Head of Ship Technology Systems, Maersk Mc-Kinney MølIer Center for Zero Carbon Shipping
Peter Lystrup Christensen has experience with the development of technical innovation and retrofit projects within WTG and the shipping industry. He has spent the last 10 years in shipping, working with topics such as wind propulsions, digitalization and general energy efficiency technologies. He holds an MSc in engineering from the Danish Technical University.
Public Affairs Lead, Copenhagen Malmö Port
Malthe Mulvad is Public Affairs Lead at the Communications and Sustainability Department at Copenhagen Malmö Port. He has a background within international politics and regulatory affairs and has worked extensively with external relations and policy in both public, non-profit, and private sectors. Malthe has worked with CMP since April 2022.
Professor Mary S. Wisz’ research aims to understand and forecast how marine social ecological systems respond to changes in climate and human activities. She uses dynamic spatial modelling tools that integrate information coming from many branches of the environmental sciences (e.g. oceanographics, biodiversity, ecosystem monitoring, fisheries, genetics), along with socioeconomics, to inform the ecological and economic consequences of management decisions. She has worked on a range of projects from the tropics to the Arctic, from the coasts to the deep sea. Prof. Wisz has worked in research universities, government research institutes and industry. She teaches in WMUs Ocean Sustainability Governance and Management specialization and leads the course on Area Based Management.
The founder, owner and CEO of Actia Forum Ltd established in 2000. Since 2006 the Secretary General of the Baltic Ports Organization.
Mr. Bogdan Oldakowski graduated from the University of Gdańsk in the field of Physical Oceanography and postgraduate studies in Law and Management at the Gdańsk University of Technology.
In years 1996-2003 he worked at various positions in the Port of Gdańsk Authority including chairmanship of the Environment Committee of the Baltic Ports Organization. Involved in work of several international transport related organizations: e.g. European Sea Ports Organization and International Maritime Organization.
He is a member of business and industry advisory and expert bodies, among others member of European Ports Forum at the European Commission.
Executive Vice Chairman of the Korea Shipowner’s Association
For the past 35 years, Dr. Chang-Ho Yang have devoted his career to studying Korea’s maritime, port, logistics industry as a researcher and professor.
He has B.A. from Yonsei University, MBA in Business Administration from Yonsei University and Ph.D in Business Administration from Sogang University.
He served as a Senior Research Fellow (1987-2008), and as the President (2016-2019) of the Korea Maritime Institute (KMI) and as a professor of Graduate School of Logistics, Incheon National University (2008-2021).
He wrote a total of 26 papers, 22 textbooks, book and research reports, and 36 project reports, and contributed about 200 columns to the media. His primary research interests are in the areas of ‘Maritime Economics’, ‘Port Operation and Development’ and ‘Transport Logistics’.
He is currently holding a position as Executive Vice Chairman of the Korea Shipowners’ Association since January 2023.
Founder, Maritime SheEO
Sanjam Sahi Gupta is Director for Sitara Shipping Pvt Ltd.She is an advocate for gender diversity in maritime.
She is a founder member of Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association (WISTA) India thereby creating a platform for women in maritime in India.
She was a major force in bringing out the “Diversity Handbook” in 2018 and the second version in 2022 by WISTA International along with ISWAN and Anglo Eastern.
She’s a member of the Executive Board of Directors of the World Maritime University .
In May 2018, she was the recipient of the Sandvik Gender Award –for her outstanding contribution and commitment to gender equality.
In June 2019 she was invited as part of a High Level panel initiative by The Norwegian Prime Minister, Erna Solberg for a Sustainable Ocean Economy,
To further her commitment to Diversity in the maritime and Logistics industry, she has launched Maritime SheEO to provide solutions to the industry.
She is also part of the Diversity Committee of the International Chamber of Shipping.
She is a gender expert empanelled by the UN ESCAP and International Maritime Organization and is committed to driving change for a more inclusive maritime industry.
She was given a letter of commendation by the IMO Secretary General in 2024 for her commitment towards gender equality.
Professor, Shipping Finance at Bayes Business School
Nikos Nomikos is Professor of Shipping Finance at Bayes Business School (formerly Cass). He is the Academic Director of the Bayes Dubai Executive MBA Program and the former Director of the MSc in Shipping, Trade and Finance.
His area of expertise is Ship Finance, Risk Management and Asset Pricing for Shipping and Commodity Markets. Examples of his research include the development of ship valuation models, designing shipping indices and market benchmarks, structuring risk management products, valuation of freight derivative contracts, big-data analytics for assessing market dynamics and sustainable finance. Nikos has published more than 50 papers in peer-review academic journals. He has co-authored the book “Shipping Derivatives and Risk Management” considered the leading reference book in this area.
Nikos commenced his career at the Baltic Exchange as Head of Market Analytics where he oversaw the development of shipping indices that are currently used in the market as pricing benchmarks. Being interested in applied and commercially viable research, Nikos collaborates widely with corporations both as consultant as well as in executive education. He also acts as expert witness on shipping-related cases.
Nikos lectures on Finance, Economics, Asset pricing and Risk Management for the MSc, MBA and PhD programs. He is also Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers.
Dr. Matteo Del Chicca has been Research Associate at WMU and Research Fellow at the Department of Law of the University of Pisa. He has been a team member of several national and international research projects, and he participated as speaker to many national and international conferences. He lectured International Law, EU Law, and International Organizations Law at the University of Pisa, and he authored one book, as well as publications in peer-reviewed journals and in edited books. He has been a member of the Board of the Research Doctorate School in Law of the University of Pisa, and he is currently member of the Editorial Committee of “Scienza e Pace – Science and Peace” Review. He was a key staff member of a Jean Monnet Module, and he is currently part of the academic staff of a Jean Monnet Chair.
Associate Professor of Environmental and Climate Change Law, University of Copenhagen
Dr. Beatriz Martinez Romera is associate professor of environmental and climate change law at the University of Copenhagen Faculty of Law. She has a keen interest in the international climate negotiations, and the regulatory processes at the International Civil Aviation Organization and the International Maritime Organization, as well as the developments at the EU level. For the last 13 years Dr. Martinez Romera has been teaching and researching on the field of climate, environment and energy transition law. She is the coordinator of the master courses on Climate Change Law and International Environmental Law and the Advanced LLM on Energy Law (NSELP). In 2020 she was awarded the Young Investigator Carlsberg Foundation Grant for a 3-year project on International Law-Making: Actors in Shipping and Climate Change. She is PI for a number of research projects including the Independent Research Fund Denmark project Enhancing Climate Action through International Law and the NOS-HS project Climate Change and Ocean Governance: Understanding International and Regional Ocean Regimes through the Lens of Climate Change.
Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Pusan National University, Korea
Dr. Hyerim Bae is the Dean of the Graduate School of Data Science at Pusan National University, Korea. He holds a Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Seoul National University. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Bae made significant contributions as a manager in the information strategic planning team at Samsung Card Corporation.
Dr. Bae’s academic leadership encompasses several key positions, including Executive Chair of the AP-BPM Steering Committee since September 2012, Chair of the Busan Global Data Hub Center since July 2014, and member of the advisory board for Busan Metropolitan City since September 2016. He further enhanced his expertise as a visiting scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology from March 2016 to February 2017. Currently, Dr. Bae serves as Vice President of both the Korean Society of Supply Chain Management and the Korea Big Data Society.
From 2019 to 2022, Dr. Bae directed the Intelligent Port Logistics Technology project, a national initiative sponsored by the Korean government. He currently leads the Human-Centered Carbon Neutral Global Supply Chain Research Center, also supported by the Korean government. His research primarily focuses on AI applications, operational big data analytics, and process analytics, with applications in Industry 4.0, smart ports, smart factories, and logistics information systems.
A prolific researcher, Dr. Bae has authored over 140 journal articles and 200 conference papers. His work includes more than 50 papers in SCI/E indexed journals and over 30 in Scopus indexed journals. His research has been published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Information Sciences, Neurocomputing, Pattern Recognition, International Journal of Production Research, Journal of Industrial Ecology, and Expert Systems with Applications, among others.
Dr. Bae also serves as an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information, and Control.