2023 | Jean-Paul Rodrigue

2023 Annual Lecture: The Transport Geography of E-Commerce: Amazon's Distributional Hierarchy

The 2023 Annual Lecture of Finisterra took place on 19 October and featured Jean-Paul Rodrigue as guest speaker, presenting the lecture titled "The Transport Geography of E-Commerce: Amazon’s Distributional Hierarchy".

Jean-Paul Rodrigue holds a PhD in Transport Geography from the Université de Montréal (1994) and has been teaching at Hofstra University, New York, since 1999. His research focuses on the relationship between transport and the economy, particularly in the fields of logistics, intermodal transport, and the global distribution of goods. He is the author of seven books, 32 book chapters, and over 60 scientific articles, ranking among the top 2% of the most cited scholars worldwide. His most renowned works include The Geography of Transport Systems (2006) and Port Economics, Management and Policy (2022). Rodrigue serves on the editorial boards of several international journals, is a member of the University Transportation Research Center, and a leading member of the PortEconomics.eu initiative. In 2019, he received the Edward L. Ullman Award for his contribution to the field of transport geography, and in 2022, he was appointed Distinguished Fellow at the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study / Department of Maritime Business Administration, Texas A&M University.