Category Archives for "Moderators"

Sue Jackson

University Registrar and Head of Accreditation Matters
World Maritime University

After a career in the UK HE sector, Sue joined WMU in 1993.

For the last decade, Sue has led and managed the University Registry, which takes care of student administration throughout a student’s life-cycle, from an initial enquiry, through admission, enrolment, student records, student health and welfare, graduation and the associated documentation, and alumni relations matters.

The University Registry manages and runs the official student record and statistics, University legislation relating to students, and is involved in marketing WMU’s degree programmes. We are responsible for liaison with and reporting to all fellowship donors, and any supporting Memoranda of Understanding.

The University Registry provides all necessary data to the Government of Sweden relating to students and programmes, and also liaises on student migration issues. It also creates, publishes and distributes the University’s Academic Handbook and a number of other University publications.

Henning Jessen

Professor, Maritime Law & Policy
World Maritime University

Dr. Jessen joined the WMU in 2016 (Maritime Law & Policy specialization). Since 2018, he is the Programme Coordinator of WMU’s Postgraduate Diploma in Marine Insurance Law & Practice, in 2022 he joined the editorial board of WMU’s Journal of Maritime Affairs. He is a fully qualified lawyer in his German home jurisdiction and graduated from the University of Kiel in 2002. Supported by a Scholarship of the German-American Fulbright Commission Dr. Jessen undertook postgraduate studies in 2003-2004 (Admiralty and Maritime Law) in the United States at Tulane Law School, New Orleans. In 2005, he received his PhD from Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, with highest honours (summacum laude).

From 2006 to 2008, Dr. Jessen worked for the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. Since 2008, he has been working as a Professor of Maritime Law and the Law of the Sea, at two universities in the German maritime hubs of Bremen (2008-2012) and Hamburg (2012-2016). Dr. Jessen has co-edited and authored an extensive commentary on the EU’s regulatory activity in maritime transport law. His main areas of teaching and research are legal aspects of IMO Conventions and related EU Law as well as the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), carriage of goods by sea law, marine insurance, international transport law across all modes and related trade facilitation.

Maria Carolina Romero Lares

Associate Professor; Head of Maritime Law and Policy
World Maritime University

Dr. Romero has been a member of the Faculty of Law at the World Maritime University since 2011 and currently serves as the Head of the Maritime Law and Policy Specialization. She received her Law degree from the Andrés Bello Catholic University in Venezuela and an LL.M. degree from Tulane University in the U.S. before earning a Ph.D. with honors (cum laude) from Leibniz Universität Hannover in Germany.

Dr. Romero’s academic career began in 2005 when she joined the Venezuelan Maritime University as a part-time professor. In addition to her teaching duties, she served as Coordinator at the International Affairs Office of the Venezuelan Maritime Administration. She later became the Head of that office and represented her country at several international meetings at the International Maritime Organization and the International Oil Pollution Funds in London.

With firsthand professional experience both as a delegate at international forums representing her homeland and in the classroom, Dr. Romero brings a unique perspective to the Maritime Law and Policy Specialization. She lectures on International Organizations and Maritime Conventions, the Law of the Sea, and the Protection of the Marine Environment and oversees these courses. In addition, she organizes the annual Moot Court Competition, which focuses on current issues of the Law of the Sea, along with a field study trip to The Hague and Hamburg. She has also been invited to lecture at the IFLOS Summer Academy at ITLOS in Hamburg, Germany.

Dr. Romero places great importance on cooperation activities with Latin America and the Caribbean and has already organized two regional conferences there: the “Maritime and Port Sectors in the Americas: Challenges and Opportunities in Light of the SDGs” conference in Lima, Peru in 2017 and the “Second Regional Conference: Maritime Transport and Ocean Policies: Regional Perspectives for the Americas” in Veracruz, Mexico in 2019.

Dong-Wook Song

Dong-Wook Song is Republic of Korea Chair and Professor of Maritime Economics and Logistics at the World Maritime University, Sweden. Prior to the current post, he worked at Edinburgh Napier and Heriot-Watt University in the UK, and Hong Kong University. He holds a BA(Hons) with First Class in Shipping Management from Korea Maritime University, an MSc in International Shipping and Logistics, and a PhD in Maritime Economics and Logistics from the University of Plymouth, UK. He also attended an Industrial Economics Course at the London School of Economics.

Professor Song has received a number of academic awards including ‘The Maritime Policy and Management Award for the Best Paper’ at the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME) Annual Conferences in 1999 and 2001; ‘The Best Paper Award’ at the Asian Association of Shipping and Logistics in 2008; and ‘The Best Paper of the Year 2009’ at the “International Journal of Logistics Research and Application”. He is a Chartered Member of The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT), and has held a number of visiting posts at the Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia; the University of Reading, UK; BEM Bordeaux Management School, France; the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago; Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Maritime University, and Dalian Maritime University China; University of Antwerp, Belgium; and University of Agder, Norway.

He is currently an Editor-in-Chief of “WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs”, a former Associate Editor (2011-2018) of “Maritime Policy and Management”, and sits on editorial boards at highly regarded transport and logistics journals. He has worked as a consultant for a number of private and public organisations including the UN, OECD, ADB and World Bank. Professor Song served IAME, a premier academic association in the field of maritime transport and logistics, as an elected Council Member for twelve years (2004-2010; 2012-2018), being among the longest serving Council Members for the Association.

One of his co-authored papers in 2006 is recently enlisted by Google Scholar (2017) as a classic paper in the entire field of transportation. In addition, an article in “Transport Reviews” (2013) shows that his works in port research are highly ranked – among the top listed over the last three decades (1980-2009). Another article in “Maritime Policy and Management” (2013) lists his two papers, published in 2003 and 2002, are among the top 30 most cited papers over the whole forty-year-history of the journal (1973-2013). His prolific-but-impact-bearing-refereed publications are a product from his keen interest in managerial and strategic aspects of global shipping, port and logistics. See Citation Index for more of his research works.

Daniel Moon

Professor, Head of Port Management, Director of the PhD Programme
World Maritime University

Dr. Moon is currently a Professor at the World Maritime University. Dr. Moon earned his Ph.D. degree in Port Economics from Cardiff University, UK. His area of teaching and research has been closely related to ports in terms of management, operation and logistics. He also has a specialty in Maritime Education & Training (MET) based upon his experiences in educating students at Korea Maritime University (KMU) where he has worked for more than 25 years. He has a qualified First Class Navigation Certificate (non-limited) and has been aboard ship more than 10 years including as a chief mate at HMM and a captain at KMU Training Ship. He has widely published articles and books that concern ports and MET. He has been involved in many research projects for public organizations as well as private companies in terms of maritime and ports activities. He is a member of the Institute of Logistics and Transport, the Chartered Institute of Transport, and the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME).

Claudio Aporta

Claudio Aporta was born and raised in the province of Mendoza, Argentina – where he completed his BA in Communication at Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. He moved to Canada in 1997, and he earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Alberta.  He was also a Postdoctoral Fellow at Université Laval, in Quebec. He was a faculty member in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University (2005–2013) and at the Marine Affairs Program at Dalhousie University). He held the Canada-US Fulbright Chair at the University of Washington in 2012. He is also a faculty member of the Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre at Carleton University. His research is at a crossroads between Marine Management, Anthropology and Geography.  

Professor Aporta has done ethnographic research in the Canadian Arctic since 1998. He has documented Inuit knowledge and use of marine and coastal areas in all regions of the Canadian Arctic. His research has also focused on the geographic representation of indigenous environmental knowledge. Some outcomes of his work include the co-creation of digital atlases (see http://paninuittrails.org/, and http://sikuatlas.ca/index.html, https://www.ntkp.ca/, https://www.anijaarniq.com/, http://pikialasorsuaq.org/en/Resources/Pikialasorsuaq-Atlas ).

His current teaching and research interests are connected to co-management, Marine Spatial Planning, indigenous and local coastal communities’ knowledge, and knowledge mobilization in cross-cultural settings. His ongoing projects include documenting Inuit mobility networks in Arctic Canada, researching the impact of shipping in areas of significance to Inuit communities, and exploring knowledge visualization and knowledge sharing of benthic ecosystems in several marine and coastal areas of Nova Scotia.

Francis Neat

Professor Neat joined WMU 2019 where he is currently Head of Specialization for Ocean Sustainability, Governance and Management in WMU’s Masters in Maritime Affairs. From Scotland, he has a broad research background in freshwater and marine ecosystems and management. He received his PhD from Glasgow University and undertook post-doctoral work in Italy, Austria and the US. For many years he was a principal researcher at the Scottish Government’s Marine Laboratory. Before joining WMU, he was Head of Strategic Research at the Marine Stewardship Council.

His past research focused on deep water marine ecosystems, the migration of fish and the impacts of fishing on the marine environment. His research has been applied to fisheries management and marine policy development, including the implementation of a network of Marine Protected Areas and the EU policy on deep-water fishing regulations. He has a particular interest in the marine ecosystems, fisheries and management of the High Seas. He has published around90 peer review papers and undertaken extensive science advisory work for the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, IUCN, FAO and the European Commission at the UN. His current research is interdisciplinary being focused on IUU fishing, marine debris and Sargassum in the Caribbean, gender equality in ocean science, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

His teaching experience has been mainly at Masters level and includes fish ecology(Aberdeen University) and global fisheries (Imperial College, London). He currently teaches the “Ocean Processes and Human Impacts” course at WMU. He has supervised numerous post-graduate students, many to PhD level.

Raphael Baumler

Raphael Baumler holds a Ph.D. in Risk Management and focuses his academic work on the impact of the vessel’s socioeconomical environment on safety and environment.

Primarily educated as a dual officer, he has worked on various types of vessels. Dr. Baumler spent 20 years in a seafaring career. He ended this occupation after six years as Master on a large container ship. His sea life drove him to work as Staff Captain on a cruise ship, and he completed various assignments as dual Junior Officer on board container ship, ferry, VLCC and supply vessel.

He participates or leads IMO national and regional workshops on MARPOL Annex VI and Ballast Water Management Convention.

He conducted various IMO projects and participated in several other research projects.

Michael Ekow Manuel

Professor and Nippon Foundation Chair; Head, Maritime Education & Training; Academic Dean
World Maritime University

Dr. Michael Ekow MANUEL was until May 2013 the Dean of Faculty of Maritime Studies at the Regional Maritime University in Ghana. Previous to that, he was Head of Research and Consultancy at the same Institution. He is a Master Mariner and worked on ships for eleven years culminating in an appointment as Master (Ship Captain).

He holds degrees in Maritime Affairs (MSc.) and Maritime Administration (PhD) from the World Maritime University with ITF and Sheldon Kinney Fellowships respectively.

Dr. Manuel has offered consultancy services in national and international contexts (private and public), including to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

He is the author of the book Maritime risk and organizational learning published by Ashgate in London and other articles in peer-reviewed academic journals.

Jens-Uwe Schröder-Hinrichs

Vice-President (Academic Affairs) and Professor
World Maritime University

Professor Jens-Uwe Schröder-Hinrichs is Vice-President (Academic Affairs) of the World Maritime University (WMU), a university established by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), a specialized agency of the United Nations.

He oversees and directs the development of the academic agenda and related activities to strengthen the academic profile of the University, and is responsible for the academic developments needed to keep WMU as the global centre of excellence in maritime and ocean education, research and capacity building. In this, he is supported by a wide range of experience gathered over two decades, during which he has taken on increasingly responsible academic and managerial roles at WMU.

Professor Schröder-Hinrichs is an internationally recognized maritime safety expert with special emphasis on the implementation and enforcement of the legal instruments of the IMO, the parent body of WMU. Professor Schröder-Hinrichs has been involved for more than 20 years in numerous capacity-building missions during which he advised IMO member State administrations in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and Northern America as well as the Black Sea and Caspian Sea areas on issues related to their international obligations under various instruments of the IMO.

In recent years Professor Schröder-Hinrichs developed a strong interest in the implications of increased levels of automation and new technologies in maritime transport. He was the principal investigator for “Transport 2040: Automation, Technology, Employment – The Future of Work”, which was commissioned by the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and launched in 2019.