Since 1992, I am professor of Maritime Economics & Logistics (MEL), having taught at 9 universities (and in 7 different countries), most prominent of which being Erasmus University Rotterdam and National University of Singapore.In 2015, I founded Haralambides & Associates (www.maritimeeconomics.eu): a global think-tank of academics, business executives and high-end consultants in the 'maritime' sector, i.e. shipping; ports; terminals; transport; and maritime logistics. H&A engages in policy advice, executive education and contract research. In 1999, I founded MEL, i.e., the Center (and MSc) of "Maritime Economics & Logistics", and the Palgrave-MacMillan journal under the same name (www.palgrave.com/41278). The MEL journal is today a household name in quality maritime research, from Stanford University to the 4 corners of the earth. In 1992, together with R.O. Goss and Tor Wergeland, I founded the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME).Finally, in 2011, I handed over the daily management of the MEL MSc course back to the Erasmus School of Economics, so as to be able to take over the Presidency of the Port Authority of Brindisi: A small provincial town of Southern Italy (Apulian Region) which taught me the problems of economic dualism and underdevelopment in the best possible hands-on way.In 2008, I was decorated with the Golden Cross of the Order of the Phoenix by the President of the Hellenic Republic.