by Solent University and in 2010 he was the winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Lloyds List Global Shipping Awards Dinner. He is also a Visiting Professor at Cass Business School, Dalian Maritime University, Copenhagen Business School and Newcastle University. Writing The first edition of “Maritime Economics” was published Allan and Unwin in 1988. It was the first text book to set out a broad economic framework of the international shipping business which transported over 8 billion tonnes of cargo in 2011. Second and third editions were published by Routledge in 1997 and 2009. In 2005 Maritime Economics was awarded the Chojeong Book Prize for “making a significant contribution to the development of maritime transport and logistics academically and practically”. Personal life Martin Stopford has two children, Benjamin and Elizabeth. He lives in London where he cycles to work in the City each day and still keeps a motorcycle. A lifelong horticulturalist, he is a keen gardener and manages a small organic hill farm in Staffordshire Moorlands. Publications A Collection of papers by Martin Stopford Website mlecs.com The website started as a resource for the book Maritime Economics, but it now includes information about institutions around the world which run maritime courses, and a Study Centre where students can watch video lectures, read papers, take tests, and monitor their progress, either self-supervised or supervised by an authorised tutor. References 1947 births Living people British economists Alumni of Keble College, Oxford Alumni of Birkbeck, University of London Academics of Bayes Business School