Professor Prem Chhetri
Chairperson
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. He has received many prestigious awards including the 2016 RMIT College of Business Excellence Award for Innovative Research Supervision.
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 key EU research projects on weather impacts on transport systems. He is currently in the Quality Assurance Panel on NOVELOG funded through EU Horizon2020.
Professor Paul Tae-Woo Lee
Secretary General
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. He holds a PhD from Cardiff University, UK, and was a visiting scholar at Cambridge University and others worldwide.
His research interests include maritime transport and logistics and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). He has published over 300 papers and 8 books, and edits several special journal issues. He has been active in major international maritime economics associations since 1992.
Professor Lee is a founding member of multiple research networks on logistics and the Belt and Road Initiative and serves as associate editor and book editor for leading academic publications.
Zhong Zhen Yang
Academic Affairs Leader
(Research and Training)
Zhong Zhen Yang is Professor at Faculty of Maritime and Transportation, Ningbo University, and editorial board member of journals such as Transport Policy and Maritime Economics and Logistics.
He has published 200 journal papers with extensive citations and his research covers land-use and transportation modeling, maritime economics, shipping network design, port operations, and urban logistics.
He leads key projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China focused on traffic demand, urban sustainability, and port logistics optimization.
Naima Saeed
Network Coordinator
(Events, Newsletter and Communication)
Naima Saeed is Professor in Supply Chain Management at the University of Agder, with visiting scholar experience at multiple global universities including RMIT and University of California, Berkeley.
She holds a PhD in Logistics, specializing in Maritime Economics, and has published extensively in top international journals. She has received awards for research excellence and has served as a reviewer and project lead on EU-funded initiatives.
Naima has also contributed to developing distance-learning courses and served on Norwegian committees for research methods education.