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 many 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 the 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. 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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Senior Technical Advisor and 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 and Component 3 Co-Lead
Eddie Davila is a principal teaching professor of supply chain management. He has taught over 50,000 students in his 25 years at ASU. Davila has developed hundreds of educational and promotional videos as well as a digital textbook. His introductory supply chain video series on YouTube has over 5 million views and is used by universities and corporations around the world.
Senior Technical Advisor
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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Senior Technical Advisor
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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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 and Component 4 Co-Lead
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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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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Assistant Director, Communications
Barby Grant oversees all communication and marketing efforts including publications, email communications, the website, social media, public relations and events.
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Business Development Manager
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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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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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 health care 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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Senior Technical Advisor and Component 4 Co-Lead
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.
Center Manager
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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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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Business Development
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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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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Center Communication Assistant
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
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
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
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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