The CARISCA Project has expertise in supply chain management, assessment, training and learning, inclusion, and project management. We will leverage the combined experience to realize the vision of KNUST as a source of supply chain expertise in Ghana and regionally, creating inclusive training and educational programs that empower a diverse group of supply chain professionals and building local, regional and global networks of partners. These efforts can transform the supply chain in Ghana, creating numerous positive impacts on systems, communities, and individuals.
CARISCA’s four focus areas or components, Research, Stakeholder Engagement, Curricula, and Access and Inclusion, have a corresponding component team. There is overlap among the teams to promote cross-pollination of ideas, capitalize on synergies, and prevent information silos.
Executive Director and Principal Investigator
Dale Rogers is the ON Semiconductor Professor of Business in Supply Chain Management and Director of the Frontier Economies Logistics Lab. Dale is a leading researcher in reverse logistics, sustainable supply chain management, supply chain finance and secondary markets. On the CARISCA project, he provides project leadership, research, and curricular oversight, and facilitates the CARISCA Advisory Board.
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Project Director
Jake Kupiec is responsible for project oversight, work planning, reporting, budgeting, strategic communications, and overall management of the project.
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Senior Technical Advisor
Component 2 Co-Lead
Tom Choi is an ASU professor and Co-Director of ASU’s Complex Adaptive Supply Networks Research Accelerator (CASN-RA), studies the upstream side of supply chains and guides research strengthening activities.
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Senior Technical Advisor
Mohan Gopalakrishnan, Professor and Chair of ASU’s Supply Chain Management Department, is an expert in health and humanitarian supply chains and guides governance and curriculum.
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Senior Technical Advisor
Katy Keane is a lecturer in Supply Chain Management at ASU. She provides technical assistance on forecasting, inventory planning, and business processes in supply chains and advising on the development of the CPE curriculum for CARISCA.
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Senior Technical Advisor and Component 3 Co-Lead
Thomas Kull, an ASU Research Professor in Supply Chain Management, studies how behavior influences operations and supply chains and the use of gamification in supply chain education.
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Senior Technical Advisor and Component 1 Co-Lead
Adegoke Oke, Professor of Supply Chain Management, is a global authority on supply chain disruptions in developing countries and serves as ASU faculty for the MasterCard Foundation Scholars in partnership with KNUST.
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Senior Technical Advisor
Roseanne Schuster is an Assistant Research Scientist and Director of Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning for the Global Impact Collaboratory. She specializes in evaluation and health systems environments, advises monitoring and evaluation activities, and provides technical assistance on the last-mile needs of health systems and health workers.
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Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL) Director
David Schlinkert is responsible for CARISCA performance and context monitoring, data collection, analysis, evaluation, research, and learning.
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Principal Investigator, Director of the CARISCA Centre and Component 1 Co-Lead
Nathaniel Boso, Director of CARISCA and Dean of the KNUST Business School, provides overall oversight and leadership of the CARISCA Center at KNUST.
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CARISCA’s Director of Operations
Robert Abaidoo is responsible for the direction and coordination of the CARISCA project at KNUST.
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Research and Training Coordinator
Kekeli Adonu is responsible for all facility operations and activities in KNUST and manages the planning, scheduling, logistics for CARISCA’s trainings and conferences, and project management for Components 1 and 3
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Senior Technical Advisor and Component 3 Co-Lead
John Manso Frimpong, Lecturer in Supply Chain, coordinates KNUST’s executive/professional training programs in procurement, logistics, and supply chains and will expand these programs under CARISCA.
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Senior Technical Advisor and Component 2 Co-Lead
John Serbe Marfo, Lecturer in Supply Chain, brings extensive research and consulting experience and is responsible for developing strategies and leading research on healthcare supply chain innovation and technology.
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Senior Technical Advisor and Component 3 Co-Lead
Abdul Samed Muntaka is KNUST’s Supply Chain Management department chair and specializes in commodity supply chains. He is responsible for developing strategies and leading research on agriculture supply chain innovation and coordinating all academic programs at the CARISCA Center.
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Center Administrator
Elise Konadu Addae provides activity and administrative support for events such as PCC meetings and the Annual Supply Chain Research Summit, and organizes workflows for Luminosity Lab teams and consulting services.
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Website Administrator
Christa Nyameye Agyemang updates the center website at KNUST, writes web and newsletter content, creates promotional materials and provides support on CARISCA’s Branding and Marking Plan at KNUST.
Center Accountant
Owusu Acheampong is responsible to the Center Director for the financial administration of CARISCA ensuring all expenses are allowable and have proposer documentation and justification, the timely submission of invoices and tracking project expenses and cost share to date.
Research Faculty
Dominic Essuman is a lecturer at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana, a research faculty at the Center for Applied Research and Innovation in Supply Chain-Africa (CARISCA), and a research associate at the Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa
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Research Faculty
Robert Aidoo focuses on Agricultural supply chain activities in Ghana and a member of Components 2 and 3. He specializes in the development and functionality of agricultural commodity value chains and hopes to bring his vast experience in agricultural/agribusiness research to bear on CARISCA activities.
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Research Faculty
Priscilla Kolibea Mante is a senior lecturer at the Department of Pharmacology at KNUST. Priscilla, who has a PhD in Pharmacology, is also a Pharmacist with a specialization in neuropharmacology and several years’ experience with health commodity selection, quantification, procurement, and quality assurance.
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