Naima Saeed

Naima Saeed is a Professor in Supply Chain Management at the School of Business and Law at the University of Agder. Saeed was an honorary visiting fellow at La Trobe Business School, Melbourne, Australia, and a visiting scholar at the School of Business IT and Logistics, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, University of California, Berkeley, United States, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan, and Nelson Mandela University Business School, South Africa.

She has a Ph.D. in Logistics from Molde University College (Norway), with a specialization in Maritime Economics. Her current research is focused on port competition and cooperation, maritime connectivity, and measures to improve ports’ efficiency.  

Saeed has published papers in well-acknowledged international peer-reviewed scientific journals, including the European Journal of Operational Research, Computers in Industry, Transportation Science, Maritime Economics & Logistics, and Maritime Policy & Management.

Saeed received the third best paper award in the port competitiveness and competition session at IAME 2019 conference in Athens, Greece. She has served as a referee for several academic journals.

Before joining the University of Agder, Saeed worked as an Associate Professor in Logistics at Molde University College. She has also worked on two European Union projects and was responsible for developing distance-learning courses in Maritime Logistics and Maritime Value Chain. She has also worked as a consultant in a project financed by the VRI program of The Research Council of Norway. 

Saeed was a member of the Norwegian Association of Higher Education Institutions’ committee for the research methods course (2016-2020).