Ed Blagden

Country Experience: Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia.

Ed is a specialist in international logistics and supply chain management. He has over 30 years’ professional experience, including 20 years working exclusively in low-income countries and fragile states.

Ed’s experience includes many years in senior leadership roles in the private sector, in low-income countries across Africa, including running a 3PL, a manufacturing business, a multi-modal transport business and a freight forwarder. Since 2014, he has been located in the UK and now runs the Oxfam Supply Centre, supplying specialist WASH equipment to both Oxfam programmes and other NGOs.

Ed received a BSc (Hons) in Physics from the University of Southampton in 1988 and qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant with CIMA in 1993.