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Book Title Distribution/Track and Trace
Estelle Day, World Education
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Estelle Day has worked for twenty-five years in the international education sector, focusing mainly on Asia. As Senior Adviser for World Education’s Asia Division, Ms Day is responsible for oversight of the organisation’s Cambodia portfolio, as well as other new business development work for the Asia Division and has been based out of World Education’s head office since 2005.
Prior to her work with World Education Ms. Day spent six years in Cambodia establishing and leading innovative girls’ education interventions. Over her career, Ms. Day has worked or overseen programs in fourteen countries globally. Ms. Day is a fluent speaker of Khmer.
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Benjamin Hatch, JSI Center for Health Logistics
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Ben Hatch has more than a decade of experience in international health, focusing on supply chain management of health commodities. As a Technical Advisor with the JSI Center for Health Logistics, he has extensive experience helping country governments better ensure the supply of critical commodities down to the hardest-to-reach places.
Before joining JSI, he worked for two years at a maternity clinic in rural Mali as a US Peace Corps volunteer. Mr. Hatch has worked in Burkina Faso, Chad, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Tanzania, and Tonga and is fluent in French and Bambara.
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The Global Book Gap
Carol DaShano da Silva, Global Book Alliance
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Dr. Carol DeShano da Silva is the Senior Advisor for the Global Book Alliance. The GBA mission is to ensure all children have the quality books and reading materials they need to learn to read and to read to learn She is a technical expert is language and literacy and is a co-author of Save the Children’s award-winning Literacy Boost approach.
Most recently, Dr. da Silva served as Senior Director of Regional Strategy at Worldreader, a global non-profit organization that provides people in the developing world with free access to a library of digital books via e-readers and mobile phones. Prior to that, she spent nearly five years as Senior Advisor of Basic Education for Save the Children US. Dr. da Silva holds an Ed.M. and Ed.D. from Harvard University.
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Global view of challenges and opportunities in SCM
Sriram Narayanan, MSU Dept of Supply Chain Management
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Dr. Sriram Narayanan is a Professor with the Department of Supply Chain Management. Prior to his doctoral degree in Operations Technology and Innovation Management at University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, he received his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA from the University of Delhi, India. His industry experience includes working for Maruti Udyog Limited, a subsidiary of Suzuki Motor Corporation, and HCL Technologies, a software services company.
Dr. Narayanan's primary research interests are in managing productivity and innovation in knowledge intensive work environments. His passion is to work on real problems in the field and crafting research issues from those. His research has been published or is forthcoming in multiple journals and he was also a Lilly Teaching Fellow (2013-2014).
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On the ground distribution challenges
Catherine Uwimana, Save the Children-Rwanda
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Catherine Uwimana has been strengthening the book sector since 2011, supporting the development, provision, and use of high-quality children’s books to improve reading practices and skills among early learners. Catherine works for Save the Children in Rwanda as the Book Development and Use Technical Specialist, overseeing the organization’s whole book chain approach that seeks to address systemic issues and sustainability.
She also supports book development and reading activities for Save the Children in Senegal and Mozambique. Prior to joining Save the Children, Catherine was a Delegate Speaker at One Young World and consulted for Institut Goethe in Kigali. Catherine is a children’s books author and recently wrote and produced an award-winning animated short film.
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Global IDEAS
Global Innovations in Development, Engagement, and Scholarship (Global IDEAS) catalyzes interdisciplinary thought, research, and action to solve global/grand challenges in an international development context. We facilitate communities of practice; collaborate and engage with external partners and donors; enhance opportunities for faculty and staff to conduct research, education, and engagement; and provide proposal development and project management to support MSU’s international objectives.
Contact information:
Global IDEAS
1405 S. Harrison Rd. Manly Miles Bldg., Suite 308
East Lansing, MI 48823
Email: globalideas@msu.edu
Phone: (517) 884-2987
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