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� CHALLENGE section is dedicated to draw attention to critical problems in the maritime industry as well as academic research. Both scholars and professionals can submit a short article dealing with the problem and draw attention of readers to that challenging topic. For submitting articles to CHALLENGE, Please refer to SUBMISSIONS page. Jasmine Siu Lee Lam, Section Editor Dr. Jasmine Siu Lee LAM is an Associate Professor and Director of MSc Maritime Studies Programme at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Dr Lam�s major research and teaching areas are maritime studies, logistics, supply chain management, and transport economics. Dr Lam has extensive experience in executive training and has been invited by various organisations such as Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, NOL, port authorities and banks as a speaker at international conferences and seminars. Leading a R&D team and working closely with the industry and government agencies, Dr Lam has completed over 40 projects and has widely published in leading international journals. She is the Associate Editor of Maritime Policy & Management (a flagship journal of maritime research) and a member of the editorial board of Journal of Supply Chain Management (among the top international journal in management). She is an Elected Council Member of the International Association of Maritime Economists, and also a member of BNP Paribas Chair international scientific committee. Dr Lam is the recipient of many awards, including Best Paper Awards and Erasmus Mundus Scholars Award awarded by the European Commission. Okan Duru, Section Associate Editor Dr. Okan Duru is the Assistant Professor of Maritime Finance and Logistics at the Department of Maritime Administration, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Texas. He received his PhD degree from Kobe University, Japan. His research interests are in shipping asset management, behavioral economics of shipping business, forecasting, judgment and decision making. He has published many journal papers and conference papers as well as editing journal issues. He reviewed several papers for Maritime Policy and Management, International Journal of Forecasting, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of the Operational Research Society-JORS, Applied Soft Computing, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, among others. Rosa Guadalupe Gonz�lez Ram�rez, Section Associate Editor Dr. Rosa G. Gonz�lez-Ram�rez is a Professor and Researcher in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the Universidad de Los Andes, Chile. She holds a bachelor�s degree in Industrial Engineering from the Technologic Institute of Morelia, a Master�s in Industrial Engineering from Arizona State University, a Master�s in Quality and Productivity Systems and a PhD in Engineering Sciences from the Tecnol�gico de Monterrey in Mexico. Her research areas are related to supply chain management and port logistics, including optimization models and algorithms, as well as trade facilitation, competitiveness studies and sustainability in ports. She has been working in applied research projects and is currently an active researcher in the Program Digital and Collaborative Network of Ports in Latin America and the Caribbean leaded by the Economic System of Latin America and the Caribbean, SELA, and the Latin America Development Bank CAF.
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