Keynote Speakers
IFSPA 2008 has the great honour to invite prestigious scholars from Europe and North America acting as our Honorary Keynote Speakers, of which all of them possess repetitive expertise in the fields of Transportation (Maritime and Aviation), Logistics Management and Operations Research. By now, the following prestigious scholars have accepted our invitation in offering Keynote Speeches to the Conference :
Chief
Transport Facilitation Section
Transport and Tourism Division
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia
and the Pacific (UNESCAP), Thailand
Professor of Law, Centre of Air Law
The Civil Aviation Management Institute of China, PRC
Professor, Industrial and Operations Engineering
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Finalist of INFORMS Edelman prize
Professor
Aeronautics and Astronautics and Civil and Environmental
Engineering, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
USA
UPS Foundation Chair Professor in Transport & Logistics
Sauder School of Business
University of British Columbia, Canada
Professor in Transportation
School of Civil Engineering & the Environment
University of Southampton, UK
Editor, Transport Policy
Executive Director, International Maritime,
Ports and Logistics Management Institute
Frederick W. Beazeley Professor in Economics
Eminent Scholar, College of Business and Public Administration
Old Dominion University, USA
Chairman
ECORYS Reseach & Consulting, The
Netherlands
Managing Director
DNV Petroleum Services, Norway
Chief
Transport Facilitation Section
Transport and Tourism Division
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
(UNESCAP), Thailand
Short Biography:
Ms Karandawala joined UNESCAP in 1998 after working with national
government, academia and the maritime industry for 25 years. During this
time she held the position of Corporate Lawyer of the Ceylon Shipping
Corporation; Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, National University
of Singapore; Consultant with UNCTAD, Geneva; Head of Maritime Business
at the Australian Maritime College; and Special Adviser to the Minister
of Shipping and Ports in Sri Lanka. At the Australian Maritime College,
Australia’s national centre for maritime education, Ms Karandawala
served as Chairperson of the Academic Board, a member of the governing
council, and as a director of AMC Search, the consultancy arm of the
college. She has had unique opportunities to engage in the transport
sector in over 25 countries in Asia, and to examine issues from
different perspectives, combining her academic interests with the
day-to-day world of the transport industry. In her current position Ms.
Karandawala is engaged in a programme of work with a focus on integrated
transport development and transport facilitation, including multimodal
transport and logistics. She was the Secretary to the Committee on
Managing Globalization at the ESCAP Commission in 2006, 2007 and 2008.
She is currently the Alternate Secretary to the ESCAP Commission.
Ms Karandawala is a Maritime Lawyer and holds a Bachelor’s degree in law
from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, and a Master’s degree in
Maritime Law from the University of Southampton, United Kingdom.
Professor of Law, Centre of Air Law
The Civil Aviation Management Institute of China, PRC
Short Biography:
Prof Liu Weimin is the Professor of Law in the Centre of Air Law at the Civil Aviation Management Institute of China in Beijing and a visiting professor at Nanjing University of Aeronautic and Astronautics and Civil Aviation Flight University of China, committee member of the China Law Society, the Chinese Society of International Law Society and the Chinese Society of Aeronautic and Astronautics. He is graduated from the Peking Foreign Language University and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences specialising in economic law. In 1996, he was sponsored by the State Graduate Students selected to Study Abroad Fund as a senior visiting scholar to undertake research in aviation law at the University of Montreal. He has worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the PRC, China Embassy of Congo, International Affair of the CAAC, Representative office of the PRC at ICAO Headquarter in Montreal. Since 1989, Prof Liu has been teaching at the Civil Aviation Management Institute of China. Prof Liu has participated in the drafting of the aviation law of the PRC, has handled aviation accidents and claims issues and is an advisor in aviation law. In 2002, he was appointed as an aviation law expert to provide advice in South Korea on the Air China ‘4.15’ accident and claims works. He has many publications relating to aviation law (please refer to the Chinese bio). His research interest focuses on aviation law and air transport policy as well as macro economic trend and civil aviation development strategy.
Professor, Industrial and Operations Engineering
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Finalist of INFORMS Edelman Prize,
Associate Editor, Opsearch
Editorial Advisory Board, Algorithmic Operations Research
E-mail: Katta_Murty@umich.edu
Web: www-personal.umich.edu/~murty/
Short Biography:
Professor Murty received his B.Sc. (Hons) (Statistics) from University of Madras, India in 1955; M.S.(Statistics) from Indian Statistical Institute in 1957; and PhD (OR) from University of California, Berkeley in 1968. He is a Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. His research interests are in Operations Research (Optimization) algorithms and their applications to real world decision making; another in studying human impacts on nature; and another in exercises for good health. He is a Fellow of INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and Management Science), and is the author of many undergraduate and graduate text books used all over the world. Professor Murty has consulted for Motorola, US Army, and other companies; and has worked on developing decision support systems for daily operations at container terminals in Hong Kong and Singapore ports. Currently he is working on web-books in self-learning style for intelligent decision making skills, details in his webpage at: www-personal.umich.edu/~murty/. In his spare time he is growing a native forest on a 12 acre lot in Michigan, USA.
Short Biography:
Amedeo R. Odoni is Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He obtained SB (1965) and SM (1967) degrees in Electrical Engineering and the Ph.D. (1969) in Operations Research, all at MIT. He has served as a member of the MIT faculty since 1969. His interests are in operations research, stochastic processes and decision-making under uncertainty, with applications in air traffic control, airport planning and design, and large-scale urban service systems. Prof. Odoni is Co-Director of the Global Airline Industry Center at MIT. From 1996 to 2002, he served as Co-Director of the FAA’s National Center of Excellence in Aviation Operations Research (NEXTOR). He has also held other leadership positions at MIT and elsewhere, including Co-Director of the Operations Research Center and Editor-in-Chief of Transportation Science. He is the author, co-author or editor of eight books and approximately 100 professional publications. His most recent books are Urban Operations Research (Dynamic Ideas, 2007), with Prof. Richard C. Larson, and Airport Systems: Planning, Design, and Management (McGraw-Hill, 2003), with Prof. Richard de Neufville. He has consulted for national and international civil aviation authorities and at numerous international airports, including Amsterdam, Athens, Boston, Delhi, Lisbon, Milan, Munich, New York, Stockholm, and Sydney. Prof. Odoni serves or has served on the Editorial Board of many professional journals. A Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), he has received many distinctions, such as the T. Wilson Endowed Chair at MIT, the INFORMS Lifetime Achievement Award in Transportation Science, the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) National Award for Excellence in Aviation Education, a Honorary Ph.D. from Athens University of Economics and Business and several MIT awards for teaching excellence and mentoring. His graduate students have also received many research awards.
UPS Foundation Chair Professor of Transport & Logistics
Sauder School of Business
University of British Columbia, Canada
Editor, Journal of Transport Economics and Policy
Email: tae.oum@sauder.ubc.ca
Web:www.sauder.ubc.ca/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Faculty_Research_
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Short Biography:
Professor Oum is the president of the Air Transport Research Society (ATRS), a world-wide organization for researchers, policy makers and executives, the past President of the American Economics Association’s Transportation and Public Utilities Group (TPUG), and a Steering Committee member of the World Conference on Transportation Research (WCTR) Society since 1995. Expertise: economics and strategic management issues of transport, logistics and telecom industries. He has published 21 books, edited/co-edited 42 books/Conference Proceedings/Special issues of journals, published over 90 refereed journal papers and 70 papers as book chapters or in conference proceedings, have written numerous research reports for Canadian and foreign government agencies, major corporations, OECD, ECMT and the World Bank on the transportation and telecommunications policy and management issues. His books include Shaping Air Transport in Asia Pacific (Ashgate, London), Globalization and Strategic Alliances (Pergamon for Elsevier Science), Winning Airlines: Productivity and Cost Competitiveness of the World’s Major Airline (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston/Dordecht/London), Transport Economics: Selected Readings (Harwood Academic Publishers, London), and International Perspectives in Telecommunications Policy (JAI Press, Grennwich, Connecticut, USA). He has advised and consulted many Canadian and foreign government agencies, major telecom and airline companies in North America, Asia, Europe and Oceania. He delivered over 250 invited speeches (many keynote addresses), lectures, and presentations including a Millennium Celebration lecture in Singapore (January 13, 2000) and Special Lectures at the Japan Federation of Economic Societies (2000; 2004).
Professor in Transportation
School of Civil Engineering & the Environment
University of Southampton, UK
Editor, Journal of Transport Policy
Email: jpreston@soton.ac.uk
Web:www.civil.soton.ac.uk/staff/staffbydivision/staffprofile.asp?NameID=1643
Short Biography:
Professor Preston has over 20 years experience in transport teaching and research. He has taught transport options on Economics, Engineering, Geography, Management and Planning courses. His research in transport covers demand and cost modelling, regulatory studies, and land-use and environment interactions. His initial work concentrated on rail but subsequent work has covered all the major modes of transport. He has held nearly 100 research grants and contracts, worth almost £3 million, and has published over 160 articles, book chapters, conference and working papers. He is editor of Transport Policy and has been a member of the editorial boards of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Transport and Traffic Engineering and Control. He is an elected Fellow of the Transport Research Foundation and an adviser on railway issues to the Passenger Demand Forecasting Council and the Transport Committee of UK’s House of Commons. His current work focuses on rail issues and has involved leadership of Southampton Railway Systems Research and work on improving passenger rail services for Rail Research UK.
Executive Director, International Maritime, Ports and Logistics Management Institute
Frederick W. Beazeley Professor in Economics
Eminent Scholar, College of Business and Public Administration
Old Dominion University, USA
Editor-in-Chief, Transportation Research Part E:
Logistics and Transportation Review
Email: wktalley@odu.edu
Web: bpa.odu.edu/bpa/faculty/talley.shtml
Short Biography:
Dr. Wayne K. Talley is Professor of Economics at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.A., where he is the Executive Director of the Maritime Institute and holds the designations of Eminent Scholar and the Frederick W. Beazley Professor of Economics. He is an internationally recognized transportation economist. He has held visiting domestic positions at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, U.S. Department of Transportation, the Interstate Commerce Commission and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and international positions at Oxford University (England), the University of Sydney (Australia), University of Wollongong (Australia), University of Antwerp (Belgium) and City University (England). He is the Editor-in-Chief of Transportation Research E: Logistics and Transportation Review.
Chairman
ECORYS Reseach & Consulting, The
Netherlands
Short Biography:
Marten van den Bossche has
a professional experience of 23 years, after finishing his Masters in
Economics at the Erasmus University (Rotterdam) in 1984. At this moment
he is - besides his managerial tasks as Chairman of the Executive Board
of ECORYS Netherlands B.V (320 employees) -, active as partner of ECORYS
Transport .
ECORYS (of which the former Netherlands Economic Institute - NEI BV
forms a part) is based in Rotterdam. ECORYS is a leading independent
research based economic consultancy organisation.
During his career, Marten van den Bossche has built up a vast (200+
projects) experience in a.o.:
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Institutional building of port authorities, (departments of) ministries.
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Transport policy and sector studies: strong focus on port studies (airports/seaports) mainly freight-oriented, including trade & traffic forecasting on the one hand, and transport pricing related topics on the other, including external effects like environment and safety.
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Feasibility studies for infrastructure investments: road, rail, airports, and seaports. Both financial, regional and macro-economic impact analyses.
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Feasibility analyses and economic impact studies concerning industrial estates. Both sea- and landside. Demand and supply-analysis.
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Location decision studies for seaport related manufacturing industrial and logistical enterprises. Experience on the development of free economic zones.
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Second opinion analyses concerning the feasibility of sea- and airport development plans.
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Vast experience in regional economic development issues related to sector development, tourism, real estate, regional strategy development.
His international
experience covers, besides several multi-country projects on behalf of
the European Union, also projects in the following countries: India,
Egypt, United Arabic Emirates, Russia, Romania, Poland, Hungary, Baltic
States, Lebanon, Indonesia, Surinam, Curacao, and Portugal.
Prior to joining ECORYS Marten worked for an American insurance company
(CIGNA) and for the Economical and Technological Institute of Limburg (ETIL).
Managing Director
DNV Petroleum Services, Norway
Short Biography:
Tore Morten Wetterhus
graduated with a MSc in Electrical Engineering from the Norwegian
University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in 1995. He has over 10
years of working experience in ship systems and components as well as
marine fuel management.
Tore Morten joined DNV in 1995 and held senior positions in DNV Maritime
before his current appointment at DNV Petroleum Services.
Between 2000 and 2004, he was the R&D Director cum Managing Director of
Power-One, a leading supplier of advanced DC power management systems to
the telecommunications industry. He rejoined DNV in 2004.
Tore Morten Wetterhus, age 38, is currently based in Singapore.