Ferrari Claudio (Ph.D.). Full Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Genoa, Italy, and member of the scientific board of the Italian Centre of Excellence for Integrated Logistics. He is the Director of the Ph.D. programme in Marine Science and Technologies. His scientific research is focused on transport economics, transport planning, and regional economics, namely with regards to ports and transport infrastructures. He is author of more than 160 contributions published in academic journals and books. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Transport Policy, International Journal of Transport Economics (IJTE), European Transport Research Review (ETRR), Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (JMSE), and the Rivista di Economia e Politica dei Trasporti (REPoT). President of the Italian Association of Transport Economics and Logistics (SIET). He has been involved in many academic research programmes and consultancy studies on the transport sector commissioned by international and Italian organisations.