Prof. Rose Luke is a transport economist with a doctoral degree from the University of Johannesburg and is the director of the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (Africa), the research unit of the Department of Transport and Supply Chain Management, responsible for the department’s M and D programme and research output. She lectures on extra-curricular, under-graduate and post-graduate courses in Transport Economics and Logistics Management, and supervises several Masters and Doctoral candidates. She is an associate professor, a published author, a frequently invited speaker at industry forums, an associate editor of the Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management, on the editorial advisory board of the International Journal of Logistics Management, a peer reviewer for a number of prestigious journals, and an examiner for several universities. Her academic specialities include transport related social exclusion, public transport, sustainability, logistics and supply chains (especially in developing countries), and transport economics.