Claire Louise Travers is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Supply Chain Management at OSCAR.  She is ABD for a PhD in Supply Chain Management and Social Responsibility from the Hanken School of Economics at the HUMLOG Institute and holds a double Masters in International Humanitarian Management. Her research is on the humanitarian sector, including on purchasing and supply management in emergencies, local procurement for sustainable development, and pandemic response modalities. She is interested in sustainable supply chain management practices, purchasing and supply management as complex adaptive systems, and innovation in developing economies.  

Claire’s work has been published in International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, and in books including the Handbook on Humanitarian Supply Chain Management. She is VP for Communications on the Board of of EURO-Hope working group on Humanitarian Operations. Claire has received the 2020 Safer Complex Systems independent researcher grant from the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Lloyds Register, and doctoral grants from Liikesivistysrahasto myöntää apurahaa kauppatieteeliseen tutkimukseen, the Alfred Kordelin Foundation and the Auramo Foundation. Claire has a decade of experience as an evaluation consultant in humanitarian contexts, with deployments to the Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Bangladesh, Pacific Islands, Jordan, Malawi, West Africa, Nepal, and Madagascar. In 2021, Claire Louise Travers founded the Local Procurement Learning Partnership, now housed at the Humanitarian Logistics Association. Claire has worked with the UNFPA, UNOCHA, UNIOM, IFRC and the Finnish Red Cross, and maintains a deployable humanitarian profile.