Christopher B. Clott, Ph.D.

Dr. Christopher Clott

Dr. Christopher B. Clott
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Center for Advances in Port Management

Phone: 773-936-8662 (Cell)
Email: cclott@lamar.edu
Office: C1615 Cherry Building

Vita

Background

Christopher (Chris) Clott Ph.D. has worked in the Maritime logistics field for shipping companies and universities for 40 years. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the Center for Advances in Port Management at Lamar University and Co-Founder of Marine Startups, a maritime innovation center.

Previous roles have been at SUNY Maritime in New York where he founded the New York Maritime Innovation Center (NYMIC), California Maritime Academy in the Bay Area, and the University of St. Francis, Elmhurst University, and St. Xavier University in metropolitan Chicago. Chris worked for OOCL (USA) and Lykes Lines in the shipping industry prior to academia. Chris has published research and worked with firms seeking to introduce new maritime technologies.

Chris has a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois-Chicago, an M.B.A. from St. Xavier University, and a B.A. from Fordham University.

Education

Ph.D.; Public Policy Analysis, University of Illinois Chicago, 1994
Major: Higher Education Policy Studies. Related Fields: Management, Economics and Research Methods.
Dissertation: “Predictors of Organizational Effectiveness in Schools of Business”

M.B.A., Marketing, Graham School of Management, Saint Xavier College, 1986

B.A., Urban Studies, Fordham University, 1977

Certificate, Korean Business and Culture Studies- Yonsei University, 1990

Certificate, Export-Import Program - College of Advanced Traffic Management - 1982