Dr. Jorge Vargas Florez is Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, PUCP, attached to the Industrial Engineering School since 2007. Director of Research in Industrial Engineering. Founder of the Crisis and Disaster Management Research Group, CID-PUCP. Member of the Advisory Committee for Doctoral Studies in the Department of Engineering. Visiting researcher at Cranfield University and the University of Lincoln. He has co-authored various papers published in journals, books, and international conference proceedings. Scholarships; PUCP Jorge Dintilhac undergraduate studies, Paul Rivet-PUCP PhD studies. Experience as Chief and Supervisor in the areas of Logistics, Quality Control, Production and Commercial, respectively in Retail, Food and Energy sectors.
Dr. Irineu de Brito Junior is a professor of Risk Management at Sao Paulo State University (Unesp), São José dos Campos, Brazil, an invited Professor of Humanitarian Logistics at São Paulo University (USP), and a Humanitarian Logistics Instructor at Civil Defense and United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). He received his B.S. in Industrial Engineering; M.Sc. in Logistics Engineering, and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of São Paulo, USP. Actually, is POMS Latin America & Caribbean VP of Communications. His humanitarian research interests are in facility location, food security, donations management, and social impacts of Covid 19.
Adriana Leiras is a Professor of the Industrial Engineering Department at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro – PUC-Rio (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and as founder and coordinator of the HANDs Lab - Humanitarian Assistance and Needs for Disasters. She is the current Regional Vice President Americas of POMS - Production and Operations Management Society. She also leads the regional research project in Humanitarian logistics and relief operations of the MIT SCALE Latin America Network. Since 2011, shehas participated in research and consulting projects on humanitarian logistics and disaster operations management. She has co-authored various papers published in journals, books, and conference proceedings. She teaches and researches Industrial/ Production Engineering, focusing on humanitarian operations management.
Sandro Alberto Paz Collado is a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of South Florida. Former Director of Evaluation and Accreditation of Universities at SINEACE (Peruvian accreditation body). Industrial Engineering Program Director at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú – PUCP. General Coordinator of Continuous Improvement and Accreditation at School of Science and Engineering - PUCP, for the accreditation of its programs with CEAB (Canada), ABET (USA) and ICACIT (Perú). Researcher, consultant and instructor on topics such as quality management, statistical process control, data mining, simulation, and optimization.
Miguel Domingo Gonzalez Alvarez is a Professor of the Engineering Department of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). Industrial Engineer from PUCP, Master and Doctor in Industrial Engineering from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He was the Director of the Center for Development and Innovation of PUCP. He was president and founder of Peruvian Association of Incubators (PERUINCUBA). He was former Head of Engineering Department of PUCP and president of the Latin American Association for Technology Management (ALTEC). His current research interests are innovation and operations management, interorganizational planning, innovation and entrepreneurial systems. He is Vice President for Administration of PUCP.
Dr. Carlos A. Gonzalez-Calderon is an Associate Professor of Transportation Engineering at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia at Medellin. He has strong theoretical foundations and practical experience in transportation. His research interests are: freight transportation, freight modeling and economics, sustainable transportation systems, and transportation planning. He worked as an Assistant Professor of Transportation Engineering at the Universidad de Antioquia in Colombia from 2006 to 2009 and as a Research Associate at the Center for Infrastructure, Transportation, and the Environment and at the Volvo Research and Educational Foundation’s Center of Excellence for Sustainable Urban Freight Systems at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute after obtaining his Ph.D. Dr. Gonzalez-Calderon has played a role in multiple research projects funded by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Transportation, the National Cooperative Freight Research Program, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, among others. He has been involved in important signature projects such as NCFRP 25 (Freight Trip Generation and land use), NCFRP 26 (Freight Cost Data Elements), NCFRP 38 (Impro
