Team Kühne Chair

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Political scientist (National University of Colombia) with a Master’s degree in Conservation and Use of Biodiversity (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana).

Her professional experience includes research, consulting, and the formulation and coordination of environmental and climate projects. She has also worked in the public sector, NGOs, and academia in areas such as public relations, political advocacy, and strategic alliance building.

She currently works as a Project Officer at the Kühne Chair in Logistics at the University of the Andes, where she formulates research projects and consultancies, promotes strategic alliances with the public and private sectors, and manages the research group’s digital communication.

She has worked as an advisor on policy and legislative initiatives in the Government and Congress of the Republic of Colombia. She was the political advocacy coordinator at the Marviva Foundation, where she led the development and implementation of marine and coastal conservation projects, with an emphasis on sustainable fishing and ocean pollution mitigation. She also has research experience in the areas of climate governance, socio-territorial movements, and agroecological and sustainable practices.

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Industrial Engineer with master’s degrees in Administration (National University of Colombia) and Supply Chain Management (University of the Andes). She has experience in research on sustainability, electric mobility, and port energy efficiency.

She currently works as a Research Associate at the Kühne Professorial Chair in Logistics at the University of the Andes, where she has participated in projects with various public and private entities. Among these, initiatives in nautical electromobility aimed at improving connectivity and quality of life in remote coastal communities on the Colombian Pacific coast stand out.

She has designed and developed interactive dashboards in Power BI focused on the analysis of maritime transport and port activity, including studies on the performance of ports in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Greece. In addition, she has collaborated on port integrity analysis projects, contributing to strengthening transparency in the sector.

She has more than five years of experience as a university professor and has participated in social research projects focused on productive initiatives in rural communities.

Her research interests focus on the sustainable management of resources within supply chains, promoting strategies that reduce environmental impact and generate social value in the territories where they are implemented.

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Professional in business administration and technologist in business management. She has 7 years of experience in the planning, operational and financial execution of research projects. Her work is oriented to the formulation of projects focused on nautical electromobility and renewable energies that generate quantifiable social/environmental impacts and that promote benefits in rural areas of Colombia and that include partnerships with strategic actors.

Diana has work and research interests related to sustainable resource management and its interrelation with technological, environmental, economic, social and political aspects. She has experience in working with communities – especially in the Colombian Pacific – supporting processes of adoption of technological innovations that result in the strengthening of quality of life, productive activities and reduction of environmental impacts.

In addition, she has 10 years of experience in research platform management, as well as extensive experience in delivering reports for international accreditation agencies and higher education measurement rankings.

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Civil Engineer from the National University of Colombia. Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering from the University of the Andes, Bogotá, and Master’s Degree in Economics and Finance from the University of Queensland, Australia.

With more than 15 years of experience in the area of transportation and infrastructure services, specifically in maritime and river transportation and ports, at entities such as the National Planning Department (DNP), the National Infrastructure Agency (ANI), the World Bank, and the University of the Andes. He was a professor of graduate programs at the Externado University of Colombia and a consultant for the World Bank.

In addition to research on sustainability methodologies for the port industry, he has conducted research on energy transition and transport decarbonization at the University of Queensland and in the GiroZero project on the decarbonization of Road Freight Transport in Colombia.

His research interests include maritime economics, new energy sources such as hydrogen, transport decarbonization, and the circular economy in infrastructure.

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Natalia has bachelor’s degrees in Naval Sciences and Physical Oceanography, and a master’s degree in Oceanography from the Naval Academy “Almirante Padilla.” She is currently pursuing a PhD in Maritime Affairs at the World Maritime University, focusing on sustainable development of inland waterway transport. Natalia started her career as a Navy officer in the Colombian Navy. She then worked as an adviser and surveyor for the Colombian Maritime Administration. Currently, she is a Research Assistant for the EU Horizon Seanergy project, dedicated to facilitating the transition of ports towards cleaner energy sources, reinforcing his commitment to sustainable port operations. Her work highlights her commitment to sustainable port operations and environmental sustainability in the maritime industry.

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PhD in Transport from UPM, Master in Port Engineering from CEDEX and UBA, Civil Engineer from UCA. His research focuses on the dynamics of connectivity between regions and the factors that influence it—such as trade, freight, infrastructure, ship dimensions, new technologies, service configuration, and commercial practices. He is currently a member of the Khüne Chair at UniAndes.

She is presently a Senior Consultant at the Infrastructure and Logistics Unit of ECLAC. She has contributed to high-impact publications including ECLAC, ESCAP, UNCTAD, PIANC, JST, MPM, and IAME. She currently teaches in the Specialisation in Port Engineering at UBA, has lectured at UCA, UTN, UCU, Di Tella, and has supervised Master’s Theses in Urban Economics.

With 20 years of experience, he has collaborated with multiple governments and industries across America, Europe, and Asia, developing projects aimed at regional integration and contributing to the identification of challenges, policies, and innovative, flexible, and sustainable solutions.

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PhD in Engineering Systems from the University of Chile (2020).

Before joining the KLU, Cristiam worked in the GiroZero Project with Cardiff University in the UK and University of Andes in Colombia. GiroZero is a project funded of the UK Pact programme of the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

The project seeks to accelerate vehicle renewal and technologies to reduce the miles run, fuel consumed, and CO2 emitted by vehicles operating within the Colombian road freight transport sector.

During his Ph.D. studies, he was awarded The Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP) scholarship from Government of Canada to do his doctoral internship in the prestigious Interuniversity Center for research in Entrepreneurial Networks, Logistics and Transportation (CIRRELT) in the École Polytechnique de Montréal-Canada, developing cutting-edge solution methods and algorithms for highly combinatorial and complex models.

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PhD Candidate at Kuehne Logistics University. Mechanical Engineer from Universidad Nacional de Colombia with a Magister Science degree in Industrial Engineering from ICESI and GCLOG Certificate in Supply Chain Management at MIT.

He has 19 years of work experience in freight transportation in the private sector and public sector. He worked as transport planning specialist, project manager, operations manager and Senior Consultant for the National Planning Department (DNP) with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Also, he has developed freelance logistics and sustainable freight transportation projects with multilateral banking such as the World Bank for Bolivia, with the IDB for Peru, CAF for Panamá, and ICLEI for Colombia.