Lauri
Ojala
Professor, Operations & Supply Chain Management
Areas of expertise
International logistics
maritime & port economics and supply chain management
Biography
Dr. Lauri Ojala is Professor of Logistics at the Turku School of Economics, University of Turku (FI) since 1997. Adjunct Professor of Logistics at Linköping University (SE) and at National Defence University (FI). CEO of logscale oy, a supply chain compliance consultancy.
He has worked as an expert e.g. for The World Bank, EC, ADB, OECD and UNECE, and for Ministries of Transport of several countries. Initiator of WB’s biennial Logistics Performance Index since 2007. He also heads the biennial Finnish Logistics Surveys, which comprise the largest national logistics survey database in the world.
Since 2006, Project Director of five EU-projects with a combined volume of 16+ M€, incl. Baltic Sea Region projects HAZARD on Seaport Safety & Security in 2016-2019 and OIL SPILL on combatting coastal oil spills in 2018-2021.
Publications
Merenkulun huoltovarmuus ja Suomen elinkeinoelämä – Toimintaympäristön tarkastelu vuoteen 2030 (2018)
(Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti taikka -selvitys (D4))Supply chain perspective on competitive strategies and green supply chain management strategies (2017)
Journal of Cleaner Production
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Estimating the ship dismantling capacity in compliance with the European Union’s Ship Recycling Regulation (2017)
International Conference on Logistics and Transport, Proceedings of the international conference on logistics and transport
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa (A4))
Determinants of carrier selection: updating the survey methodology into the 21st century (2017)
World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR), Transportation Research Procedia
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa (A4))
Finland State of Logistics 2016 (2017)
(Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti taikka -selvitys (D4))International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management (2017)
(Toimitustyö tieteelliselle lehdelle, kokoomateokselle tai konferenssijulkaisulle (C2))THE World Bank's Logistics Performance Index (LPI) and its Policy-making Impact (2017)
Production and Operations Management Society Conference
(O2 Muu julkaisu )
Merenkulun kansainvälisen ilmasto- ja ympäristösääntelyn vaikutukset Suomen elinkeinoelämälle (2017)
(Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti taikka -selvitys (D4))Cybersecurity in ports : a conceptual approach (2017)
Hamburg International Conference of Logistics
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa (A4))
Editorial for NOFOMA 2016 conference special issue (SI) (2017)
International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management
(Kirjoitus tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (B1))