Hossein Baharmand is an Associate Professor in Project and Supply Chain Management at the School of Business and Law, University of Agder, Norway. His primary research interest lies in the development and application of decision support methodologies (based on both qualitative and quantitative approaches) in order to solve complex problems in crisis and humanitarian operations.

hossein.barhmand@uia.no

Saeed is a Professor in Supply Chain Management at the School of Business and Law at the University of Agder. Saeed was an honorary visiting fellow at La Trobe Business School, Melbourne, Australia, and a visiting scholar at the School of Business IT and Logistics, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, University of California, Berkeley, United States, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan, and Nelson Mandela University Business School, South Africa.

naima.saeed@uia.no

Widera is a researcher at the University of Münster and managing director of the ERCIS C³M.
His research activities cover the modeling, simulation, analysis and performance management in humanitarian logistics as well as the design and evaluation of humanitarian information systems. He has been involved in various European and national research projects in the context of humanitarian logistics and crisis management.

Kalla is a research assistant at the University of Münster. His research mainly deals with the
application of enterprise architecture management in the context of supply chain planning and supply chain risk management.

Sgarbossa is Full Professor of Industrial Logistics at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MTP) at NTNU (Norway). He is leader of the Production Management Group at MTP and he is responsible of the Logistics 4.0 Lab at NTNU. His research interests cover many research areas from intralogistics to supply chain management, with specific focus on how advanced technologies impact on production and logistics systems.

fabio.sgarbossa@ntnu.no

Prof. Ntayi is the Dean Faculty of Computing and Management Science at Makerere University Business School. Dr. Ntayi is a holder of a PhD and bears a great deal of experience in consultancy, research curriculum review and development, former, Project Manager, the Netherlands Programme for the Institutional Strengthening of Post-secondary Education and Training Capacity (NPT/UGA/040). Support for institutional Capacity Development in Public and Private Procurement Management in Uganda.

jntayi@mubs.ac.ug

Gloria Nakajja holds a degree of Master of Science in Procurement and Supply Chain Management (MPCM) and a degree of Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA, Hons) all of Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. She is highly qualified and skilled in the field of procurement and supply chain management, continuous improvement and operations management. Gloria is an energetic and ambitious person with excellent communication skills and has developed a mature and responsible approach to any task that she can undertake, or situation that she is presented with. As a graduate, Gloria is excellent in working with others to achieve a certain objective on time with excellence

Charles Olupot is a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Makerere University Business School. Charles also serves as the Director, MUBS ICT Centre, an Outreach Unit of Makerere University Business School; a Centre that conducts ICT research, training and Information Systems Development. Charles has over 10 years of experience in ICT implementation, Management and Administration. His current research interests include scalability of digital innovations and digital entrepreneurship and. Other areas of experience include digital financial services, e-Customer Relationship Management, e-Agriculture, ICT4D,  ICT Project Management and Monitoring & Evaluation.

Charles holds Masters of Science in Information Systems (Msc.IS), a Post Graduate Diploma in ICT, a Post Graduate Certificate in Evaluation and Bachelor of Business Computing (BBC).

Piotrowicz is Associate Professor in Supply Chain Management and Social Responsibility and Director of the Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Research Institute (HUMLOG Institute), in Helsinki, Finland. He currently leads an Academy of Finland research project (2019-21) focused on humanitarian logistics in conflict areas, and a Work Package in the DigCBA project.

Hamid is a Project Researcher at the HUMLOG institute at Hanken School of Economics. Abdelsalam obtained his PhD from college of business studies, business administration Department, Sudan University of Science and Technology, in Supply chain, he is an assistant professor of supply chain at international Maritime college Oman. In addition, he worked as an assistant professor and head of Business administration Department at Sudan university of science and technology. Abdelsalam has published more than 20 articles in various journals, and his research interests lie in supply chain practices, Logistics operations, Management and industrial business. He is a reviewer for many journals.

abdelsalam.hamidabakar@hanken.fi

Harpring is a PhD student at Hanken School of Economics in the department of Supply Chain Management and Social Responsibility. His research focuses on humanitarian logistics with a special interest in the use of cash and voucher assistance in complex emergencies, including how services are procured and implemented.