Theo Notteboom is professor and president of ITMMA, an institute of the University of Antwerp (www.itmma.ua.ac.be). He is also a part-time professor in maritime transport at the Antwerp Maritime Academy and a visiting professor at Dalian Maritime University in China and World Maritime University in Sweden. He previously held a position as MPA Visiting Professor in Port Management at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He currently is president of International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME) and chairman of the Board of Directors of Belgian Institute of Transport Organizers (BITO), an institute of the Belgian Federal Government. He (co-)authored nearly 300 papers on (trans)port and maritime economics in academic journals, books and conference proceedings and was involved in about 50 national and international research projects. He received six awards for his academic work from organizations such as International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH) and IAME. He is a regular speaker at international and national conferences and co-organized about ten conferences. He is a fellow of the Belgian Royal Academy of Overseas Sciences, a co-director of PortEconomics.eu, Associate Editor of Maritime Policy and Management and a member of the editorial boards of four other leading academic journals in the field. ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it – www.ua.ac.be/theo.notteboom )