Tae Oum
University of British Columbia, Canada

Tae Oum is the UPS Foundation Chair Professor of Transport and Logistics, Sauder School of Business, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He is the president of the Air Transport Research Society (ATRS), a world-wide organization for researchers, policy makers and executives, the past President of the American Economics Association’s Transportation and Public Utilities Group (TPUG), and a Steering Committee member of the World Conference on Transportation Research (WCTR) Society since 1995.

Prior to joining UBC he taught at School of Business, Queen's University, Ontario, Canada (1977-83). He was visiting Professor at Graduate School of Economics, Tokyo University (2004-05), National University of Singapore (2005), the METEO Visiting Professor at University of Maastricht, Holland (2000), the Albert Winsemius Chair Professor at Nanyang Business School, NTU, Singapore (1999-2000), an Invited Professor at Osaka University (1989, 1994), and Korea Transport Institute (1995).

Dr. Oum specializes in economics and strategic management issues of transport, logistics and IT-telecom industries. He has published 21 books, edited/co-edited 39 books/Conference Proceedings/Special issues of journals, published over 90 refereed journal papers and 70 papers as book chapters or in conference proceedings, have written numerous research reports for Canadian and foreign government agencies, OECD, major corporations, and the World Bank on the transportation and telecommunications policy and management issues.

He has advised and consulted many Canadian and foreign government agencies, major telecom and airline companies in North America, Asia, Europe and Oceania. He delivered nearly 300 invited speeches (many keynote addresses), lectures, and presentations including a Millennium Celebration lecture in Singapore (January 13, 2000) and Special Lectures at the Japan Federation of Economic Societies (2000; 2004). He has been awarded a number of research prizes.

He is an Editor of Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, serves on the Editorial Boards of six other international journals (Journal of Air Transport Management, Transport Policy: The Official Journal of the WCTR Society, Transportation Research E: Logistics & Transport Review, Maritime Economics and Logistics, Journal of Air Transportation, Journal of Logistics and Trade), and until 2005, co-editor of Ashgate Aviation Series. He is a member of the Quality Assurance Board of the Certified Logistics Professional (CLP) Program of Singapore, the External Academic Advisor to the University of Sydney’s Transportation and Logistics program, Toulouse Business School, University of Tokyo’s International Transport Policy Unit (Tokyo-ITPU), and the Department of Logistics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has served as the chairman of the Advisory Committee for Incheon (Seoul) International Airport for its Northeast Asian Logistics Hub Development (2003-2005). He also served in the Advisory Committee to the Minister of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands (2000-2002), and the External Academic Advisor-Examiner of the joint Singapore Aviation Academy-National University of Singapore post-graduate programme (1997-2000), in the International Advisory Committee to the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC: 1995-2001), and a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee for Peaceful Unification of Koreas (2000-2003). Recipient of a National Order of the Republic of Korea (2005).

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