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Miss Yanfang Ai
PhD Student

Summary

Yanfang is a Visiting Researcher at the Brunel University London with the College of Business, Arts and Social Science. She is pursuing Ph.D degree at Xi'an Jiaotong University (China) and her major is Management Science and Engineering. Yanfang has a Msc. in Management Science and Engineering and a Bsc. in Information Management and Information System.

She is interested in pre-positioning and procurement strategies of relief supplies and hopes to discover more efficient procedures to enhance capacity of relief supplies in the event of major disasters. Yanfang has participated in the 16th-18th Conferences of the Chinese Society of Emergency Management, Asia Emergency Management Conference (Macao) and made academic presentations. 

She participates in a research project which is titled 'Incentive Mechanisms for Entrusting Storage of Relief Supplies. The project aims to analyze the operation mechanism of the logistics system under the government-led, government-enterprise cooperation, outsourcing and integrated platform modes, coordinate the supply chain of relief supplies and ensure that each participant has the incentive to participate in procurement agreement to satisfy the public's demand for the quantity, variety, quality, and timeliness of the relief supplies under the conditions of sudden disasters.