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Ziaul Haque Munim, PhD is Associate Professor of Maritime Logistics at the Faculty of Technology, Natural and Maritime Sciences at the University of South-Eastern Norway. His main research interests include maritime logistics, supply chain management, forecasting and research methods. He holds a PhD degree in International Management from the University of Agder and MSc degree in Supply Chain Management from the Vienna University of Economics and Business. His publications have appeared in leading journals such as the Journal of Business Research, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Journal of Cleaner Production and others. He received the Palgrave Macmillan Best Paper Award at the IAME 2016 in Hamburg and the KLU Young Researcher Best Paper Award at the IAME 2018 in Mombasa. Dr. Munim is listed in the World's Top 2% Scientists published by the 2023 Elsevier-Stanford University.

Dhanavanth Reddy Maditati, PhD holds a PhD degree and MSc degree in supply chain management, with specializations in transport and logistics and decision support systems, from Vienna University of Economics and Business. His research interests include supply chain outsourcing, best practices and green supply chain management, with a special focus on comparing developed and emerging economies. He also has a vital five-year industry experience as a sourcing and vendor development manager in leading construction equipment OEM, Tata Hitachi Construction Machinery Co. Ltd in India. He is currently working in Strategic Purchasing role in Aerospace sector.

Prof. Sebastian Kummer, PhD is the Head of the Institute of Transport and Logistics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. His research focuses on logistics management, supply chain management, supply chain performance measurement as well as on transport management and economy, economical analyses of transport infrastructure and services. He works as a consultant and management trainer for companies and government bodies. He is member in several scientific and company boards. Sebastian Kummer has been visiting professor and Lecturer at universities in China (Bejing, Chengdu, Chángchūn and Tianjin), the Philippines (Manila), Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg), Ukraine (Kiev), Vietnam (Hanoi), Germany (Hamburg, Marburg, Vallendar and Zittau), Switzerland (Chur and Zürich), Lichtenstein and Austria (Dornbirn, Leoben and Krems). He has been (deputy) Member of the Austrian Railway Control Commission (2004–2011). He has published more than 150 publications, e.g. leading text books and award-winning journal papers.

Hans-Joachim Schramm, PhD is Senior Lecturer at WU – Vienna University of Economics and Business and external lecturer at Copenhagen Business School (CBS). He holds a Diploma degree in Economics from Humboldt-University at Berlin and a doctoral degree from Dresden University of Technology. Being a forwarding agent by profession, his main focus of his research is about economics and policy issues in sea, air, rail and road transport markets. He authored several papers and monographs and contributed to peer-review processes at JBL, IJPDLM, IJLM, IJISM, LR and JTG. Furthermore, he was visiting lecturer in Belgium, Finland, France, Hungary, Sweden, China and Cuba. Together with Dr Ziaul Haque Munim, he received the Best Paper Award at the IAME Annual Conference 2016 in Hamburg, Germany.