Category Archives for "Speaker"

Keyyong Hong

President, Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering (KRISO)

Dr. Keyyong Hong, President of the Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering (KRISO), leads cutting-edge research in ships and ocean engineering. He earned his Ph.D. in Ocean Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1993, following his M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Naval Architecture from Seoul National University.

Dr. Hong served as Chairman of the East Asian Marine Environment and Energy Network (EAMEN2) from 2020 to 2021, where he provided a platform for East Asian researchers, engineers, and graduate students to exchange innovative ideas in marine environmental engineering and management. As President of The Korean Society for Marine Environment and Energy (KOSMEE) from 2017 to 2018, he directed efforts to advance scientific and technological developments in marine environmental science, marine energy engineering, maritime policy, and multidisciplinary technologies.

From 2014 to 2015, Dr. Hong was Vice President at KRISO, managing key research divisions including Advanced Ship Research, Offshore Plant Research, Maritime Safety Research, Ocean System Engineering, and the Technology Center for Offshore Plant Industries and Seawater Utilization Plant Research. Additionally, he served as Executive Committee Vice-Chairman for the International Energy Agency’s Ocean Energy Systems (IEA-OES) from 2014 to 2016, where he facilitated international cooperation on ocean energy strategies, legislation, R&D, and implementation.

Young-Shik Kim

Director / Principal Researcher, Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering

Dr. Young-Shik Kim is the director of the Alternative Fuels and Power Systems Research Center at the Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering (KRISO). He joined KRISO after obtaining a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2003. He earned a master’s degree in Intelligent Robotics Engineering from Chungnam National University (CNU) in 2010 and a doctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He is an expert in marine system modeling and model-based control, with a focus on performance evaluation through model basin experiments. Currently, he is developing eco-friendly electrified autonomous marine systems and technologies for achieving carbon neutrality and environmental protection. He has a keen interest in developing future technologies for the greening and automation of all marine systems, including ships, and is leading research and development efforts to realize these goals.

Gavin Allwright

Secretary General, International Windship Association (IWSA)

Gavin Allwright has been active as a maritime decarbonisation consultant since 2005, originally working with a not-for-profit organisation designing zero-emissions, sail/solar electric hybrid vessels for developing countries and this project led to his election as the founding Secretary General of the International Windship Association (IWSA) when that was established in 2014 which he continues in post today. This not-for-profit grouping of over 200 maritime wind propulsion companies and projects supported by academia, NGO’s and seafarers is working to promote and facilitate the uptake of wind propulsion solutions in commercial shipping. He heads the IWSA delegation at the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) where the organisation holds consultative status, along with sitting on the European Sustainable Shipping Forum and until recently also on the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Maritime Technology Cooperation Centres (MTCC) stakeholder’s advisory committee. He is also a non-executive board member on the World Wind Energy Association (WWEA). These positions mean that Gavin has a wide overview of the maritime policy and decarbonisation spheres and in particular how these apply to small island, SIDS and LDC regions.

He has also recently been an advisor on a number of EU and international joint industry and research projects, including: WASP, IMO CARES, WiSP1-3, STEERER, Decarbonising UK Freight and he has worked closely with the Oceania (now Micronesian) Centre for Sustainable Shipping on the development of a sustainable shipping network in the South Pacific and gained extensive knowledge of the small vessel sector from his work as the Commercial Director for the Greenheart project, a not-for-profit organisation he joined in 2005, designing a zero-emissions, sail/solar electric cargo vessel for least developed regions.

Gavin holds a Masters degree in Sustainable Development, specialising in small scale sustainable shipping and logistics in developing countries. He lectures on the development of wind propulsion and sustainable shipping as a visiting lecturer at a number of universities, including the UN World Maritime University, Malmo, Sweden. He has contributed to numerous studies and projects on alternative propulsion solutions and helped coordinate and contributed extensively to the UN-affiliated IRENA technical brief – Renewable Energy Options in Shipping, more recently he is the lead contributor for the Wind propulsion report, submitted as MEPC81 INF.39 and some years ago contributed as an expert reviewer on the first IPCC Special Report on 1.5C Global Warming.

Jakob Granit

Director General, The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)

Henrik Tunfors

International liaison officer, Maritime and Civil Aviation Department, Swedish Transport Agency

Henrik Tunfors is a senior maritime international liaison at the Swedish Transport Agency, where he has performed various roles since 2002, including several management positions. Henrik has been a regular at the International Maritime Organization over the past decades both as a delegate and for different chair assignments, the most recent being for the Working Groups on Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) at the Maritime Safety Committee, a position he has held since the dawn of MASS in 2018.

Henrik has a Masters of Laws, specialized in maritime and competition law, from Lund University, Sweden, and the International and Comparative Law Programme at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.

Katharina Stanzel

Managing Director, INTERTANKO

Katharina Stanzel has served as Managing Director of INTERTANKO since 2012, representing the interests of independent tanker owners worldwide, promoting safety, environmental responsibility and regulatory compliance. The fifth MD in the Association’s long history, she brings an environmental background to the position. She is passionate about advancing the role and reputation of the tanker industry as a vital and responsible partner in the global energy supply chain and has been driving collaboration and partnerships between industry stakeholders; advocating for policies that foster sustainable growth, fair competition and international cooperation in developing best practice, operational excellence and global solutions for a global industry.

A marine biologist by training, she entered the world of shipping in the 1990s. Focussing on marine pollution from ships, she spent ten years as technical advisor for the International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation before joining the IOPC Funds, a UN body tasked with administering several crucial compensation conventions for oil pollution from tankers.

Katharina holds postgraduate qualifications in coastal management and business administration from universities in Germany, the UK and Australia. She is a Member of the American Bureau of Shipping and sits on the International Quality Assessment Review Board (IQARB), an initiative to promote and enhance maritime safety and pollution prevention.

In 2012, she was honoured to be named WISTA International Personality of the Year by the Women in Shipping Trade Association and in 2022 won the SheEO Leads Prize for excellent leadership in a company.

Stig Tenold

Vice rector for academic affairs at NHH Norwegian School of Economics

Stig Tenold (born Bergen, 1970) is Professor of economic history at NHH Norwegian School of Economics. His main research areas are maritime history, maritime economics and East-Asian economic development. He received his dr.oecon.-degree from the NHH in 2001, with a thesis subsequently published in abbreviated form as Tankers in Trouble: Norwegian Shipping and the Crisis of the 1970s and 1980s.

Tenold has published more than 50 scientific articles and book chapters, primarily on shipping and shipbuilding. Among his many books are the Open Access publications Norwegian Shipping in the 20th Century: Norway’s Successful Navigation of the World’s Most Global Industry and Shipping and Globalization in the Post-War Era: Contexts, Companies, Connections (edited with Petersson and White), both published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Stig Tenold is currently Vice rector for academic affairs at NHH Norwegian School of Economics, with responsibility for the educational programmes. He is involved in a number of research projects with colleagues in Denmark, Finland, South Korea and the United Kingdom and has regularly given lectures and courses in maritime history and economics at other universities in Europe and Asia.

Anita Mäkinen

Alternate Permanent Representative of Finland to the IMO

Dr Anita Mäkinen is the Alternate Permanent Representative of Finland to the IMO. She works also as Chief advisor to the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency. She covers all shipping related environmental issues and the international and regional organizations wherein these are discussed, in addition to the IMO, EU, HELCOM and the Arctic Council. Dr Mäkinen is the Chair (elect) for the IMO PPR subcommittee after serving as the Vice-Chair since 2020. In HELCOM she co-chairs the HELCOM Green Team meetings. In her position she has been member of the Finnish delegation to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) e.g. in Paris in 2015 and the Ocean Conference in New York and Lisbon in 2017 and 2022, respectively. Before her present position, Dr Mäkinen worked as the Head of Marine Environment Protection Unit of the Finnish Transport Safety Agency and in different positions at the University of Turku. At the University she supervised Finnish and foreign students’ Master and PhD studies. Dr Anita Mäkinen graduated from the University of Turku. She wrote her doctoral thesis on marine biology at the Åbo Akademi University and holds an Adjunct Professor degree (Docent) at the University of Helsinki in the same discipline. She was awarded with the Honorary Fellowship of the World Maritime University (WMU) in 2023. Her other received Honors and Awards are: – Merit Tamandare Medal by Brazilian Navy, 2023 – Grade de Chevallier de l’ordre du Mérite Maritime by France, 2022 – Medal of the Finnish Border Guard, 2019 – Knight of the Order of the White Rose of Finland, 2017 She is a native speaker in Finnish and additionally speaks fluently Swedish and English and some Russian language.

Jose Matheickal

Director, Technical Cooperation and Implementation Division, International Maritime Organization

Dr. Jose Matheickal is the Director of the Technical Cooperation and Implementation Division (TCID) at the International Maritime Organization (IMO), a specialized agency of the United Nations. He reports to the Secretary General.

Jose is responsible for four sub-divisions dealing with the IMO member state audit and implementation, planning and programming of the IMO’s technical cooperation efforts,maritime development in developing regions through capacity development and resource mobilization and partnership building to support the technical assistance function of IMO.

Since joining IMO, Jose was involved in IMO’s technical cooperation programmes and major technical cooperation projects, as Chief Technical Adviser, specifically focusing on building capacity in developing countries to address emerging marine environmental issues. He then led the IMO’s Department of Partnerships and Projects where he spearheaded IMO’s efforts to enhance its partnership and resource mobilization efforts, promote innovation and develop the portfolio of major technical cooperation projects to support IMO’s technical cooperation function.

Dr. Matheickal is an ex officio member of the executive board of the World Maritime University (WMU). He also founded the innovative Global Industry Alliance, a flagship public-private partnership initiative of IMO.

Dr. Matheickal did his civil and environmental engineering at Kerala University, India before pursuing his post-graduate studies in Environmental Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur and then at Griffith University, Australia as a Sir John Crawford PhD Scholar. He also holds an MBA in Technology Management. He has over 100 scientific publications and an international patent to his credit. His key areas of interest include maritime innovation, maritime training, blue economy, climate change mitigation, green financing, capacity building projects and technology transfer.

Jong-Deog Kim

President, KMI

Jong-Deog Kim is the President of Korea Maritime Institute which is a government-affiliated organization in the Republic of Korea. He served as division directors of several divisions including strategy research division. And he was the Arctic policy research program manager including North Pacific Arctic Conference in Korea Maritime Institute. He led and participated in several national projects on coastal and ocean policy, and international marine environmental relations in his research career. Kim has a Ph.D. in Oceanic Architecture and Engineering in Nihon University, a M.A. and a B.A from Seoul National University.

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