Naima Saeed is a Professor in Supply Chain Management at the School of Business and Law at the University of Agder, Norway. 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 PhD in Logistics from Molde University College, Norway. Saeed has published in journals such as the European Journal of Operational Research, Computers in Industry, Transportation Science, Maritime Economics & Logistics, and Maritime Policy & Management. Before joining the University of Agder, Saeed worked as an Associate Professor in Logistics at Molde University College. She has also worked as a consultant in a project financed by the VRI program of The Research Council of Norway.