Biography
Thanos Pallis is a Professor of port and maritime economics and policy at the Department of Maritime Studies, University of Piraeus, Greece. The founder and co-director of PortEconomics and the Vice-Chair of the global Port Performance Research Network (PPRN), He has served as President of the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME), was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University, New York, US, and held adjunct professorships at Dalhousie University, Canada, and Universidad de Los Andes Colombia. Thanos has co-authored the books European Port Policy, The Common EU Maritime Transport Policy, and Port Economics, Management & Policy (Routledge, 2022). Today, he is a member of the International Association of Ports & Harbors (IAPH) Risk and Resilience Committee and the IAPH Cruise Committee and co-author of the IAPH World Ports Tracker. He chairs the Advisory Board of the Italian Regulatory Authority for Transport. In 2024, he was included in the 2% of the world’s most cited researchers in transport & logistics.
