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Alessio Tei, Section Editor
Dr Alessio Tei, Ph.D. on Logistics, Transport, and Territory at the Italian Centre of Excellence for Integrated Logistics, Genoa.
Currently he’s working at the Department of Economics of the University of Genoa as Post-Doc researcher. During his PhD
he was a visiting researcher at the Department of Transport and Regional Economics of University of Antwerp. His scientific
research is mainly focused on transport economics and on the effects of transport on environment. During the PhD he
was enrolled in some consultancy works on port efficiency and on transport planning. He is author of several contributions
published in academic journals and books, and he is also a reviews for both national and international journals, such as
Maritime Policy & Management, International Journal of Transport Economics and Research in Transportation Business and Management.
He is a member of the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME) and of the World Conference on Transport Research
Society (WCTRs). He’s been involved as a member of the local organizing committee of the IAME 2013 Conference. He’s currently
working on two main research fields about the impact of concession policy on port efficiency and the impact of transport infrastructure on
the local development.
Emrah Bulut, Section Associate Editor
Dr Emrah Bulut is an Assistant Professor at Department of Business Administration of Yıldız Technical University and received
his PhD. from Kobe University, Japan. His research interests are in Shipping Business Management and Economics, and he
also study on the field of Behavioral Decision Making. He contributes several studies related to the market entry-exit time
on shipping, shipping investment strategy decision and ship valuation. He proposes and improves some methods for the
decision support systems, group decision making under uncertainty, and fuzzy time series forecasting. He has published
several journal and conference papers. He has memberships of the American Finance Association (AFA), International
Association of Maritime Economics (IAME) and Korean Association of Shipping and Logistics (KASL). He also reviews papers for, Transport
Policy (JTRP), Asian Journal of Shipping & Logistics (AJSL), European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR), and Fuzzy sets and systems
(FSS), Transport Research Part D.
Vicky Kaselimi, Section Associate Editor
Dr Evangelia (Vicky) Kaselimi is a port economist at the Hellenic Ministry of Shipping and Aegean. For almost a decade, she
has been working in the General Secretariat of Ports, Port Policy & Maritime Investments responsible for the supervision
and the coordination of Greek Port Authorities on economic, organizational and administrative issues. She obtained her
Ph.D. in 2013 from the applied economics department, Antwerp University. The project was funded via scholarship from
the Hellenic State Scholarships Foundation (IKY). Since June 2014, Vicky has become a supervisor at the unit of internal
audit, an independent consulting activity directly referred to the Minister of Shipping and Aegean. Her scientific interests
concentrate on port economics and policy. Part of her research has been published in international scientific journals and has been presented in
numerous international scientific conferences. She is a founding member of PortEconomics.eu.

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Jasmine Siu Lee Lam, Section Editor

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Dr Jasmine Siu Lee LAM is currently an Assistant Professor and Director of MSc Maritime Studies Programme at Nanyang
Technological University in Singapore. Dr Lam’s major research and teaching areas are maritime studies, logistics, supply
chain management, and transport economics. Dr Lam has extensive experience in executive training and has been invited
by various organizations such as Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, NOL, port authorities and
banks as a speaker at international conferences and seminars. Leading a R&D team and working closely with the industry and
government agencies, Dr Lam has completed over 38 projects and has widely published in leading international journals.
She is the Associate Editor of Maritime Policy & Management (a flagship journal of maritime research) and a member of the editorial board
of Journal of Supply Chain Management (among the top international journal