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Olumide Bolarinwa Ajayi

Principal Manager
Nigerian Ports Authority

Ajayi B. Olumide is currently a Principal Manager (Environment) with Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA). He is an environmental specialist with over 20 years of work experience in Port Administration, Marine Environmental Management, as well as Maritime Energy Management. He holds a Master of Science (MSc) Degree in Maritime Energy Management from World Maritime University (WMU), Sweden. He was the recipient of the 2017 C. P. Srivastava Award.

He is the cross-functional team lead of the Nigerian Ports Authority’s Energy Management Team. He is also a member of the NPA-NIMASA Technical Committee on the Development of the Road Map for the Implementation of Slow Steaming in Nigeria’s Contiguous Zone, as well as IOPC Funds and NPA Desk Officer on the subject matter.

Maximo Q. Mejia, Jr.

President Designate
World Maritime University

Max Mejia is Nippon Foundation Professor of Maritime Governance, Policy, and Administration at the World Maritime University (WMU), where he has been a member of the resident faculty since 1998. He also currently serves as Director of the PhD Program.

Dr. Mejia is author/co-author of more than 70 published articles, chapters, and papers and the editor/co-editor of 11 books. His focus areas of research and teaching are maritime policy, maritime law, maritime labour law and policy, human factors, safety, and security-related issues.

He earned his Bachelor of Science at the United States Naval Academy (Annapolis, Maryland, USA) and his Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy at the Fletcher School (Tufts University, Massachusetts, USA). He also has a Master of Science in Maritime Safety Administration from the World Maritime University (Malmö, Sweden) and a Licentiate of Engineering and Doctor of Philosophy from Lund University (Lund, Sweden).

Before joining WMU, he saw duty on board various naval and coast guard vessels as well as in shore-based facilities in the Philippines. His assignments included, inter alia, Commanding Officer of Port State Control Office Manila, Commander of Coast Guard Station Iligan, Deputy Executive Director of the Presidential Task Force on Maritime Development, and Assistant Chief of Staff for Navigational Safety. Dr. Mejia took a sabbatical from the World Maritime University to serve as Administrator (Director General) of the Maritime Industry Authority (MARINA) from 2013 to 2016. MARINA is the maritime administration in the Philippines, tasked with integrating the development, promotion, and regulation of the maritime industry. As Administrator, Dr. Mejia was chief architect and implementer of a comprehensive reform of the country’s maritime education, training, and certification system as well as other wide-ranging maritime safety improvement programs. In 2013, Lloyd’s List included Dr. Mejia in its list of the world’s 100 Most Influential Persons in the Shipping Industry.

Julie Carlton

Head of Seafarers
Maritime and Coastguard Agency
United Kingdom

Julie Carlton joined the Department for Transport in 1987 and moved to the Marine Safety Agency (now the MCA) in 1995. As Head of the MCA’s Seafarer Safety and Health Branch since 2009, Julie has responsibility for living and working conditions for seafarers and fishermen, including implementation of the MLC, 2006 and the ILO Work in Fishing Convention, 2007 (ILO 188), which the UK ratified in 2013 and 2019 respectively. She also has responsibility for seafarer health and safety policy, seafarer medical issues and the MCA’s Human Element strategy. Julie chaired the ILO’s Special Tripartite Committee on the MLC from 2018 to 2022. In 2019, she was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to maritime safety.

Aykut I. Ölcer

Director of Maritime Research and Professor
World Maritime University

Professor Dr. Aykut I. ÖLÇER is a naval architect and marine engineer holding the Nippon Foundation Professorial Chair in “Marine Technology and Innovation” at the World Maritime University (WMU). He is currently the Director of Research of WMU as well as the Head of Maritime Energy Management Specialization (MSc program). He served as the Editor-in-Chief of WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs (JOMA) and Book Series between February’17 and February’19. Prior to joining WMU, he worked at Newcastle University (England), University of Strathclyde (Scotland) and Istanbul Technical University (Türkiye) within the fields of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. He played an important role in Newcastle University’s first international branch in Singapore to help the University achieve its objectives in teaching/learning and research activities in the UG and PG programs of Marine Technology.

For many years, he has conducted research independently/jointly and collaborated with other researchers, academics and students all over the world, in particular from Europe and Asia. Dr Ölçer was involved in numerous EU funded FP5, FP6, FP7, Horizon 2020 and EU Horizon projects and IMO projects as well as IAMU and regional projects in Scandinavia. He currently leads the research priority areas, namely ‘Maritime Energy Management” and “Marine Technology and Innovation”, at WMU. He has published results of his research in leading, internationally peer-reviewed journals such as “Journal of Cleaner Production”, “Fuel Processing Technology”, “European Journal of Operational Research”, “Computers and Operational Research”, “Applied Soft Computing”, “Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment” and so on. He is the main Editor of the book “Trends and Challenges in Maritime Energy Management ”, which was one of the most downloaded Springer books in 2018. He delivered keynote speeches all over the world, in particular in the discipline of maritime decarbonisation.