Douglas Alem

Douglas Alem is a Senior Lecturer in Business Analytics at The University of Edinburgh Business School. He serves as Programme Director for the MSc Data & Decision Analytics (online) programme. His research interests focus on practical operations planning problems in humanitarian logistics, particularly in post-disaster scenarios. He explores challenges such as emergency commodity distribution, location-allocation under social concerns, and supply chain design for disaster management. His work involves optimisation under uncertainty, including stochastic programming and robust optimisation, with an emphasis on contextualising new problems, formulating models, and analysing results from a disaster management perspective.

Douglas Alem is a Senior Lecturer in Business Analytics at the University of Edinburgh, specializing in operations research and management within relief supply chains. His research focuses on optimizing logistics planning, production planning, and risk management in humanitarian and disaster relief contexts. Alem's work integrates stochastic and robust optimization techniques to address challenges in emergency logistics, including vehicle routing, location-transportation models, and multi-agency coordination. His publications explore the application of mathematical modeling to enhance disaster preparedness, equitable resource distribution, and sustainable supply chain practices. Alem's research emphasizes the integration of social concerns and risk mitigation strategies in complex supply chain systems.