Committees
Host:
Ricardo Sánchez, UNECLAC, Santiago, Chile
Conference Chair:
Dr. Gordon Wilmsmeier, UNECLAC, Santiago de Chile and Transport Research Institute (TRI), Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom (external member)
Chairman International Steering Committee:
Prof. Kevin Cullinane, Transport Research Institute (TRI), Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom
Co-organiser:
Prof. Theo Notteboom, ITMMA, Antwerp, Belgium - Sponsoring and Industry Relations
Local organising committee:
Yakov Boglev, TRI, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Gabriel Perez, UNECLAC, Santiago, Chile
Maricel Ulloa, UNECLAC, Santiago, Chile
International steering committee
Chairman: Prof. Kevin Cullinane, Director and Professor Transport Research Institute (TRI), Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom
Members (alphabetical order):
Dr. Mary Brooks, William A. Black Chair of Commerce, Dalhousie University, Canada
Dr. Stephen Cahoon, Head, Department of Maritime and Logistics Management, Australian Maritime College, Australia
Dr. Pierre Cariou, Associate Professor, EUROMED Management, France
Dr. Ana Casaca, Technical Director, ESPRIM, Portugal
José I. Castillo-Manzano, Assistant professor at the University of Seville, Spain
Prof. Dr. A. Güldem Cerit, Dean, Dokuz Eylül University Maritime Faculty, Turkey
Prof. YT Chang, Professor, Graduate School of Logistics and Founding Secretary‐General, Global U8 Consortium Inha University, Korea
Dr. Pablo Coto-Millán, Full time Professor, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
Dr. Fernando Gonzalez‐Laxe, University Professor (At present, President of the Spanish Public Entity Ports of the State), University of La Coruña, Spain
Prof. Hercules E. Haralambides, Chair and Director, Center for Maritime Economics and Logistics (MEL), Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
Dr. Jan Hoffmann, Chief, Trade Facilitation Section, TLB, DTL, UNCTAD, Switzerland
Dr. Akio Imai, Professor, Graduate School of Maritime Sciences, Kobe University, Japan
Prof. Arne Jensen, Professor of transport economics, University of Gothenburg, Department of Business Administration, Sweden
Prof. Manolis Kavussanos, Director MSc/PhD program in Accounting and Finance Athens, University of Economics and Business, Greece
Dr. Shashi Kumar, DEAN/Asst. Supt. for Academic Affairs, United States Merchant Marine Academy, United States
Prof. Paul Lee, Professor, Department of Logistics and Shipping Management, and Director, Shipping, Port and Logistics Research Center Kainan University, Taiwan
Prof. Chin‐Shan Lu, Professor at NCKU and Chairman of CMRI Department of Transportation and Communication Management Science, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan and Chinese Maritime Research Institute (CMRI), Taipei, Taiwan
Prof. Jing Lu, Dean, Transportation Management College of Dalian Maritime University, China
Dr. Heather McLaughlin, Faculty of Business and Management, Canterbury Christ Church University, United Kingdom
Prof. Daniel Moon, Head, Shipping and Port Specialisation, World Maritime University, Sweden
Prof. Enrico Musso, Full Professor in Applied Economics, University of Genova and Chairman, Italian Society of Transport Economics, Italy
Prof. Theo Notteboom, President, ITMMA - University of Antwerp, Belgium
Dr. Athanasios Pallis, Assistant Professor, Department of Shipping, Trade and Transport, University of the Aegean, Greece
Dr. Photis Panayides, Associate Professor in Shipping Economics, Department of Commerce, Finance and Shipping, Faculty of Management and Economics, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
Prof. Dr. Thomas Pawlik, Dean of Studies / Bremer Rhederverein Chair of Maritime Management Hochschule Bremen / Centre of Maritime Studies, Germany
Prof. Siri Pettersen Strandenes, Professor, Norwegian School of Economics and Busines Administration, Norway
Prof. Ross Robinson, Professor Maritime and Logistics Management, Australian Maritime College, The University of Tasmania, Australia
Ricardo J. Sánchez, Senior Economist, UNECLAC, Chile
Dr Dong-Wook Song, Reader in Logistics, Logistics Research Centre, School of Management and Languages, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom
Dr. Lourdes Trujillo, Professor, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Dr. Ilias Visvikis, Assistant Professor of Finance Director, MBA in Shipping ‐ Accredited by AMBA Director (Greece), MSc International Shipping and Finance ALBA Graduate Business School, Greece
Dr. Stefan Voss, Director of the Institute of Information Systems, Universität Hamburg Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik / Institute of Information Systems, Germany
Dr. Gordon Wilmsmeier, Principal Research Fellow, Transport Research Institute, Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom



