Dr. Wayne K. Talley is Eminent Scholar; Frederick W. Beazley Chair Professor of Economics; Professor of Maritime and Supply Chain Management; and Executive Director of the International Maritime, Ports and Logistics Management Institute at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.A.

U.S. visiting appointments include – Senior Research Fellow, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts; Industry Economist, Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, D.C.; Faculty Fellow, Transportation Systems Center, U.S. Department of Transportation, Cambridge, Massachusetts: and Faculty Fellow, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Langley, Virginia.

Editorships included Editor-in-Chief (Honorary Editor-in-Chief) of Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2000-2012 (2013 - ) and Associate Editor of the Journal of Business Logistics.

Publications include 165 academic-journal and book-chapter papers and 10 books. The two recent books include Port Economics (Routledge, 2009), the first textbook on the subject, and The Blackwell Companion to Maritime Economics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), an edited book with 34 chapters and 50 contributing chapter authors.

International visiting appointments include – Distinguished Visitor, Institute of Transport Studies, University of Sydney, Australia; Guest Professor, Institute of Transport and Maritime Management, University of Antwerp, Belgium; Visiting Fellow, Transport Studies Unit, Oxford University, United Kingdom; and Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Transport Policy Analysis, University of Wollongong, Australia.

International honorary appointments include – Honorary Chair Professor, Institute of Traffic and Transportation, National Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan; Honorary Visiting Professor, Centre for Shipping, Trade and Finance, City University, London, United Kingdom; and Honorary Guest Professor, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, China.