CPSP Mary Amingá, MKISM, PhD is an advocate of the circular economy, a licensed supplies practitioner and an experienced researcher and trainer with 11 years of experience in management science and supply chain management. Mary has expertise in circular economy, among the first cohort of the European Union Circular Economy fellowship ran by the McArthur Foundation, sustainable and resilient supply chains, project management, and monitoring and evaluation. She is a faculty and first academic program-lead for the Bachelor of Science in Supply Chain and Operations Management program at Strathmore University. Mary spearheaded the development of a Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain and Operations Management and a Diploma in Procurement for Strathmore University among other initiatives including student led platforms for advancing supply chains for generations and generations.

On the flip side of academia, she is a resource person and examiner with the Kenya Institute of Supplies Examination Board and as a monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning lead with the Sisters Blended Value Project on consultant basis. She has been involved on consultancy and advisory on multiple projects on designing circular economy and reverse logistics strategies in various sectors, currently for tarpaulins. She has previously worked as a supply chain assistant under the trainee docket with the office of the President, Ministry of Security and Internal Administration-Kenya, as a data resource and quality streamlining of assessments in the Management University of Africa and the Kenya Institute of Management and as a procurement finance assistant with the Kenya Power and Lighting company. Her areas of interest span emergent ecologies and their convergence with supply chain, project management, industry 4.0-5.0, and operations research. She has authored pieces on circular economy with a bias toward higher learning supply chains, building resilience, and sustainable supply chains published in Springer and Taylor and Francis. She is also a reviewer with the Journal of Cleaner Production among other journals.

Mary has been awarded a mobility grant under Erasmus+ Mobility grants to conduct lectures at the University of Marbor on managing supply chains for the future and rethinking supply chain management for the circular economy. She is also a part of the young scholars selected for the Africa Supply Chain Network Accelerator powered by Arizona State University and Centre for Applied Research and Innovation in Supply Chain-Africa. She has been selected on speaking engagements on the interractions of sustainability and society, and circular economy, industrial symbiosis, resilience and supply chain management such as teh World Circular Economy Economic Forum, Nairobi Annual Health Scientific Conference, DANKE TALKS, Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supplies among others.

Mary holds a B.com (Management Science and Quantitative Methods) from Egerton University and an M.com (Management Science and Operations Management) from Strathmore University. Mary also has level IV Certified Procurement and Supplies Profession-Kenya and level IV Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supplies (UK). She is a PhD holder in Logistics and Supply Chain Management from Strathmore University with a focus on the anthropogenic circularity science and resilience. Her findings reveal the importance of transitioning from a triple bottom line to a quadruple bottom-line where she recommends to managers and policy makers on the importance of building both supply chain resilience and sustainability using green and closed-loop supply chains while considering circular economy. Here she proposes that economies can adopt trade-offs as starting points as achieving the quadruple bottom line seems unrealistic on the short term.

Mary has training in the Circular economy, from linear to Circular, with the MacArthur Foundation, Structural Equation Modelling with the University of St. Gallens, Switzerland, Project Management Profession training with Strathmore University, logistical courses in Humanitarian and logistical 4.0 with Kuhne Foundation, redesigning the supply chain for resilience with the Kuhne Logistics University and Public Procurement, Law Policy and Practice with Stellenbosch University. Mary is also the brain behind the supply chain disruption week of Strathmore University, an annual event as a reminder of the lessons of COVID-19 to build stable yet resilient supply chains.