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THEMARITIME Economist

Editorial Board

Okan Duru, Section Associate Editor
Dr Okan Duru is an Assistant Professor of Maritime Finance and Logistics at Department of Maritime Administration, Texas
A&M University at Galveston as well as Visiting Scholar at Kobe University. He received his PhD from Kobe University, Japan.
His research interests are in shipping asset management, behavioral economics of shipping business, forecasting, judgment
and decision making. He has published many journal papers and conference papers as well as editing journal issues. He
reviewed several papers for Maritime Policy and Management, International Journal of Forecasting, Transportation Research
Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, European Journal of Operational
Research, Journal of the Operational Research Society-JORS, Applied Soft Computing, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, International Journal of
Fuzzy Systems, among others.
Rosa Guadalupe González Ramírez, Section Associate Editor
Dr Rosa Guadalupe González Ramírez is a professor and researcher at the Industrial Engineering School of the Pontificia
Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Chile. She holds a bachelor degree in Industrial Engineering from the Technologic
Institute of Morelia, a Master in Industrial Engineering from Arizona State University, a Master in Quality and Productivity
Systems and a PhD in Engineering Sciences from Monterrey Tech (Mexico). She is currently part of the National Research
System in Mexico. Her research areas are related to supply chain management and port logistics, including optimization
models and algorithms, as well as trade facilitation, competitiveness studies and sustainability issues including social corporate
responsibility and port-city relationships. Other research areas include supply chain network design, districting and territory design, lot
sizing, metaheuristics and mathematical programming. She has been working in the previous 5 years in applied research projects with
several grants from the Chilean government.

Memories
Paul T.W. Lee, Section Editor
Professor Paul Tae-Woo Lee holds PhD from Cardiff University in UK. He is currently Fulltime Invited Professor,
Department of Business Administration and Director of Sustainable Business Research Lab at Soochow University, Taipei.
Paul was Visiting Professor at, among others, the Faculty of Economics and Politics in Cambridge, University of Plymouth,
Dalian Maritime University, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and Chulalongkorn University including MPA Visiting
Professor. He was a founding member of Asian Logistics Round Table (2007) and served IAME as council member, Secretary
and co-opt vice-president. He was also guest editor or co-guest editor of MPM, IJSTL, and International Journal of Logistics:
Research and Applications, and Growth and Change. He contributed to Lloyd’s List for 1997-2001 as a monthly columnist. Professor Lee,
as advisor or committee member or consultant, participated in developing and setting up shipping, port and logistics polices and strategies
for several countries. He addressed keynote speeches at APEC, AANZFTA and UNDP workshops, and international conferences.

Dr Zaili Yang is Professor of Maritime Transport at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), UK. Prior to his current
appointment, he was Reader in Maritime Transport (2010-2014) and a lecturer in Maritime Operations (2007-2010) at the
School of Engineering, Technology and Maritime Operations, LJMU. He received his BEng in Maritime Transportation from
Dalian Maritime University, China, in 2001, MSc in International Transport from Cardiff University, UK, in 2003, and PhD
in Maritime Safety from LJMU, UK, in 2006. Dr Yang’s research interests are system safety, security and risk based decision
making modelling, especially their applications in marine and supply chain systems. Dr Yang has received more than £1.5m
external grants (£1m as the PI) from the EU, UK EPSRC and UK DTI to support his research. Research funding support has also been
received from government collaborators (i.e. UK MoD and Korean research collaborative funds) via PhD research projects. Dr Yang has
successfully completed 4 postdoctoral and 11 PhD projects. He currently has 11 PhD students under his supervision in the research areas
of maritime safety, logistics operation and port optimisation. His research findings have been published in more than 100 technical papers
in risk and supply chain areas, including 50 refereed journal papers. Dr Yang is a member of editorial boards of seven international journals
such as JMM and AJSL. He has also served as a member of review boards for national research councils of some EU countries such as
Norway and Romania. and international conferences.

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Zaili Yang, Section Associate Editor

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