People at the SCM&SR Subject

Anna Aminoff 

Head of Subject

Associate Professor in Supply Chain Management and Social Responsibility

Ph.D. Programme Coordinator

Anna Aminoff's research interests are focused on sustainable supply chains and circular economy, managing external resources and strategic sourcing, and data-based decision-making in procurement. Her work in these areas has led to numerous collaborations with research partners, companies, and public funding organizations, including Nordic Innovation, Business Finland, and the European Union.

Gyöngyi Kovács 

Professor in Supply Chain Management and Social Responsibility

Erkko Professor in Humanitarian Logistics

Dean of Research at the Hanken School of Economics

Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management (JHLSCM)

Gyöngyi Kovács has published extensively in the areas of humanitarian logistics and sustainable supply chain management. She was awarded humanitarian logistics researcher of the year 2020 by the American Logistics Aid Network ALAN. Currently, she is leading a Horizon 2020 (EU) COVID-19 project called “HERoS” (Health Emergency Response in Interconnected Systems).

Nikodemus Solitander

Postdoctoral Researcher in Supply Chain Management and Social Responsibility

Associate Dean of Sustainability

Nikodemus 'Niko' Solitander works as Researcher in Supply Chain Management and Social Responsibility at Hanken. His main expertise is in the areas of corporate responsibility, financialization, business and human rights, transnational advocacy networks, and responsible management education. He has a keen interest in pedagogical development and methods.

Teaching on masters, undergraduate, MBA and executive level.

Currently he acts as coordinator for Hanken's study module in Corporate Responsibility.

David Grant

Professor Emeritus in Supply Chain Management and Social Responsibility

David B. Grant is Professor Emeritus of Supply Chain Management & Social Responsibility, Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland. He was Hanken's Vice Rector (Dean) of Research and Societal Impact from 2020-2023. Previous academic appointments include Hull University Business School, England, where he held posts as Director of the Logistics Institute and Associate Dean, Heriot-Watt and Edinburgh Universities, Scotland, and Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, Canada.

Diego Vega 

Associate Professor in Supply Chain Management and Social Responsibility

esp. Humanitarian Logistics at Hanken

Director of the HUMLOG Institute

Prior to joining Hanken and the Institute Diego was Assistant Professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management and lastly, Head of Department of Information Systems, Supply Chain Management and Decision Making at NEOMA Business School, France. Diego completed his doctoral studies at the CRET-LOG Research Institute, Aix-Marseille University in France, in collaboration with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), France. He also followed MSF’s Préparation au Premier Départ Logistique (PPDL) training at CEFORLOG. Diego has over 12 years of experience conducting research in the humanitarian context and over 10 years of experience in teaching and curriculum design. Diego’s current research interests include logistics services in humanitarian operations, modularity, emergency relief logistics, temporary settlements, and competence-based strategic management for humanitarian organizations.

Daniel Ekwall 

Associate Professor in Supply Chain Management and Social Responsibility

Daniel Ekwall is an associate professor of Supply Chain Management & Social Responsibility at Hanken and professor of Textile Management at University of Borås. Dr. Ekwall has a background in engineering and he's even got an entrepreneurial background. He holds a doctoral degree from University of Borås with a thesis about Managing the Risk for Antagonistic: Threats against the Transport Network.

Wojciech Piotrowicz 

Associate Professor in Supply Chain Management and Social Responsibility

Wojciech Piotrowicz (PhD Brunel, UK, MA Gdańsk, PL, PGDipLATHE Oxon, UK) is Associate Professor in Supply Chain Management and Social Responsibility, and former Director of the Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Research Institute (HUMLOG Institute). His PhD was focused on e-procurement evaluation.

Wojciech's current research is related to risks especially in supply chain management, as well as humanitarian logistics, disaster preparedness, security. Wojciech has considerable experience as member of large international research projects within both the public and private sectors. He is recipient of Outstanding and Highly Commended paper awards from Emerald Literati Network. Since 2019 Wojciech leads an Academy of Finland research project focused on humanitarian logistics in conflict areas.

Mikael Öhman 

Assistant Professor in Supply Chain Management and Social Responsibility

Mikael Öhman, an Assistant Professor at Hanken School of Economics, previously conducted doctoral research at Aalto University. Throughout his academic journey, he has collaborated closely with industry to bridge theory and real-world problem-solving. His methodological focus on Design Science resulted in an award-winning dissertation, "Design Science in Operations Management," published in prestigious journals like the Journal of Operations Management and Journal of Business Logistics. Mikael's research explores the potential of digital technologies in revolutionizing operations and supply chain management, with expertise spanning production planning, quality management, performance measurement, and procurement across diverse industries. 

Sarah Schiffling

Assistant Professor in Supply Chain Management and Social Responsibility

Deputy Director of the HUMLOG Institute

Sarah enjoys writing about supply chain topics for general audiences and often contributes to media coverage on TV, radio, podcasts, online, and in print. Many of her articles have been published by The Conversation. Sarah's research interests include transport infrastructure and climate change, pharmaceutical supply chains, disaster relief operations, supply chain disruptions, and supply chain management in developing nations. Her current projects focus on vaccine supply chains, logistics in conflict areas, commercial-humanitarian interactions, and resilient transport systems. On the latter topic, she is part of the Horizon Europe funded ReMuNet project.

Ann-Jolin Grüne

Project Planning Officer

Miranda Lillqvist

Department Secretary

M.A. in Education, General and Adult Education

Miranda is the Department Secretary at the Department of Marketing. Her responsibilities are administrative tasks at the department, communication with students and staff and planning and coordinating events. Miranda has a Master’s degree in General and Adult education. 

Kieto Mahaniah 

Operations Coordinator

MSc. in Economics and Business Administration

Kieto is Operations Coordinator for the subject's research projects. He facilitates the ongoing operations, plans and supports the execution of conferences and events, and provides strategic assistance as the subject navigates the ever-changing supply chain research world. Kieto is a recent Hanken graduate and wrote his thesis on quantification tools for medical commodities in humanitarian settings.

Anna Voutilainen 

Administrative assistant

BSc. in Economics and Business Administration

Anna enables smooth daily operations at the subject of Supply Chain Management and Social Responsibility. Her responsibilities include communicating about what is going on at the research front, coordinating events, and helping out staff members with daily tasks. As a second-year master's student in International Strategy and Sustainability, my academic interests include sustainable investing and strategy. 

Ketki Kulkarni 

Postdoctoral Researcher

Ph.D. in Simulation Optimization Modeling

Ketki Kulkarni's research interests include decision support for traffic networks, simulation, applied optimization and smart logistics. She specializes in the use of advanced simulation software for industrial applications. She has worked extensively in the Finnish marine transport domain for the last 5 years. She has obtained her PhD in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. She is not only interested in contributing to the methodology literature, but also in developing efficient tools that are used by organizations for their daily operations. She finds packaging the research work (math and sim models) into usable solutions exciting and challenging.

Amin Maghsoudi

Postdoctoral Researcher

Ph.D. in Operations Management

Amin Maghsoudi is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Research Institue (HUMLOG Institute), Hanken, Helsinki. Previous appointment inlcudes School of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran, where he held a post as a project researcher. Amin’s doctoral research at Universiti Sains Malaysia investigated inter-organizational coordination among the network of actors in humanitarian supply chains. His research interests include humanitarian logistics and disater relief supply chains, supply chain risk and resilience, digital supply chains, cash and voucher assistance in complex emergencies and refugee crisis. 

Amin is currently involving in two externally funded research projects: 1) A lead reasearch member of Cash & Carry project funded by Academy of Finland, and 2) Principal Investigator (PI) of DigCBA project funded by Norwegian Research Council. The projects look into the distribution of cash and goods, and the digitalization of it along the supply chains. Amin's research outputs are published in peer-reviewed journals such as International Journal of Operations & Production Management. Amin is also supervising Master students and PhD candidates. 

Aino Ruggiero 

Postdoctoral Researcher

Ph.D. in Organisational communication and public relations / Crisis communication

Aino Ruggiero works as a Postdoctoral researcher at the Humanitarian Logistics and Supply chain research Institute, Hanken School of Economics. Her current research in the EU-funded project sCience & human factOr for Resilient sociEty (CORE, grant agreement No 101021746), is exploring how the security of supply is organized within the disaster management and disaster risk reduction frameworks in the EU. Within that scope, Aino is particularly interested in citizens’ home preparedness, the role of citizens for the security of supply and supply chain resilience, and how preparedness advice are communicated to citizens.

In an Academy of Finland -funded project Cash and/or carry: The challenges and modalities of delivering aid in conflict zones (No 3037), she is studying how different aid modalities are discussed in the news media at the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine.

Virva Tuomala 

Postdoctoral Researcher

Ph.D. Supply Chain Management and Social Responsibilty

Virva Tuomala is a postdoctoral researcher at the Humlog Institute. She has a BSc and MSc in supply chain management from University of Turku and an MSc in environment and sustainable development from University College London. She gained her PhD in 2021 at Hanken, with a thesis titled Urban food security at the intersection of retail supply chain management and development studies. Fieldwork for the thesis was collected in poor urban neighbourhoods in South Africa and Thailand. Her work has been published in several edited books and academic journals such as International Journal of Logistics Management. Dr. Tuomala has worked in research projects examining environmental sustainability in the humanitarian supply chains digital cash-based assistance in refugee contexts, and innovations in last-mile logistics.

Jamile Hamideh 

Doctoral Researcher

M.Sc. in Economics and Business Administration (Humanitarian logistics)

Jamile Hamideh's research is found at the critical intersection between humanitarian logistics, technology and law. Her work investigates how the use of emerging digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain and 3d printing can promote or hinder the participation of beneficiaries in humanitarian supply chains.

Helleke Heikkinen

Doctoral Researcher

M.Sc. in Economics and Business Administration (Supply Chain Management & Corporate Geography)

Helleke is looking at sustainability as a phenomenon, through the context of the urban last mile, where innovations, sustainability, and urban development meet in the limited spatial context that is a city. She is contributing to the the SCM & SR projects i-smile and LOGIN, looking at light electric freight vehicles, the sustainability of last mile innovations and business models, as well as the roles of cities and municipalities in impacting the development of the commercial side of city logistics. 

Tamara Kirkwood-Wright 

Doctoral Researcher

M.Sc. in Humanitarianism, Conflict & Development

M.Sc. in Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Tamara's research focuses on the localisation of humanitarian logistics in settings of conflict. Previously, Tamara managed the supply chain response for the Health Pooled Fund in South Sudan. She also has experience in supply chain and logistics consulting, working on end-to-end supply chain projects across retail, pharma, industrial, aerospace and food manufacturing industries.

John Munyoro

Doctoral Researcher

M.Sc. in Economics and Business Administration

John is a doctoral candidate whose research centers on local food systems, small-scale farming, agro-climatic resilience, circular economy, and the accessibility of local livelihoods following humanitarian and development aid disruptions. His scholarly endeavours both quantitative and qualitative research, which reflect an unwavering dedication to advancing local knowledge, unlocking local potential, and addressing pressing global challenges that impact socio-economic well-being of the underprivileged communities.

Rosa Palmgren

Doctoral Researcher

M.Sc. in Economics and Business Administration

Rosa is a passionate researcher, particularly interested in the transition to a circular economy, working in topics related to emerging circular economy contexts and implementing the new solutions in the supply chains.

Margot Rocheteau 

Doctoral Researcher

M.Sc. in Economics and Business Administration

Margot is a dedicated PhD student specializing in humanitarian supply chain and sustainability. Through her research, she endeavors to shed light on sustainability opportunities in challenging contexts. Margot's focus is on circularity within humanitarian supply chains, with a particular emphasis on effective waste management. With a passion for creating a positive impact, she strives to contribute valuable insights to the field of sustainable humanitarian logistics.

Sonja Saari 

Doctoral Researcher

Sonja’s research focuses on the nexus between supply chain sustainability and supply chain resilience in the context of the humanitarian medical cold chain. Specifically, her work explores the humanitarian energy transition to foster sustainable energy access for the humanitarian medical cold chain. Through her research, she seeks to shed light on the factors that legitimise and define energy solutions in the energy-intensive and energy-dependent humanitarian medical cold chain. 

Félicia Saïah

Doctor of Philosophy (formerly doctoral researcher)

Felicia recently defended her thesis on Process Modularity in Humanitarian Supply Chains. 

Greta Steenvoorden

Doctoral Researcher

Greta's research interests include the mechanisms that support or alternatively hinder the inclusion of factory worker's perspectives in the Corporate Social Responsibility practices of the multinational corporations in the developing country context.

Claire Travers

Doctoral Researcher

M.Sc. in International Humanitarian Action
M.Sc. in Humanitarian Analysis and Intervention Design

As a doctoral researcher Claire focuses on humanitarian logistics, specifically on local procurement and market-aligned aid provision. Claire is also head of the Humanitarian Unwrapped podcast.

Previously Claire was a MEAL and Impact consultant in humanitarian contexts including in the Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Bangladesh, Pacific Islands, Jordan, Malawi, West Africa, Nepal, and Madagascar. In 2021, I founded the Local Procurement Learning Partnership for the WFP Innovation Bootcamp, and set it up at the Humanitarian Logistics Association. 

Qifeng Yan 

Doctoral Researcher

Qifeng focuses primarily on the applications of climate science in humanitarian logistics. He is interested how the impacts of natural disasters can be mitigated by using climate information in humanitarian operations. He is also interested in development studies and sustainability.

Anna Zhuravleva

Doctoral Researcher

Anna's research interests include closed-loop and reverse supply chain solutions, humanitarian supply chain and social responsibility. Previously, Anna was a leader of the global association 180 Degrees Consulting in Helsinki which connects students with local NGOs through various consulting projects. Under her leadership, students helped Finnish NGOs in identifying donor management and marketing strategies as well as in managing the supply chain of second-hand charity stores.
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