People Profile
As a scholar of logistics and supply chain management, Dominic Essuman studies supply chain disruptions and resilience capabilities. These are topics he is familiar with from his own personal experience.
Dominic Essuman with his mother after graduating with his PhD degree
Dominic Essuman seems to have had a drive for education from his earliest years, although he was unaware of it, and…
Adeline Angkosaala has always aspired to pursue higher education. Among the many obstacles she overcame to realize her dream was a planned arranged marriage at age 15.
Sherwat Elwan Ibrahim, a member of CARISCA’s Academic Board, announces Adeline Angkosaala as first runner up in CARISCA’s 2022 PhD Dissertation Awards Competition.
When CARISCA director and KNUST Business School Dean…
Many people take a lifetime to understand what really matters in life. Yussif Iddrisu learned it early. “My own perception of success is, you have the ability to help somebody grow,” says Iddrisu, sales and marketing manager for Kasima, an agricultural supply chain company. “That is where inner peace lies.”
Yussif Iddrisu at his 2022 graduation
Iddrisu graduated from KNUST in…
From the first time Zakaria El Hathat was introduced to computers as an elementary school student in Morocco, he saw them as “machines of wonder.” In secondary school, he began exploring the internet and the world of programming. “It was very easy for me to learn new programming languages, discover the world of information technology,” says El Hathat. “I didn’t find it hard, to be honest,…
Kelvinne Mocke says winning the Dissertation Award at last year’s Supply Chain Research Summit was a nice morale booster in his long journey toward a PhD. Read about his study on resource orchestration and how the chicken joke fits in.The winner of the 2022 PhD Dissertation Award competition, Kelvinne Mocke, has a lot in common with the 2021 winner, Assilah Agigi. Both study supply chain…
“Fish and chicken” is a nickname that may follow David Antwi for the entirety of his career. But he is OK with that. He has a ready comeback for fellow Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology students and faculty who call him “fish and chicken professor.” “By the end of the day,” he tells them, “you are likely to have eaten one or both proteins.” Research shows, after all,…