Rate My Professor Adolf K.Y. Ng

Professor Adolf K.Y. Ng is the Dean and Chair Professor of Transportation and Supply Chain Management in the Faculty of Business and Management at Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University (BNBU). He earned his DPhil from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, and has held academic positions in Canada, Hong Kong, and the Netherlands. Previously, he served as Professor of Transport and Supply Chain Management at the Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba, where he was also Director of the University of Manitoba Transport Institute and Senior Fellow of St. John's College. At BNBU, he is the Founding Director of the International Centre for Resilient Supply Chains and a State Specially Recruited Expert. His research specializations encompass transport economics, global supply chains, maritime transport, climate change adaptation planning, infrastructure planning and management, institutional and organizational change, supply chain resilience, green logistics, and port governance. Recognized as one of the world's Top-5 scholars in maritime research and listed on Elsevier's Top 2% Scientists worldwide, he has produced eight books and over 120 papers in leading journals. Notable publications include 'Maritime Transport and Supply Chain Resilience' (2024), 'Port-Focal Logistics and Global Supply Chains' (2014), and 'Implications of climate change for shipping: Opening the Arctic seas' (2018). He serves as Chief Editor of The Maritime Economist, the official magazine of the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME), where he was a Council Member, and holds editorial positions as Associate Editor and Section Editor (Disasters & Resilience) for Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, and Associate Editor for Maritime Policy & Management.