Prof. Dr. Nenad Đ. Zrnić was born in 1966 in Belgrade, where he finished elementary and mathematical high school. He graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (FME), University of Belgrade (UB), where he defended his magister thesis in and his doctorate, for which he received the Annual prize of Belgrade Chamber of Commerce. In 2005 he was elected as Assistant Professor at the FME, in 2009 Associate Professor and in 2013 full professor in the field of material handling and logistics. Since 2015 he is a corresponding member of the Academy of Engineering Sciences of Serbia. In the period 2012–2015, he was the Vice Dean for Studies at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Belgrade (ASIIN accreditation of FME study programs in 2013), and 2015–2018 Vice Dean for International Cooperation and member of HERE team. Since 2015 he is a coordinator of one of the working groups for preparing new Serbian Law on a Higher Education. He is president of the Executive Board of the Association of Graduate Mechanical Engineers of Serbia. He is technical expert of Eureka Eurostars programme, member of pool of expert evaluators for H2020 FET OPEN RIA Call 2016-1 and for the Italian Research and University Evaluation Agency (ANVUR) and evaluator of projects supported by the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development. He was an external expert for FP7 project Spider Plus (2013–2015). He is chairman of the Organizing and Scientific Committees of international conferences: MHCL 2006, 2009 and 2012, held in Belgrade, as well as MHCL in 2015, held in Vienna in cooperation with TU Wien. He was a visiting professor at the University of Montenegro, Faculty of Maritime Studies in Kotor (2009–2011), and again since 2016. He was an invited lecturer at foreign universities in Italy – Brescia in 2011 and Greece – Patras, 2013 and at the CEMAT Port Forum (Hannover) in 2014. He was a visiting researcher at TU Wien (Institute for Engineering Design and Technical Logistics), totally 8 months in the period 2003–2011. He is a member of several international scientific societies and their bodies: Europäischen Konferenz der Professoren des Fachkreises Foerdertechnik, IFToMM Technical Committee for Transportation Machinery, IFToMM Permanent Commission for History of Mechanism and Machine Science. He is reviewer in 17 SCI journals and member of editorial board of 4 international journals.

Professor Anna Voroshilova was born in 1970. She graduated from the Krasnoyarsk Pedagogic University in 1995 with the major in Foreign Languages. Since 1995 she has been working in Siberian State Aerospace University, first as a teacher of English, then as the Head of the Foreign Language Department, the Dean of the Humanities Faculty and now as a Vice-Rector for International Cooperation and Additional Education. She has practical experience in organizing international cooperation with foreign partners from more than 15 countries, has been teaching international students in the university, participated in foreign internships, scientific conferences and took part in international projects with USA, Check Republic, Hungary, China, Slovenia, Germany, Great Britain and other countries.

KENNETH BUTTON is a University Professor at George Mason University. Prior to coming to the US in 1996, he was concurrently, Conseiller in the Advisory Unit to the Secretary General of the OECD in Paris; Special Advisor to the UK House of Common Transport Committee, Professor of Applied Economics and Transport at Loughborough University, UK; and VSB Visiting Professor of Transport and the Environment at the Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam. He has also held visiting posts at the Universities of British Columbia, Bologna, Bergamo, California at Berkley, and Inha, Korea. He has twice been President of the Transportation Research Forum. He has served as editor-in-chief of both Transportation Research D: Transport and the Environment and the Journal of Air Transport Management. Dr. Button’s training was in the fields of economics, econometrics and transportation planning. He has published, or has in press, over 100 academic books, over 400 papers in academic journals and edited volumes, and forecasting software.

Professor Pawar holds a chair in Operations Management and is the Director of the Centre for Concurrent Enterprise. He has extensive industrial and consultancy experience in a variety of multi-national enterprises around the globe in the area of new product design & development (NPD), logistics and supply chain management, manufacturing and operations management. His research interests include management of New Product Design and Development (NPD), Analysis and configurations of logistics and supply chain networks and operations in different contexts, sectors in Europe, China and India. He has published over 300 papers, including articles in leading international journals such as the International Journal of Operations and Production Management, International Journal of Production Economics, R&D Management, Technovation, Concurrent Engineering and Manufacturing Technology Management. He is the founder and Chairman of the International Symposium on Logistics (www.ISL21.org), which has been held annually over the last two decades in Europe and other parts of the world. He has also been co-organising the International Conference on Concurrent Enterprising (ICE) since 1994. He was Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Logistics: Research & Application (2002-2007) and is a member of editorial boards of several journals. Professor Pawar has been involved in more than thirty funded research projects and has coordinated and managed a number of national, European and international projects and networks. Professor Pawar sits on several international professional committees, boards and expert panels.