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Supply Chain & Logistics Education: Ask the Professors

The Logistics Academy

Other ways we support experiential learning include hosting external student case competitions, touring logistics facilities, and attending industry conferences. Prokop: UAA degrees are conferred in global logistics and supply chain management. And students have to be able to speak at least two languages before they can graduate.

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From civil engineering to civil conflict: Portrait of an aid boss

World Food Programme Logistics

World Food Programme (WFP) Director of Supply Chain Jakob Kern reflects on the challenges and triumphs of working in the world’s most heated crises A civil engineer, Jakob Kern has been on humanitarian assignments in Eritrea, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Italy and Syria. On the opposite end of the Supply Chain chain, is retail.