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Randy Martin
Director of Global Emergency Operations, Mercy Corps

Speed and Agility Versus Cost
Disruption Management
46 minutes, 21.4mb, recorded 2005-09-08
Topics: Human Rights
Image caption: Randy Martin
Randy Martin

Randy Martin is the director of Global Emergency Operations at Mercy Corps USA and has been in the business of humanitarian disaster relief for 25 years. He took part last September in a special gathering convened by the Stanford Graduate School of Business that brought together corporate supply chain champions and humanitarian logistics heroes.

In this program, he explains how a light organization such as Mercy Corps puts together efficient response teams and sends them off to world crisis theaters in record time. He shares the supply chain lessons he learned over the years while moving relief materials and donations to communities in need throughout the world.


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Randy Martin has been engaged in international work for over 25 years, serving in senior management positions in the field and at headquarters.

He has lived and worked in Egypt, Sudan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the Pacific, and has traveled widely, providing oversight to relief operations and rehabilitation programs in Africa, Asia, the Caucasus,and the Balkans.

Martin has lectured and published on topical humanitarian issues ranging from peace in Sudan and the politics of refugees in Pakistan to the challenges of providing security for humanitarian aid workers.

Resources:

  • Other suggested readings from the Stanford Graduate School of Business library.
  • More events from the Center for Social Innovation.

This program is from our Disruption Management series.

For The Conversations Network:

  • Post-production audio engineer: Sheela Sethuraman
  • Website editor: Marguerite Rigoglioso