Monthly Archives: July 2024

Nikos Nomikos

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.

Matteo Del Chicca

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.

Beatriz Martinez Romera

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.

Hyerim Bae

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.

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.