Prem Chhetri is Professor of logistics and supply chain management at RMIT University in Australia. He was Director of Global Supply Chain and logistics Research Priority Area, Deputy Head for Industry Engagement at RMIT and Program Director for Open Australia Universities.

Prem is known internationally for the research in spatially-integrated logistics and supply chain analytics. His recent research focused on supply chain complexity, port and maritime logistics, urban freight, emergency response, skills and training, and the application of GIS and GPS in transport, infrastructure and logistics planning.

Prem has received a number of Australian Research Council and federal and state government grants to study emergency planning, maritime security, logistics clusters, innovation and growth, and climate change and port logistics. Prem has received the 2016 RMIT College of Business Excellence Award for Innovative Research Supervision, RMIT University 2013 Research Excellence Award, NIGLAS Chinese Academy of Sciences Fellowship 2013, the RMIT 2009 Learning and Teaching Award, The Pope John Paul Fellowship, the University Grant Commission Fellowship, Government of India and the EU Visiting Professorship at Hull Institute of Logistics, Fraunhofer Institute, Karlsruhe and Hellenic Institute of Transport, Greece.

Prem has been a member in the international panel of experts on the 7th RTD Framework Program of the European Commission and a contributor to two key research projects WEATHER (Weather Extremes – Impacts on Transport Systems and Hazards for European Regions) and MOWE-IT (Management of Weather Extremes on Transport Systems). He is currently in the Quality Assurance Panel on NOVELOG funded through the EU Horizone2020.

Paul Tae-Woo Lee is a Professor of maritime transport and logistics and Director of Maritime Logistics and Free Trade Islands Research Center at Ocean College, Zhejiang University. Professor Lee holds a PhD from Cardiff University in UK. He was Visiting Scholar at Faculty of Economics and Politics in University of Cambridge in UK, including eight universities around the world.

His research interests include maritime transport and logistics, and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) issues. He is also a regular speaker at international conferences. In particular, since the inception of the BRI in 2013, he was invited to international conferences, fora and seminars on the BRI around the world as a well-known speaker. Paul has published eight books and more than 300 journal and conference papers, and edited 30 special issues of distinguished international journals, including 12 issues regarding the BRI studies. He is currently Associate Editor of Transportation Research Part E and Journal of Shipping and Trade, Book Editor of Elsevier’s China Transportation Series and Book Editor of Anthem Book Series of Supply Chain Management, Maritime Transport and Logistics.

Professor Lee served International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME) since 1992 as Co-opt Vice President, Secretary of IAME, and Council membership. He is a founding member of Asian Logistics Round Table (2007), Yangtze River Research Innovation and Belt (Y-RIB, 2017), Belt and Road Initiative – International Collaboration Network (BRI-ICN, 2016), and a founding member of Global Research Network-BRI (GRN, 2021).

Zhong Zhen YANG, Professor, Faculty of Maritime and transportation, Ningbo University. Editorial board member of international journals of Transport Policy, and Maritime Economics and Logistics.

Professor Yang has published 200 journal papers, with 1640 of cumulative citation frequency in WOS database and 21 of H-index, while the highest SCI citation of his single paper is 187 times. The main research fields and academic interests of Prof. Yang are: Land-use and transportation modeling; Maritime economics and management; Transportation demand analyses; Shipping network design; Port terminal operation and scheduling; Urban logistics. The mainly chaired projects from National Natural Science Foundation of China are: Research of spatial distribution of commercial center and its impact on traffic demand; Research of car ownership level for a sustainability urban environment and the policy for reducing traffic emission; Optimization of land use and transportation system in the context of large-scale moving to the rural area; Theory and methodology of managing and controlling port terminal logistics.

Naima Saeed is a Professor in Supply Chain Management at the School of Business and Law at the University of Agder. Saeed was an honorary visiting fellow at La Trobe Business School, Melbourne, Australia, and a visiting scholar at the School of Business IT and Logistics, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, University of California, Berkeley, United States, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan, Nelson Mandela University Business School, South Africa and University of Dar es Salaam Business School, Tanzania.

She has a Ph.D. in Logistics from Molde University College (Norway), with a specialization in Maritime Economics. Saeed has published papers in well-acknowledged international peer-reviewed scientific journals, including the European Journal of Operational Research, Computers in Industry, Transportation Science, Maritime Economics & Logistics, and Maritime Policy & Management.

Saeed received the third best paper award in the port competitiveness and competition session at IAME 2019 conference in Athens, Greece. She has served as a referee for several academic journals. Before joining the University of Agder, Saeed worked as an Associate Professor in Logistics at Molde University College. She has also worked on two European Union projects and was responsible for developing distance-learning courses in Maritime Logistics and Maritime Value Chain. She has also worked as a consultant in a project financed by the VRI program of The Research Council of Norway. Saeed was a member of the Norwegian Association of Higher Education Institutions’ committee for the research methods course (2016-2020).