Carsten Hansen

Carsten Hansen is a Visiting Research Fellow at Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University (UK), since 2016. He has over 20 years of professional experience in sourcing and risk management within complex business and security environments, primarily with the United Nations. His roles include managing procurement operations in Lebanon and Somalia, and analyzing humanitarian supply chains in UN Peacekeeping missions such as UNIKOM (Iraq) and UNPROFOR (Bosnia and Herzegovina).

Carsten holds a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA), an MBA (USA), and two Masters of Arts: one in International Affairs (Denmark) and another in Conflict Analysis and Security Studies (UK). He also earned an advanced Post Graduate Diploma in Middle Eastern Studies. Professional certifications include the Canadian Risk Management Designation (University of Toronto), PRINCE2 Project Management, International Human Resource Management Accreditation (Cornell University), and Chartered Institute for Purchasing and Supply (MCIPS) membership.

His research focuses on Supply Chain Risk Management, Sourcing Strategies, and Political Risk Management, with emphasis on offshore outsourcing industries, public procurement systems, and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) activities. Key themes include evaluating political risk's impact on service offshoring decisions and modeling institutional factors influencing high-knowledge outsourcing. He integrates Transaction Cost Economics frameworks to analyze offshoring strategies, emphasizing empirical approaches like regression analysis to quantify risk variables.

Carsten collaborates with institutions such as Portland State University (via co-authorship with Mena and Aktas) and has published in journals like International Journal of Production Research and Journal of Business Research. His work highlights the importance of host-country regulatory frameworks for attracting knowledge-intensive offshoring investments.