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.