprofits.

Steven Jensen, PhD 
American Red Cross
Member, Preparedness and Disaster Health Subcouncil, Scientific Advisory Council

Dr. Steven Jensen is an advisor in disaster risk management with thirty-five years international experience and a strong grasp of global trends for disaster risk reduction. His focus on emerging patterns of disaster places Dr. Jensen in a position to advance this emerging field.  A formative experience for Dr. Jensen was managing refugee camps for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Southeast Asia. Subsequent experience includes firefighting, emergency management, and academic practices in both New Zealand and the United States. Field work has taken him to East Africa, the Philippines, China, Japan, Mexico and El Salvador. Dr. Jensen received his BA in International Studies from Whitworth University, a MS in Emergency Management from California State University and a Doctorate in Policy from the University of Southern California. His primary research is at the intersection of globalization, hazards, and risk.

Julie Jenson
Pfizer, Inc.
Director Social Investments, Corporate Responsibility

Julie Jenson is Director Social Investments in Pfizer’s Corporate Responsibility organization. She is responsible for Pfizer’s flagship donation programs, including the International Trachoma Initiative.  Julie partners with Pfizer business units and external stakeholders to lead the companies emergency relief and targeted international product donations. Prior to Corporate Responsibility, Julie spent 10 years in Pfizer manufacturing and supply where she has experience in both Pfizer and external contract manufacturing and supply chain management.  Julie served as a Pfizer emergency Global Health Fellow in Indonesia in 2005. Julie represents Pfizer on the Board of the Partnership for Quality Medical Donations (PQMD) and chairs the Nominations & Governance Committee.  She also represents Pfizer on the Uniting to Combat NTD Stakeholders Working Group and on the NTD Supply Chain Forum. Julie holds a Master’s in Public Health from Columbia University and BA in Supply Chain Management from Michigan State University. She is certified in Supply, Production, and Inventory Management (CSCP and CPIM) by the Association for Operations Management (APICS).

Carla Johnson
International Trachoma Initiative
Supply Chain Manager

Carla Johnson is Supply Chain Manager at the International Trachoma Initiative (ITI) and sets the global strategic direction for the supply chain of Zithromax®. The International Trachoma Initiative manages the generous donation made by Pfizer Inc and coordinates country applications and forecasts to ensure good resource stewardship. In this role, she provides oversight of day-to-day management of the Zithromax® supply chain and is responsible for supporting the mission of ITI by providing technical expertise in supply chain systems, inventory management, and product management. Carla brings to her position sixteen years of experience in supply chain management; including materials requirements planning, inventory management, import/export, warehousing, transportation & logistics, and distribution. Before joining The Task Force, Carla worked as Senior Technical Advisor – Inventory Management at CARE USA, where she guided and directed global inventory operations for long-term development programs and humanitarian relief efforts. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial & Systems Engineering along with certificates in Health & Humanitarian Logistics and Organizational Psychology from Georgia Tech, and she recently completed Executive MBA studies at Emory University’s Goizueta School of Business. 

Jason Kass
Toilets for People
President

Jason Kass is Founder and President of Toilets for People (TfP), a social business that designs and manufactures composting toilets and trains NGO partners in the developing world how to install and maintain them.  He is an environmental engineer by trade with 15 years experience in water, sanitation and environmental cleanup and has been applying his skills to international development since 2006. 

Michael Krautmann
William Davidson Institute
Senior Research Associate

Michael Krautmann is a Senior Research Associate for the Healthcare Initiative. His work focuses on forecasting, model building and quantitative analysis to improve global health supply chain dynamics. Prior to joining WDI, he worked for Lean Care Solutions, a U.S.- and Singapore-based healthcare technology startup. He also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Zambia, where he helped evaluate clinic-level supply chain practices for a United States Agency for International Development-funded health project. Krautmann has Master and Bachelor’s degrees in industrial and operations engineering from the University of Michigan.

Alexandre Liege
Mastercard
VP, International Development

Alexandre Liege is a Vice President of International Development at MasterCard. He builds commercial partnerships to develop and implement services that improve the efficiency and transparency of aid transfers to the victims of disasters and conflicts. In Asia, Latin America and Africa, Alexandre has coordinated the launch of payment services. Alexandre is a graduate of ESCE Paris and an Executive MBA candidate at Columbia University.

Maeve Magner
Independent Consultant
SCM Advisor

With over 29 years’ experience, Maeve has accumulated a wealth of international experience, in both public and private sectors. She has worked across different Supply Chain functional areas for multi-national organizations including Dell, Tippingpoint and Capgemini and in the development space for CHAI. More recently Maeve was the CEO for the largest privately owned 3PL in Africa (RTT TransAfrica now Imperial Health Sciences) before returning to a role as an independent advisor working with global donors advocating for and designing interventions for better supply chain management in developing countries and the inclusion of the private sector in solving the supply chain challenges.

Ann Matz-Tirado
AbbVie
Program Manager, Corporate Responsibility

Ann Matz-Tirado serves as Program Manager for AbbVie’s Corporate Responsibility group and the AbbVie Foundation. Ann oversees the company’s disaster relief efforts and product donations program. She also manages AbbVie’s Foundation programs and partners that focus on HIV/AIDS, NTDs, HCV and Oncology. In addition to her work with AbbVie, Ann works for Abbott helping to manage their product donations program and disaster relief efforts.
Ann also manages Abbott Fund programs that address diabetes, maternal and) for child health, and nutrition needs. She has been with Abbott (and now AbbVie 12 years. Before joining the two companies, Ann assisted in the implementation and launch of the Step Forward Program. This is an international AIDS orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) assistance program established, administered and financially supported by the Abbott Fund (now a part of the AbbVie Foundation), targeting developing countries such as India, Burkina Faso, Tanzania, Malawi, Kenya and Romania. Ann holds a masters degree in Human Relations from the University of Oklahoma and a BA from Towson University. For now, Ann resides in San Antonio, TX until her husband’s next Air Force assignment moves them elsewhere!

Mark McCaul
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)
Supply Chain Head

Mark McCaul works as Supply Chain Officer for Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) ensuring the quality and effectiveness of the Supply Chain for the HIV/TB programs and services of MSF, Operational Centre Brussels.  He earned a Master’s degree in International Relations, where he specialized in development policies and completed further post-graduate training in International Supply Chain Management. Working with MSF has taken him to Central African Republic, India, Malawi, Mozambique, Ukraine, South Africa and Zimbabwe; in projects ranging from primary health care supervision to hospital start-up work, and from conflict zones to refugee camps.

John McGhie
Crown Agents & International Procurement Agents - CAIPA
Strategic & Business Development Director

John is currently responsible for strategic advice to the CAIPA board as for future growth paths aligned to company objectives by insight into future development & growth globally. Prior to his role at CAPIA, from 2014-16, John was the Supply Chain Demand Manager at the Department for International Development (DFID) in the UK, leading the Ebola Response Team in Sierra Leone. He managed the supply chain operations supporting the Ebola Treatment Centres, and 200+ Community Care Centres in Sierra Leone, co-ordinating of 23 partners and integrating the private sector lead delivery model to support the set-up. John worked with WHO, UNICEF, and MSF to standardise material specification in order to coordinate demand sources, assist in global demand management, and secure supply lines. Before his work with DFID, John worked in purchasing for the British Red Cross, the Renfrewshire Council and with the BIP Solutions Ltd firm in cross-sector partnerships and business development. John has received international awards for the work delivered on addressing this global response in West Africa, including the personal award of Her Majesty’s Ebola medal for service in West Africa awarded by the UK Prime Minister, David Cameron at 10 Downing St in 2015.

Jim McGowan
American Red Cross
Director, Information Management & Situational Awareness

Jim McGowan is the Director of Information Management and Situational Awareness for the American Red Cross, North Central Division. Headquartered in Chicago, he has assembled a team of more than 50 volunteers and staff who manage data to tell the up-to-the-minute story of Red Cross activities and programs. During times of disaster, he deploys as a member of the Division’s Response Management Team. He has championed the use of open-source and free applications throughout the organization and is an avid supporter of Chicago’s burgeoning ‘civic tech’ community. Before joining the Red Cross in 2011, Jim practiced architecture for twenty-five years. He lives in the Hyde Park neighborhood with his daughter, Rosie.

Tom Millar
Sightsavers
Operations Director

Tom Millar is the Operations Director for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) in Sightsavers, an international organization who are working in over 30 countries to eliminate avoidable blindness and support people with visual impairments to live independently.  Tom is responsible for managing a large portfolio of major NTD programs that support countries to deliver life changing treatments to over 100 million people in their communities every year.  He brings a wealth of program management experience gained in the private sector.

Kehinde Onasanya
Crown Agents
Team Leader, Northern Nigeria Integrated NTD (UNITED) Programme in Nigeria

Kenny Onasanya is the Team Leader for Crown Agents on the Northern Nigeria Integrated NTD  (UNITED) Programme in Nigeria. Crown Agents is responsible for managing the procurement, distribution, capacity building for supply chain management on the collaborative project led by Sightsavers. The UNITED Program achieved A rating for two consecutive phases of the project, effective delivery of over 35 million targets and being well positioned to meet the 124 million target by Oct 2016 and an expansion of scope of work from three to five states during the Phase II of project delivery. He is a Pharmacist and certified procurement professional with over  10 years of experience in the international development sector. He earned his B. Pharm. from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, and a Master’s degree in Procurement and supply chain management (with distinction) from the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK, in 2012. In May 2015, he completed the certificate program hosted by Georgia Tech in Health & Humanitarian Supply Chain Management.  He is a certified member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT UK), Supply Chain Management Professional (SCMP, Canada) and Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS UK).

Benjamin Ongeri
Management Sciences for Health
Senior Technical Manager

Benjamin is a Senior Technical Manager with the Supply Chain Management System (SCMS) project based in Namibia since 2008. He is a pharmacist with over 10 years’ experience in pharmaceutical supply management. He primarily provides supply chain system strengthening technical assistance and capacity building to MoHSS counterparts at the national level focused on improving systems and procedures for quantification, budgeting, procurement planning, and inventory management of antiretroviral medicines and related HIV/AIDS commodities. He has been instrumental in establishing a routine LMIS for ARVs, with quarterly feedback to ART sites, which has contributed to universal availability of ART in Namibia. Benjamin loves to work with data and is especially adept at manipulating large data arrays in Microsoft Excel^®. His major interests are in supply chain data visibility and using key indicators to drive supply chain performance. Prior to joining SCMS, Benjamin worked for about 5 years at the Mater Hospital, a 140-bed private hospital in Nairobi. Benjamin holds a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Nairobi and a Master of Logistics & Supply Chain Management degree from the Namibia University of Science and Technology. 

Andrew Parkes
Malaria Consortium, UK
Global Operations Manager

Andrew has worked in logistics and supply chain roles in various organisations over the past 10 years, including with GOAL, Merlin, Save the Children and Malaria Consortium. In this time Andrew has supported multi-sector operations in countries including South Sudan, DRC, Haiti, Central African Republic, Libya and Pakistan, and has led international logistics and procurement in emergency responses including in the Philippines and Syria. In his time, Andrew has also supported emergency health programming including with the setup of emergency field hospitals in South Sudan, Haiti and more recently for the Ebola response in Sierra Leone. Andrew has just moved from 4 years as Head of Logistics for Save the Children International, where he led several strategic supply chain projects to improve operational delivery, to his new role as Global Operations Manager in Malaria Consortium

Helen Smith Price
The Coca-Cola Foundation
President; VP Global Community Affairs, The Coca-Cola Company

Helen Smith Price was appointed as President of The Coca-Cola Foundation and Vice President of Global Community Affairs for The Coca-Cola Company in April 2016. Price joined The Coca-Cola Company in 1993 as Corporate External Affairs Director and since 2001 has served as Assistant Vice President and Group Director of Global Community Affairs and Executive Director of The Coca-Cola Foundation. In this role she manages the day-to-day operations of the global Foundation including, grant making, financial requirements, and regulatory compliance for domestic and international philanthropy. Prior to joining the Company, Price held roles in the tax and accounting departments at BellSouth Corporation and Arthur Andersen & Co. She was licensed as a certified public accountant in the state of Georgia, and has a Master of Business Administration degree from Clark Atlanta University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Spelman College. As a native of Atlanta, Price’s commitment to the community is extensive. She currently serves on the boards of the Woodruff Arts Center’s Alliance Theatre, The Villages at Carver Family YMCA and the Association of Corporate Contributions Professionals. She also serves on the Nominations Committee for the United Way of Greater Atlanta and the Corporate Contributions Council of The Conference Board.

Wendy Prosser
VillageReach
Senior Manager- Health Systems

As Program Manager, Wendy Prosser is responsible for the design, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of health system programs for VillageReach in Mozambique. Efforts in Mozambique seek to streamline vaccine logistics with an improved logistics management information system and transport services. Wendy has over a decade of global health experience in program development and management, research and analysis, capacity building, and behavior change communications. This experience has taken her to Mozambique, Malawi, Angola, Kenya, and South Africa in various public health settings, starting with Peace Corps in Cape Verde. Wendy holds a MPA in International Development and Global Health from the University of Washington.

Neelima Ramaraju
LLamasoft
Director, Global Impact Initiatives

Neelima P. Ramaraju is the Director of Global Impact Team at LLamasoft, Inc., a global leader in supply chain design software and services. In this role, she works closely with public and private partner organizations, such as USAID, John Snow, Inc., The World Bank, the World Health Organization, applying supply chain best practices to global development. She has been involved in projects in Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Haiti, among others, focused on restructuring public health supply chains to improve customer service and reduce costs. She has overseen several commercial and NGO supply chain design projects, and has helped many organizations better-understand and improve their supply chains. In addition to the work in global development, she works on developing LLamasoft’s supply chain risk and resiliency strategy. Prior to her time at LLamasoft, Neelima worked as a healthcare consultant with a focus on managed care payment review for domestic hospital and hospital systems. She has a BS in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and an MBA and MS in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Diane Reynolds
Imperial Health Sciences
General Manager, Public Health

Diane has fourteen years of public health experience, leading programs that have achieved substantial health transformative outcomes. She is a passionate leader who sets high performance expectations and executes to drive operational excellence. Before moving to Washington DC she managed the PEPFAR $110-million bridging fund program in support of the National Department of Health’s country wide scale-up of antiretroviral medicines in South Africa.  Today over 3 million patients are on treatment. At IBM South Africa, in the prior 12 years, she led the healthcare informatics sector specializing in patient health information system implementation for more than 60 sites in South Africa; and in Cyprus. Leveraging her extensive experience in technical support and multi country program oversight related to supply chain management strengthening, Diane is leading the IHS Control Tower deployment.  Imperial is working with partners to support ministries achieve improved supply chain visibility and analytical capabilities to support continuous improvement initiatives. Diane is currently the Public Health sales and project services manager for the Public Health consulting division of Imperial Health Sciences North America.

Joe Ruiz
The UPS Foundation
Director, Humanitarian Relief & Resilience Program

Joe began his UPS career in 1988 and has served in various district, region and corporate assignments within the organization before joining The UPS Foundation in 2007. He now oversees the UPS Humanitarian Relief & Resilience Program, coordinating The UPS Foundation’s $10 million annual investment in program support, logistical expertise, skilled volunteers, and capacity building efforts to enhance community resilience and strengthen preparedness, response and recovery capabilities of UPS partner agencies. In this role, he oversees partner relationships, program development and operational execution of the UPS Relief Link Program to enhance the supply chain capabilities of humanitarian relief partners. He also manages UPS’s engagement in the Logistics Emergency Team (LET) loaned executive program for the U.N. World Food Programme and Global Logistics Cluster, to prepare and deploy logistics experts immediately following natural disasters. He also coordinates UPS’s in-kind support, which included more than 263 shipments across 43 countries in 2014. 

Ambassador Charles Shapiro
World Affairs Council of Atlanta
President

Ambassador Charles Shapiro became the president of the World Affairs Council in September 2014. At the United States Department of State, Shapiro held numerous senior positions including Ambassador to Venezuela and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Western Hemisphere. Shapiro’s other foreign postings include Chile, El Salvador, Trinidad and Tobago and Denmark, in addition to a variety of Washington assignments including Coordinator for Cuban Affairs. From 2011-2013 Shapiro was the president of the Institute of the Americas, a think tank at the University of California San Diego. There he led two policy trips to Cuba. Shapiro has worked with governments, businesses, and development agencies to increase access to credit for marginalized groups, foster entrepreneurship and small business growth, and encourage job creation to reduce poverty and strengthen stable democracies.

Habibat Sheidu
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
LMIS Coordinator

Habibat (Habiba) Onyioza Sheidu Is a Public Health professional with over 10 years’ experience designing, Implementing, providing capacity building as well as monitoring and evaluating complex Public Health Supply Chains. She worked on various PEPFAR funded projects: ICAP project implemented by Columbia University, Leadership Management and Sustainability-AIDS Care and treatment (LMS-ACT) project, implemented by Management Sciences for Health where she won the leadership at all levels award, and FHI360 where She was among the pioneer staff of the Supply Chain Management unit of the Health Policy and Systems Management Department during the Global HIV/AIDS initiative in Nigeria (GHAIN) project and later led the Supply Chain Management arm of the Health Systems Strengthening department on the Strengthening Integrated delivery of HIV/AIDS (SIDHAS) project also implemented by FHI360 where she won the STAR award in 2013 and employee of the year award in 2014. She currently works with the United Nations Development Program as Logistics Management Information System Coordinator on a global fund project for HIV/AIDS, Malaria and TB.

Dean Sienko, MD 
The Carter Center
Vice President for Health Programs

Dean Sienko, M.D, M.S, is the Vice President for Health Programs at The Carter Center, beginning in June 2016.  Previous positions he has held were as the Associate Dean for Prevention and Public Health at the College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University; Health Officer, Medical Director and Medical Examiner for the Ingham County Health Department in Lansing, Michigan; and Acting Chief Medical Executive for the Michigan Department of Community Health.  Dr. Sienko also had a 32-year career as a US Army officer with his last assignment as Commanding General of the US Army Public Health Command.  He received his M.D. from the University of Wisconsin, a M.S. from the University of Michigan, and a M.S.S. from the U.S. Army War College.   He is board certified in Public Health and General Preventive Medicine.  

Karen Smilowitz, PhD 
Northwestern University
McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence, Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences

Dr. Smilowitz studies modeling and solution approaches for logistics and transportation systems.  She has developed innovative modeling and solution techniques for these complex systems in both commercial and non-profit applications, working with transportation providers, logistics specialists and a range of non-profit organizations.  She is currently leading the Northwestern Initiative on Humanitarian and Non-Profit Logistics with fellow IEMS faculty member Irina Dolinskaya. Dr. Smilowitz has worked on several projects in the area of operational improvement in community-based health care.  Community-based operations research is the application of decision models to social issues of a local nature. The goal of this field is to design policies and tactics that have the potential to improve individual life outcomes and neighborhood-level outcomes by addressing welfare, equity and administrative efficiency simultaneously.

Erica Tavares
International Medical Corps
Senior Director, Institutional Advancement

A dynamic and politically savvy fundraising professional, Erica Tavares leads partnership development and private fundraising efforts at International Medical Corps, a global humanitarian organization that has delivered more than $2.2 billion in health care services over 30 years in more than 70 countries. A results-driven leader, Erica manages and motivates diverse teams to work together on fundraising opportunities to achieve breakthrough results. With over a decade in fundraising, major gifts, corporate partnership development, gift-in-kind, special events and direct marketing, Erica leads a growing team to increase revenue and mobilize resources to meet organizational goals. She specializes in jumpstarting new fundraising channels for growing organizations. Erica was previously a member of the management team at Women for Women International, helping to grow their annual revenue from $1 million to more than $30 million in less than 10 years. She has also worked with the Democratic National Committee and received her BA from American University.

Ted Terry
City of Clarkston (Georgia)
Mayor

Adam Thompson
eHealth Africa
Executive Director and Co-Founder

Adam Thompson is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of eHealth Africa. He has over 10 years of experience living and working across West Africa designing and leading innovative and context appropriate information and communication technologies. He leads eHA’s global health informatics team who design and develop software and technical tools to strengthen operations and enhance visibility. His experience includes building response teams of over 300+ staff in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea in less than two months. He developed an emergency supply chain for Ebola virus lab sample that achieved a 24-hour turnaround on 100% of samples. He also spearheaded the developed vaccine trial program in Sierra Leone with the CDC. The $18 million undertaking was up and running less than two months after initial conception. Mr Thompson has a Bachelors of Science in Information Systems and Technology Management from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Prior to establishing eHA, he was an Associate Director for Programs and Instruction, Research Specialist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Becky Turner Martin
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Emergency Management Specialist, Global Rapid Response Team

Becky joined CDC’s Global Rapid Response Team as an Emergency Management Specialist Contractor working on Field Logistics in emergency response. She has been working on the Yellow Fever outbreak in Angola since joining the team and previously, worked as a Fellow for the Emergency Response & Recovery Branch in Haiti for the cholera response doing both cold chain and vaccine distribution work as well as warehouse and inventory management for the National Lab. Prior to her work with CDC, she worked for the Humanitarian Logistics Association as a Consultant on a Practice Network Policy paper seeking to address the professionalization of logisticians in the humanitarian sector. Her prior research focused on the barriers to customs entry for the importation of relief consignments during an emergency where she was affiliated with the WCO and UNCTAD and did a Graduate Internship with the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. She has also worked as Project Manager internationally in telecommunications, property rights, and water technology projects. Becky earned her BA from the University of Southern California in International Relations and graduated summa cum laude with a Masters in Humanitarian Logistics from the Universitta della svizzera italiana. 

Edward Wilson
John Snow, Inc. (JSI)
IQC Manager, USAID | DELIVER PROJECT

Mr. Wilson currently serves as Project Director for the USAID | DELIVER PROJECT, an indefinite quantity contract with 7 task orders providing technical assistance in supply chain management and commodity security to over 20 USAID-supported countries and procurement and distribution services for USAID-funded public health commodities. He is also the Director of JSI’s Center for Health Logistics overseeing 30 projects across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Mr. Wilson has over thirty years of experience working in public health in developing countries with twenty-five years of experience in logistics system improvement and information systems and has worked in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean providing both short-term and long-term technical assistance to host-country partners. Mr. Wilson has extensive experience in all aspects of logistics system design and implementation with special expertise in forecasting, logistics management information systems, and software development. Mr. Wilson has a BA from Oberlin College and an MS from the George Washington University.

Mirjam Wit
CARE USA
Commodity Tracking System Consultant

Leveraging her commercial supply chain and humanitarian development background, Mirjam is currently consulting CARE on sourcing a new Commodity Tracking System for global use. During her tenure with Tyco International, Mirjam worked in supply chain management, focusing on process design, sourcing and distribution, supplier conformance, and quality control. Prior to Tyco, she served in the Peace Corps consulting small businesses on strategy, project management and leadership. Mirjam holds a Bachelor of Science from Boston College, and an MBA from the University of Notre Dame. She is based in Atlanta, GA.

Prashant Yadav, PhD 
Harvard Medical School
Visiting Scholar

Prashant Yadav is a globally recognized researcher, educator and policy advisor in the area of healthcare supply chains. He serves on the advisory boards of many private companies and global agencies including large multilateral, bilateral and private philanthropic organizations. He advises global leaders, policy makers and developing country governments on the role of supply chains in emerging market health and development programs. He also advises pharmaceutical companies on their supply chain strategies in Africa and other frontier markets. He is the author of many peer reviewed scientific publications and his work has been featured in prominent print and broadcast media including The Economist, The Financial Times, Nature and BBC. Yadav has been on the faculty at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and School of Public Health. He is also a visiting scholar at INSEAD. Previously, Yadav was profressor of Supply Chain management at the MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program and a Research Affiliate at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. Yadav obtained his Bachelors degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, MBA from the FORE School of Management, and PhD from the Manderson School of Business at the University of Alabama.

Ellen Zegura, DSc 
Georgia Institute of Technology
Professor and Chair, School of Computer Science, College of Computing

Ellen W. Zegura received the BS in Computer Science, the BS in Electrical Engineering, the MS in Computer Science and the DSc in Computer Science, all from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Since 1993 she has been on the faculty of the College of Computing at Georgia Tech where she conducts research and teaches in computer networking and computing for development.  In 2008, she helped create the Computing for Good initiative in the College of Computing, a project-based teaching and research activity that focuses on the use of computing to solve pressing societal problems.  She is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the ACM, and an elected member of the Computing Research Association Board (CRA). Since Fall 2004 she has been on the Executive Board of the CRA. She served on the NSF CISE Advisory Committee from 2005-2009.     

Dominique Zwinkels
UNICEF/People that Deliver Initiative (PtD)
Executive Manager

Dominique Zwinkels, Executive Manager, People that Deliver Dominique Zwinkels is the Executive Manager of the People that Deliver Initiative, a partnership of organizations working towards global recognition that competent, recognized and supported supply chain workforce are needed in order to have strong public health supply chains. Prior to this position, Dominique worked for John Snow International at the Partnership for Supply Chain Management (PFSCM). She has also worked for the International Food Policy Research Institute, Innovative Resources Management, and has over seven years of experience with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC). She has both an MBA in International Business Administration and a Master’s degree in Nutrition. She is fluent in English, Spanish and Dutch. As a native of The Netherlands and having lived in Latin America (Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela) and Washington, DC, she is now based at UNICEF SD in Copenhagen, Denmark.