Honorary Guests

The Organizing Committee has the great honour to invite the following prestigious scholars attending IFSPA 2008 as Honorary Guests and Session Chairs:

Professor Martin Dresener

Professor in Logistics and Transportation

R.H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland

United States of America

Short Biography:

Martin Dresner has served on the faculty of the R.H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland since 1988 where he is currently Professor of Logistics and Transportation.  He received his Ph.D. in Policy Analysis from the University of British Columbia.  Dresner’s research focuses on two broad areas, air transport policy and logistics management. He has published papers in leading transportation, logistics, and supply chain journals, as well as in related fields.  In addition, Dresner has co-authored a book on supply chain management. Professionally, he is Series Editor for Research in Transportation Economics, editor of Transportation Journal, and is active in several organizations, including the Transportation and Public Utilities Group and the Transportation Research Forum. He has testified before the House Aviation Subcommittee, and has worked on consulting projects for a number of organizations, including the Maryland Aviation Administration and the U.S. Department of Energy.

Professor Henry S. L. Fan

Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Director, Centre for Infrastructure Systems

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Email: chenryf@ntu.edu.sg

Web: www.ntu.edu.sg/cee/staff/infrastructure/academic/chenryf.asp

Short Biography:

Dr Fan has over 30 years of teaching, research and consulting experience in airport engineering, transport planning, traffic engineering, and mathematical/computer modeling of transport systems.  He holds a PhD in transportation engineering from the University of California, Berkeley,  and is a registered Professional Engineer in Singapore.  He is on the International Civil Aviation Organization's panel of experts available under its Technical Cooperation Program. He has served on the Academic Council of the China-Singapore Airport Management Academy, and the Board of Singapore’s Land Transport Authority. Dr Fan has provided consultancy services to the private and public sectors in Singapore, international agencies such as ICAO and the Asian Development Bank, as well as government departments in several countries. He was intimately involved in the development of models for estimating airport capacity/delay for the US Federal Aviation Administration which formed the basis of an FAA Advisory Circular for airport capacity and delay studies.  Dr Fan is active in the profession, and has served on a Committee that prepared the Singapore Code of Practice for the Distribution of Hazardous Chemicals; and the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Advanced Transportation and the Singapore Maritime and Port Journal.  Currently, he is a member of the Transportation Subcommittee of the National Climate Change Committee and the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Aviation Management and the Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Singapore. He has contributed more than 70 articles to professional journals and conferences, and has written over 80 research and consultancy reports.

Professor FENG, Cheng-Min

Professor of Institute of Traffic and Transportation

National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Chairman of Taiwan Institute of Urban Planning

Short Biography:

Dr. Cheng-Min Feng is a Professor of Institute of Traffic and Transportation in National Chiao Tung University.  He is the Chairman of Taiwan Institute of Urban Planning, the former Chairman of Chinese Regional Science Association-Taiwan and the former Chairman of Chinese Institute of Transportation.  He is also the former Director General of Institute of Transportation, Ministry of Transportation and Communications.  Dr. Feng has a B.S and M.S in Taiwan, and a Ph.D from the University of Northwestern, Illinois.  He specializes in Urban and Regional Analysis, Transportation and Logistics, Transportation Planning and Management, Project Evaluation and Decision Making.  Dr. Feng has published two books, Methods of Urban and Regional Analysis and Research Methods, and papers on various aspects of transport, logistics and urban planning and obtained many different research awards in Taiwan.  In recent five years (2003-2007), he published 48 referred journal papers, in which six belong to international SSCI papers, twenty three are TSSCI papers, and two belongs EI paper.  His current research interests include global logistics, transportation policy, sustainable development, and transportation and land use.

Professor Peter Forsyth

Professor in Economics

Monash University, Australia

Short Biography:

Peter Forsyth has been Professor of Economics at Monash University since 1997, and prior to this he taught at the University of New England, Australian National University and the University of New South Wales. Most of his research has been on applied microeconomics, with particular reference to transport economics and especially the economics of air transport, tourism economics and the economics of regulation. His current teaching includes subjects on Competition Policy and Regulation, Cost Benefit Analysis, Economics of Tourism, and Public Economics.

He has done general work on microeconomic reform and regulatory economics, and much of his recent work on regulation has been applied to airports. He has published several papers on airport regulation, and is the joint editor of a book on the subject (The Economic Regulation of Airports: Recent developments in Australasia, North America and Europe, Ashgate, 2004). He has recently published a jointly edited book on Airport Slots (Airport Slots: International Experiences and Options for Reform, Ashgate, 2008). In 2003 he was awarded an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant for research on Airport Privatisation and Regulation. Peter Forsyth has, since 2000, been a frequent speaker at the Hamburg Aviation Conference, and in 2005 he delivered the Martin Kunz Memorial Lecture. He also regularly presents at German Aviation Research Society (GARS) Workshops. In May 2007 he was an invited speaker at the University of British Columbia Centre for Transportation Studies/ Transport Canada conference on Gateways and Corridors.

He has also done substantial research on tourism economics and policy. Recently, with Larry Dwyer, he published an edited volume, (International Handbook on the Economics of Tourism, Edward Elgar, 2006). His research has covered measurement of the benefits of tourism, assessment of international price competitiveness of tourism industries, foreign investment in tourism and taxation of tourism. Recent work has involved using computable general equilibrium models to assess the economic impacts of tourism, including events, and in analysing tourism and aviation policy issues. Current research includes climate change policies and their impact on aviation, and developing models to assess the implications of climate change policies for the tourism industry. He is currently developing measures of the carbon footprint of Australian tourism. This work has been supported by the Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre.

Professor LEE, Yeong Heok

Professor and Chairman,

School of Air Transport, Transportation and Logistics,

Korea Aerospace University, Korea

Short Biography:

Professor Yeong-Heok Lee is the Professor and Chairman, School of Air Transport, Transportation and Logistics, Korea Aerospace University. He obtained his Ph. D in Economics, Pennsylvania State University, U.S. He is currently a Network Committee Member of ATRS (Air Transport Research Society), member of National Transportation Policy Committee, Ministry of Land, Transportation, and Maritime Affairs, Korea. He is also a board Member of Korea Logistics Society, and Ex- director of Air Transport & Maritime Research, Korea Transport Institute. His has conducted major studies on air transport policy, airport management, urban transport, transport mode choice and transport and logistics networks etc. He has published over 60 journal articles and books in the transport and logistics sector.

Professor TONGZON, Jose

Professor and MGLM International Director

Graduate School of Logistics

Inha University, South Korea

Short Biography:

Prof. Jose L. Tongzon is currently Professor and MGLM International Director at the Graduate School of Logistics, Inha University, South Korea and has had more than twenty-five (25) years of teaching and research experience at the tertiary level in various countries in the area of international trade and development and maritime economics focusing on the economies of Southeast Asia. 

Prior to his current appointment, he was Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore (from 1992 to 2006) where he taught and conducted research in the area of international trade, regional development and maritime issues affecting the region. He had provided economic advice to the Victorian government in the State of Victoria, Australia in the management of the port of Melbourne and managed research activities in the area of international trade and port-related issues while he was Chief Economist of the Port of Melbourne from 1988 to 1992.  He has published several articles in refereed international journals and books in the area of international trade and maritime issues and has served as an international trade consultant for international and regional agencies [such as the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), United Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), World Bank (WB), Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the ASEAN Secretariat] and other private organizations.

Professor WILSON, Wesley

Professor of Economic

University of Oregon, United States of America

Short Biography:

Wesley Wilson is a Professor of Economics at the University of Oregon (darkwing.uoregon.edu/~wwilson). He is an award winning teacher who publishes widely in the areas of transportation, industrial organization, trade, labor, agriculture and applied econometrics. He is a former president of the Transportation and Public Utilities Group (TPUG) of the American Economics Association, a member of the Global Port Benchmarking Taskforce, the Inland Waterway and Agricultural Transportation Committees of the Transportation Research Board, a former President of the Agricultural Chapter of the Transportation Research Forum, and is an Affiliated Faculty with the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute and Christensen Associates. He is a member of the board of editors for the Review of Industrial Organization, Transportation Policy and IFSPA Transactions, and a former member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of the Transportation Research Forum and Agribusiness: An International Journal. Since 2003, Professor Wilson has been a Technical Advisor to the Navigation and Economics Technologies (NETS) Program of the Institute for Water Resources, Army Corps of Engineers. In this capacity, he has both conducted research and helped to coordinate a team of academic economists with Army Corps of Engineer economists, planners and consulting agencies. This research program, summarized in www.corpsnets.us, is intended to provide a body of knowledge useful to evaluating policy alternatives confronted by the Corps and to integrate some of that knowledge into analytical models. He has also received a wide variety of grants, most notably from the National Science Foundation (with Bruce Blonigen) to examine the effects of trade policy in steel markets.

Professor WINKELMANS, Willy

Professor of Transport Economics, Transport Policy, Port and Maritime Economics and MaritimeTechnology

University of Antwerp, Belgium

Short Biography: 

Professor emeritus in the field of Transport Economics, Transport Policy, Port and Maritime Economics and MaritimeTechnology at the University of Antwerp.

Founding Father(1996¢X) of ITMMA (Institute of Tranport and Maritime Management Antwerp and Honorary President since October 2006. Chairman of the Flemish Port Commission on behalf of the Flemish Government since 1990. First chairman and since 2005 member of the Board of Directors of the Flemish Institute of Logistics.

Author of various scientific publications in national and international journals and co-author or editor of several books.

Consultant to private and public organisations in the frame work of Cost Benefit Analyses, Economic Impact Studies, Strategic Positioning and Transport Management Analyses in relation to issues of (in)effectiveness and (in)efficiency regarding transport policy and management. 

Organizer and active participant, lecturer or chairman in more than 100 international conferences, seminars and post-academic cycles. 

Project leader of several interuniversitary co-operation programs, and Promoter of  7 Ph.D’s.

Professor ZHANG, Anming

Professor of Operations and Logistics

YVR Authority Professor in Air Transportation

British Columbia (UBC), Canada

Short Biography: 

Anming Zhang is a Professor of Operations and Logistics and holds YVR Authority Professor in Air Transportation at University of British Columbia (UBC). He received a BSc from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, MSc and PhD from UBC. Dr. Zhang has published over 60 refereed journal papers in the areas of transportation and industrial organization. Two of his recent (coauthored) books are: Globalization and Strategic Alliances: The Case of the Airline Industry, 2000, Pergamon Press; and Air Cargo in Mainland China and Hong Kong, 2004, Ashgate.