Martin Humphreys

World Bank

Lead Transport Economist

Martin Humphreys is a Lead Transport Economist and the Global Lead for Connectivity and Logistics, with a focus on ports, maritime and the inland water transport sector, at the World Bank. He has been working in the transport sector for nearly 30 years in a number of different countries/regions, including inter alia, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Eastern Europe, Russia, South Asia, Central Asia, East Asia, the South Caucasus, the Baltic States, and the Western Balkan countries, and Eastern and Southern Africa. His experience covers roads, railways, inland waterways and maritime ports, public private partnerships, and trade and transport facilitation, in post-conflict, fragile, and low and middle income countries. Martin has a first degree in Economics, and a Master’s Degree and Ph.D in Transport Economics.

Sessions With Martin Humphreys

Thursday, 2 November

  • 09:45am - 10:30am (GST) / 02/nov/2023 05:45 am - 02/nov/2023 06:30 am

    Panel: New Business Models and Governance Configurations for Port Authorities

    The World Bank is in the process of reforming its well-known Port Reform Toolkit, which has been used by countries and their ports to establish what is now seen as the standard private-public concessioning model of a landlord port. Since then, energy transition, accelerated digitalization and the need for greater resilience to shocks as well as port community demands for port authorities to act as community builders challenge that model. In this session delegates will get an insight into the new World Bank Port Reform Toolkit in the making and how this will support future-proof port governance in practice.

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