PortEconomics member Thanos Pallis has been elected as the new President of IAME, the International Association of Maritime Economist. The announcement is made following the conclusion of the election during the IAME 2018 Annual Conference held in September in Mombasa, Kenya.

Established in 1992, IAME is the Association representing scholars interested in maritime economics, as well as maritime economist, from all over the world. The Association today has a membership spaning in all continents and is officially linked to two leading academic journals in the field: Maritime Policy & Management and Maritime Economics & Logistics. It has celebrated the IAME Conference, its annual flagship event, in all five continents, with IAME 2019 scheduled to take place in Athens, Greece.

IAME also elected its new Council for 2018-2020, with a strong presence of members of the PortEconomics initiative. Michaël Dooms (University of Brussels, Belgium) and Jasmine Siu Lee Lam (Nanyang Technology University, Singapore), were elected as IAME Vice-Presidents, while the full synthesis of the Council also includes Theo Notteboom (Shanghai Maritime University, China), who has also served the Association as President in the past,  Adolf Ng (University of Manitoba, Canada), Giovanni Satta (University of Genoa, Italy), Gordon Wilmsmeier (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia).

Commenting on his election Thanos Pallis said “IAME has been the Association providing a most valuable platform to scholars and economists interested in the maritime world. It has been an effective network for all, driven by its members and those that have taken the responsibility to voluntarily serve the Association as Council members and presidents. From that perspective I am sincerely honored to serve as its next president. Along with the Council members we will continue the work to make IAME an even more treasured Association in the coming years.”

For further details on IAME see: www.mar-economists.org