A high-profile speaker
Carole Serna, who whosted that conference, is a supply chain specialist at United Nations since 2004. She coordinated several supply chain operations (logistics, procurement, administration) in emergency/humanitarian contexts, often in complex, volatile and post-conflict settings, with various INGOs, Governments and UN organizations, in Lebanon, Burundi, Cuba, Macedonia, Kosovo, India, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Syria and Jordan. She has over twenty-five years of progressively responsible experience in public (United Nations, Government, and Non-Governmental Organizations) and private international organizations.
Overview of United Nations supply chain in support of Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding operations across the globe
The conference focused on 4 main topics:
1. What is Peacekeeping? (Where? Peacekeeping versus Humanitarian, vs Peacebuilding)
2. Peacekeeping in numbers
3. United Nations Supply chain (and its challenges)
4. United Nations Global service Centre, Italy: its portfolio of Supply Chain services
Hussein Shmaisany, current student of the International Trade & Logistics MSc, shared his feedback on the conference:
“The ITL programme directly interferes with this conference since it explained the role of logistics and transport in the United Nations and how it is a core sector. It also dealt with the chances of finding jobs in humanitarian field with the expertise of the ITL programme. I discovered that logistics is a major aspect of the humanitarian work. It is one of the main pillars to make the humanitarian response successful. It is also a work that combines the humanitarian and professional fields in one.”
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