About the Authors

John Mangan is Professor of Marine Transport and Logistics at Newcastle University in the UK. Born in Cork, Ireland, he holds a PhD degree from Cardiff University, Masters degrees from both Cranfield and Lancaster Universities, and a BSc degree from University College Cork. He was a Fulbright Scholar at Boston College and also spent a sabbatical teaching at MIT. Initially he worked as an air freight clerk (Aer Lingus) and then as a civil servant (Irish Civil Service - Marine and Finance ministries). He subsequently held academic appoint­ments at University College Dublin, the Irish Management Institute and the University of Hull (where he was founding Director of the University of Hull Logistics Institute). He has conducted a range of consulting assignments for both public and private sector clients and has served as an independent evaluator for the European Commission. He also regu­larly teaches on graduate and executive education programmes in logistics and related areas. John's teaching and research is primarily focused upon global logistics and supply chain management, maritime transport and logistics management development. He has an extensive raft of publications and is co-editor of the International Journal of Logistics: Research and Applications. He has supervised many PhD students and regularly sits on PhD examination committees; in addition he is external examiner at a number of universi­ties. He has participated in a variety of funded research projects, a recent example being the multi-partner 'Low Carbon Shipping: a Systems Approach' research project (www Jowcarbonshipping.co.uk) where he is one of the principal investigators.

Chandra Lalwani is Emeritus Professor of Supply Chain Management at the University of Hull Business School. He is a Visiting Professor at Newcastle University in the UK and at RMIT University in Australia. He holds a BEng in Electrical Engineering, an MEng in Control Systems and another MEng in Systems Engineering. He obtained his PhD from the Uni­versity of Wales in 1978 based on his research on the dynamic modelling pf commodity flow systems. Prior to joining the University of Hull he taught at Cardiff University Business School and was responsible for doctoral research in logistics and operations management. Professor Lalwani was a Deputy Director and Co-investigator at Cardiff Business School on the Cardiff University Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre, and Principal Investigator on one of its three flagship research projects on sustainable logistics. Chandra's teaching and research focus is on supply chain management, retail logistics, logistics and transport modelling, and integration of transport in supply chains. With his research in transport in supply chains, he has worked closely with the retail and distribution industry in the UK. He is also a member of a consortium in the UK researching into low carbon shipping and is co-editor in chief of International Journal of Logistics Management published by Emerald.

Tim Butcher is a Senior Lecturer at RMIT University's School of Management in Mel bourne, Australia. Besides his research and lecturing responsibilities, he is Deputy Head of School for Industry Engagement. Tim holds a BEng (Hons) (University of Liverpool) an MSc (Cranfield University), and EngD (Cranfield University), and previously worked in production and maintainability engineering in the aerospace sector. His last academic role was as MSc Programme Director at the University of Hull Logistics Institute. He has led various manufacturing, logistics and business improvement projects as a practitioner, a researcher and as a research supervisor. Tim researches the impact of technologies on work and society, with particular reference to logistics and supply chain management.