Nathan Hutson is an Assistant Professor of urban planning at the University of North Texas. His research focuses on freight infrastructure coordination and its role in economic development. He has fifteen years of freight planning research and consulting experience. Over the last year he has worked extensively with the World Bank and the Ro3kvit Urban Coalition for Ukraine in assessing the impact on the Ukraine invasion on supply chains and implications for Ukrainian reconstruction. He holds a PhD in Urban Planning and Development from the University of Southern California. In the Fall he will be teaching an applied research course on Ukraine reconstruction at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, from which he also holds a masters of Public Affairs and a Master of Russian East European and Eurasian Studies.