Nadina Busuioc is a Senior Director for Data Science and Analytics, who leads Procter & Gamble’s (P&G’s) Global Supply Chain Resilience Program out of the company’s Innovation Centre in Brussels, Belgium. She has a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the “Politehnica” University of Bucharest and has specialized during the past 14 years in developing Advanced Analytics models and applying Operations Research techniques to solve real-world problems for some of the most complex supply chains in the world.

In her current role in P&G she leads the company’s recently formed Supply Chain Resilience Data Science program. She defines the strategy for how to use Data and Advanced Models to mitigate disruption effects on supply chains and to reduce the time to recover when disruptions hit. She finds, forms and coaches top Data Scientists to develop and apply the most innovative approaches, methods and models from academia and industry to improve the performance of supply chains under disruption – across Business Units and Geographies, addressing supply disruptions and demand surges. She leads a similar Data Science team for the European supply chains, that focuses on optimizing ongoing supply network design and operations.

Nadina had an international exposure having lived and worked for longer or shorter times in Romania, Belgium, and Panama and has developed a professional network after attending and speaking at several conferences and tech events in the past years: webSummit, Slush, Internet of Supply Chain, World Summit AI, European OR Conference, DLD Europe, etc.

In 2017 Nadina has successfully completed the Aspen Young Leaders Program in Romania and founded, together with four Aspen Fellows, City Fabric, a social non-profit start-up initiative in Romania. The initiative aimed to improve the fabric of Romanian cities by applying mathematical models and algorithms that companies already use for the optimization of consumer goods transportation, to reduce urban traffic congestion. The team participated in one of the biggest tech hackathons in Romania (Innovation Labs) and has developed partnership potential with international companies looking to expand their footprint in the area of Smart Cities in Romania (Continental, Orange, ORTEC). Even if the idea was put on stand-by, Nadina retains her personal passion for using data and algorithms to improve the fabric of European cities: she frequently attends Smart City conferences and meetups in Europe and dives into the academic research available in the field. She is continuously looking for knowledge exchange, coaching and inspiration from similar initiatives around the world, to build a relevant professional network in the domain of Smart Cities and Transportation/Mobility and be as successful in such social initiatives as she is in her professional life.