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(male) has 20 years of academic research experience in agri-food supply chains, acting as a principal investigator on three EU projects (COMPETE, FOCUS BALKANS, SCARLED) and co-ordinator of H2020 project Strength2Food. He has published over 20 articles in highly ranked journals (ABS2015 journal rankings). He is an associate editor of the Journal of Agricultural Economics and member of the editorial board for Studies in Agricultural Economics and Journal of Integrated Agriculture. He has also undertaken research for DG AGRI, EU Parliament, World Bank, FAO and OECD.

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(female) is a Senior lecturer in Rural Economy. Trained as an agricultural economist she has substantial experience in EU-funded projects (e.g. SCARLED, WELFARE QUALITY, COMPETE, ECONWELFARE and EDORA) and other regional/national projects. She sits on the Executive Board of the Agricultural Economics Society and the EuroChoices review and on two regional stakeholders steering groups, the North East Farming and Rural Advisory Network and the North East Rural Growth Network. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Agricultural Economics and member of the editorial board for Studies in Agricultural Economics. She has also undertaken research for the OECD, EU Parliament and the World Bank. She has significant interdisciplinary experience working with natural and social scientists across various disciplines. She has published in leading journals such as Food Policy, Environment and Planning C, Regional Studies, Animal Welfare and Veterinary Record. She was CRE Research Manager between 2009 and 2014.

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(male) is Visiting Researcher at Newcastle University working for VALUMICS project. He is Full Professor of Marketing and Sustainability at Vlerick Business School. He has published in high impact academic journals, including the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science and Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Product Innovation Management International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Supply Chain Management – An International Journal, Journal of Industrial Ecology. He won the IJPDLM Emerald Literati Award for Excellence Price for one of his papers. Fred currently co-authors a book on Sustainability and Marketing and is also a coediting a book on Supply Chain Management. He was Director of Research at Newcastle University Business School.

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(female) is Visiting Researcher at Newcastle University working for VALUMICS project. She is Senior Lecturer in Procurement and Operations Management at the University of Birmingham, Department of Management. Her research interests lie in sustainable supply chains, reverse logistics/ closed-loop supply chains, optimisation, continuous approximation, modelling, vehicle routing, inventory routing and transportation management. She has been engaged in high-impact research which focuses on designing algorithms and applying sustainability strategies to solve transportation problems. She has presented her research at international Operations Research/ Management Science/ Operations Management conferences and published in leading international OR/MS/OM journals (most of which are 3* ABS2015 journal rankings).

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(male) has been researching transportation and logistics studies for over 10 years. He joined Newcastle University Business School in 2017 as Research Associate to work on VALUMICS project. Previously, he has contributed to various EU research funded projects in themes including ‘urban freight economics’ and ‘urban transport systems’ and ‘freight green corridors’.  He has experience of quantitative micro and macro transport econometric modelling approach as well as qualitative transport and logistics research.

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