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Gail Neudorf is the Emergency Coordinator for CARE Canada. In front of government, humanitarian relief agency and corporate representatives gathered at Stanford by the Stanford Graduate School of Business for the September 2005 Effective Disruption Management Seminar, she explains some of the challenges and issues of humanitarian disaster relief operations and offers her thoughts about the reasons why humanitarian supply chains may not have reached quite the same level of sophistication as their counterparts in the corporate world.
Gail Neudorf joined CARE in 1992 and has recently taken the position of Emergency Coordinator, Emergency Team with CARE Canada. She has been working in emergency response for more than 15 years, starting in Mozambique with Oxfam UK in 1986. She has worked with CARE in Eastern Africa (Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania) as well as in Zambia, Sri Lanka and East Timor. These positions focused on refugee and IDP project management, culminating in Country Director positions in East Timor (CARE Canada) and Serbia; Montenegro (IRC) as well as Deputy Director for CARE USA's Emergency Unit.
Gail has also worked in private business in IT project management for KPMG, Emirates Airlines and AGENCY.COM. She has also taught undergraduate International Business in Cambodia. Her undergraduate degree is from Trinity Western University and her MBA from the University of Leicester in the UK. Gail was born and raised in western Canada and now resides in Ottawa.
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