Michele Fiorini Editor

Michele Fiorini, MBA, Ph.D., CEng, FIET acts as a principal in large international projects and global organisations where he leads (or is a member of) cross-cultural teams providing guidance, problem-solving attitude and engineering management as well as educational mentoring. His work focuses on intelligent and cognitive systems and engineering management for research and innovation strengthening cooperation between industry and academia. He has been the Chair of the Council at the Institution of Engineering and Technology (London, United Kingdom, 2017-18) and a session chair at the Euro-Asia Economic Forum (Xi'an, China, 2013). He is a project engineering manager for Leonardo s.p.a. in Rome, Italy, and an industrial member of the e-Navigation Committee at the International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities (IALA-AISM) in Paris, France. Michele is serving as a member of the advisory board of the MBA programme at the Gdańsk University of Technology in Poland and a judge for the E&T Innovation Awards, intelligent systems category in London, United Kingdom. Natalie Gupta is an independent consultant focusing on ports and trade facilitation. She works through her own consultancy Port Processes Ltd and is the Chair of Independent Port Consultants (IPC), a network of port consultants working internationally. Natalie works on three main streams of projects, namely feasibility studies for ports and the maritime sector, trade facilitation in the context of ports and trade corridors, and port operations-related assignments to do with performance and management. Natalie also has experience of working on bunkering in the sector and is involved in projects concerning the greenification of the sector in various country contexts.