Dale Rogers is the ON Semiconductor Professor of Business in Supply Chain Management and director of the Frontier Economies Logistics Lab. He 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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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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Mohan Gopalakrishnan is senior associate dean for the W. P. Carey School of Business and a professor of supply chain management. He is an expert in health and humanitarian supply chains and guides governance and curriculum.

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Katy Keane is a teaching professor 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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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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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 gender-informed research and outreach activities.

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David Schlinkert provides oversight and leadership for the USAID-funded CARISCA project.

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Dace Mahanay provides technical direction in capacity strengthening for ASU’s Ghanaian partner, KNUST; oversees the operational aspects of the capacity strengthening approach, and drives private sector engagement to ensure the long-term sustainability of CARISCA.

Barby Grant oversees all communication and marketing efforts for CARISCA, including publications, email communications, the website, social media, public relations and events.

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Caty Hirst is responsible for business development for CARISCA, with a goal to connect policymakers, business leaders and academics in the United States and in Africa on improving supply chains.

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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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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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John Serbe Marfo, lecturer in supply chain, brings extensive research and consulting experience and is responsible for developing strategies and leading research on health care supply chain innovation and technology.

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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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Matilda Owusu-Bio is a lecturer in the Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems. Her research focus is in supply chain management, humanitarian logistics, and the gender dynamics within these business management fields. 

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As director of operations for CARISCA, Amos Ato Eghan is responsible for directing and coordinating activities, managing the CARISCA KNUST administration, expense control and staff management. He also ensures that CARISCA KNUST activities and expenditures comply with the cooperative agreement.

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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Owusu Acheampong is responsible to the center director for the financial administration of CARISCA, ensuring all expenses are allowable and have proper documentation and justification, the timely submission of invoices and tracking project expenses and cost share to date.

Collins Boakye Dankwa is the center manager for CARISCA. He is responsible for the day-to-day operations, managing work plans and budgets, mentoring staff and supporting students and faculty, and developing stakeholder relationships that are key to CARISCA’s success.

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Evans Kwasi Ankomah, Jr. is responsible for center events, media awareness of center activities, and promotion of supply chain management career awareness and KNUST admission opportunities to the teaming youths in pre-tertiary institutions.

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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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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.

Benjamin Ashong oversees CARISCA’s day-to-day IT operations and IT projects at KNUST.

Jesse Anim serves as technical manager for the Innovation Lab, an entrepreneurial training hub and innovation incubator at KNUST. An accomplished software developer and innovator, he is passionate about working with young people to identify and develop original solutions to supply chain issues.

Stephen Frimpong is administrative manager for the Innovation Lab at KNUST. The lab serves as an entrepreneurial training hub and innovation incubator. Stephen has won awards for his own entrepreneurial innovations.

Priscilla Adusei assists the accountant with the financial administration of CARISCA. In this role, she documents, tracks, keeps records and runs reports of all financial transactions.

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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Emmanuel Kwabena Anin is a senior lecturer at Kumasi Technical University (KsTU) and a research associate at the Regional Transport Research and Education Centre at KNUST. His research interests span interfirm relationship governance, strategic purchasing, supply chain integration and procurement audit. His current research focuses on sustainability and resilience in small and medium-sized enterprises.

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Henry Ataburo is a research fellow under the O.R. Tambo Africa Research Chair Initiative at the KNUST School of Business. Driven by problem-solving, he takes a keen interest in providing solutions to operational bottlenecks through research focusing on supply chain operations strategy, resilience (i.e., related supply chain disruptions/vulnerabilities) and sustainability.

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Richard Boso is a lecturer at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). His research interests include green supply chain management, policy/program impact evaluation, demand forecasting and inventory modelling, and CSR in the mining industry.

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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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Priscilla Kolibea Mante is a senior lecturer at the Department of Pharmacology at KNUST. She 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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