Yasmine Rashed is currently an Associate Professor and the Head of Transport Logistics Management Department in the Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport at the College of International Transport and Logistics. In addition, she is a volunteer researcher at the Department of Transport and Regional Economics at the Faculty of Applied Economics at the University of Antwerp. She obtained her PhD at the Department of Transport and Regional Economics at the University of Antwerp. She has a doctoral grant financed by BNP Paribas Fortis chair on transport, logistics and ports at the Department of Transport and Regional Economics. Her research focuses on quantitative transport economics in the port sector. She has obtained her bachelor degree and M.Sc. in Economics (2010) from the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University. In addition, she has a joint Diploma in International Transport and Logistics by the AASTMT (Egypt), the Norwegian Shipping Academy and the Norwegian School of Management (Norway).