Dr. Le-Griffin is a civil and transportation engineer with over 25 years of experience specialising in port and marine terminal development and planning, including the conceptual planning and layout design of marine terminal and on-dock rail facilities to integrate and optimize overall operational capacities and efficiencies of both water- and land-side operations. Currently Dr. Le-Griffin is Ports & Maritime Practice Lead at Jacobs, and an Adjunct Professor at Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California.
In both academic and professional consulting roles, Dr. Le-Griffin focuses her research, teaching, and professional practice on maritime port and terminal operations, from development planning and operational capacity analyses to integrating infrastructure, equipment, and technology solutions to optimise efficiency and achieve sustainability goals, including those for zero emissions and renewable energy. She also specialises in integrating maritime and surface transportation systems in global gateway regions to coordinate land-use, transportation, and logistics systems development strategies, and to evaluate public policies for regional goods movement.
Dr. Le-Griffin has provided these professional services for both port authorities and private terminal and logistics service providers throughout the US, Canada, the Americas, Europe, and Asia. She is an experienced facilitator of public policy boards and advisory committees and has a proven record of projects delivery in complex cultural and political settings for governmental, institutional, and commercial clients.