Mark was most recently in Mogadishu, running data and analytics for the UN’s food voucher program in Somalia, essentially the UN’s version of American food stamps or SNAP. The UN was responding to the worst drought in decades. In September 2024, Mark will start as an assistant professor of supply chain management at the Rutgers business school in Camden, New Jersey. Mark was born and raised in New Jersey. Camden is among America’s most disadvantaged cities. At Rutgers, he will build a research agenda that helps government deliver policy and industry expand access to opportunity. Before this, Mark was a fellow at MIT. He was also a visiting scholar at the US Naval War College, teaching and researching disaster response logistics, and was a research fellow with the Boston’s public ambulance service, supporting decision making around COVID and car crash prevention. As a PhD student at MIT, he worked on initiatives for federal agencies and philanthropies, including with the US Agency for International Development to improve effectiveness of its food aid programs; the Federal Emergency Management Agency to develop a guide for town planners on disaster-housing programs; and a Community Jameel study about supply chain challenges that vital but small retailers face in Africa’s arid Sahel region. A 2014 Mitchell Scholar, Mark received a M.Sc. in Mathematical Modelling from the University of Limerick. UL hosts an interdisciplinary, industrially focused mathematics department, which motivated him to continue applied work at MIT and now Rutgers. Mark grew up just outside of New Brunswick, NJ, with which the City of Limerick has a long-standing twin-city agreement. He got to know both cities through involvement with their public programs, and has learned about their common policy challenges and successes in areas like economic development. Mark obtained his undergraduate degree from Johns Hopkins University.