Karen Spens is the president of BI Norwegian Business School. She received her PhD from Hanken School of Economics in 2001 and became Professor of Supply Chain Management and Corporate Geography in 2007. She has since held several administrative positions at Hanken and in 2015 became the Rector of Hanken. She has mainly taught Supply Chain Management and has primarily published in the field of Humanitarian Logistics. Watch Karen Spens’ full interview with Stellar Woman Magazine below: So who is Karen Spens? What’s your backstory?Thanks for inviting me. It’s my pleasure to be here today. One important thing women need to do when trying to move forward is to be daring enough to take on a new challenge. I was bold enough to leave my native land; Finland and move to Norway. I am a Finnish citizen. I lived in Finland most of my life. So naturally, moving to Norway was a truly exciting but also a daunting prospect. I however had the experience. I was a Rector of Hanken School of Economics in Finland. And before that, I was the Dean of education. I had gained expertise in teaching and learning and dealing with students which of course made it easy to make the decision of moving to BI. BI as you may be aware is a very prestigious and large institution of learning. I received my Ph.D. from Hanken in 2001 and I wrote extensively about healthcare logistics. I became the professor of supply chain management and corporate geography in 2007. At that time not many people wrote about logistics but I wanted to do something different. I love research but I always prefer that it has impact on people, business and society; which explains why I worked from a healthcare perspective. So for the past 15 years, I’ve worked with humanitarian logistics or disaster…
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