Tariq Anwar

Humanitarian logistics specialist who has coordinated disaster response operations in 18 countries over 15 years. MSc in humanitarian engineering from Loughborough University. Born in Lahore, first deployed as a volunteer during the 2005 Kashmir earthquake at age 20 — carried medical supplies across a collapsed bridge and decided this was what he'd do with his life. Has managed supply chains for Médecins Sans Frontières, the Red Cross, and the World Food Programme. Writes about disaster response, humanitarian logistics, why aid delivery is harder than anyone thinks, the last-mile problem in crisis zones, and what the aid industry gets wrong about local capacity. Known for a piece comparing Amazon's logistics to humanitarian supply chains that exposed the absurd funding gap. Currently heads a rapid response unit that can deploy anywhere in 48 hours. Practices calligraphy in Urdu to decompress and says the precision translates directly to logistics planning.