Monthly Archives: July 2024

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Hee Jin Kang

Senior Director, Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering

Dr. Hee Jin Kang, as the senior director at KRISO, is overseeing research on marine carbon neutrality. Since obtaining his Ph.D. in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering from Seoul National University in 2011, he has been dedicated to developing technologies for achieving marine carbon neutrality. He is also an expert member of the Transportation Division of the Presidential Commission on Carbon Neutrality and Green Growth in Korea and a registered expert in carbon neutrality and marine disaster management in the UN’s 3rd World Ocean Assessment (WOA III).

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Geun-Tae Yim

Director of MASS Remote Control Center, Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering

Dr. Geun-Tae Yim was educated as naval architect and has been working in the field of ship hydrodynamics as a researcher in KRISO for decades. He participated in the KASS (Korea Autonomous Surface Ship) project at planning stage and has been in charge of one of KASS projects titled as ‘Development of evaluation and validation testbed for autonomous ship technology’.

He holds a position as director of ASVERC (Autonomous Ship Verification & Evaluation Research Centre) since new organisation was set in April 2022. Currently he is working on various scenario-based MASS sea-trials and centre’ functionality expansion.

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Hyung Chul Yoon

Principal Researcher, Korea Institute of Energy Research

Dr. Hyung Chul Yoon is a chief and principal researcher in the Clean Fuel Laboratory at KIER and the group leader of green ammonia synthesis and utilization. He is one co-founders of the Korean Clean Ammonia Association (KCAA) and has served as its deputy director. Notably, Hyundai heavy industry and Hynndai Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering, Korean register are among the members of KCAA. Dr. Yoon is also a professor at the University of Science and Tehcnology and an adjunct profesor in Chung-Nam National University.

His primary research interests focus on electrochemical and thermochemical catalysts and processes for low-pressure and low-temperature synthesis of green ammonia, highly efficient hydrgen produciton process from ammonia cracking, the safe utilization of ammonia, and hydrogen purification processes. He has publised more than 70 SCI peer-reviewed papers in journals such as Appl. Catal., Catal, Chem Eng J, Energy Environ Sci. Additionally he holds more than 130 domestic and international patents.

Dr. Yoon received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering department from the University of California Davis in 2008. After his Ph.D., he joined the dept. of mechnical and process engineering at ETH Zurich, Switzerland as a postdoctoral reseacher. Before joining KIER in 2011, his main research areas were hydrogen production via steam/authtothermal reformation of hydrocarbon fuels and thermochemical production of solar fuels.