JACQUELINE M.
CRAMER
Amsterdam Economic Board Member and former Dutch Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment
MATTIA
PELLEGRINI
Head of Unit at Directorate General Environment, European Commission
BIRGIT
LIODDEN
Founder & CEO at The Ocean Opportunity Lab (TOOL)
JESPER JARL
FANO
Senior Regulatory Affairs Manager at A.P. Møller Mærsk
JACQUELINE M.
CRAMER
Prof. Dr. Jacqueline Cramer is member of the Amsterdam Economic Board, particularly in charge of the circular economy in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area. Moreover, she is professor of sustainable innovation at Utrecht University. Before she was Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (2007 –2010). Her background is primarily related to industry, working as a consultant for many years with a great variety of companies on the implementation of sustainable entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility and circular economy. Moreover, she worked as part-time professor since 1990. She was and still is member of various (inter)national advisory boards of the government, industry and non-profit organisations, among which chairman of the Supervisory Board of Holland Circular Hotspot, Mayor of Circle City, Chairman of the Concrete Agreement and of the Building Agreement Steel.
MATTIA
PELLEGRINI
Mattia Pellegrini is currently Head of Unit for From Waste to Resources at DG Environment, European Commission. Previously he was Head of Unit for Raw Materials, Metals, Minerals and Forest-based Industries at the European Commission’s DG for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs. Previously, he worked as Head of Cabinet of Commissioner Nelli Feroci and as a Member of the Cabinet of the Vice President of the European Commission, in charge of Enterprise and Industry. Mr Pellegrini has a Master’s Degree in European Legal Studies obtained at the College of Europe, Bruges, and a postgraduate diploma in EC Law obtained at L.U.I.S.S. “Guido Carli”, University of Rome.
BIRGIT
LIODDEN
Birgit is the Founder & CEO for The Ocean Opportunity Lab (TOOL), a global ecosystem for innovators within ocean & renewable energy, which recently launched the world´s first interactive map and resource matching platform connecting innovators across startup and established industries. Chairperson of the Norwegian Association for Environmental Boats, zero emission mining company Kuniko Norway, and board member of TECO2030, Greenstat, Bellona Foundation and TheFactory – covering hydrogen infrastructure, sustainable finance and environment. She is also on the sustainability board of battery company Beyonder. She holds 17 years of experience from global leadership roles across the maritime sector. Birgit is former Director of Nor-Shipping, founder of YoungShip International, and former global project manager at Wilh. Wilhelmsen. She established the first global maritime entrepreneur award, and the first mentor program for women in maritime. In 2018 she interviewed President Barack Obama in Oslo, and she has been awarded a number of national and international prizes for her leadership, including several years on the Top100 ranking of Influential female leaders in global shipping.
JESPER JARL
FANO
Jesper has been working with international maritime law for over 10 years, including international and regional maritime environmental law. After his work at the Danish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and at the Danish Maritime Authority (DMA), he joined A.P. Møller Mærsk. He is currently focussing on securing enforcement, through PSC and UNCLOS, of existing IMO environmental legislation, primarily Fuel-regulation (MARPOL Annex I-VI, esp. IMO2020 i.e. Annex VI), but also Ship Recycling, Piracy, Biofuel, Arctic etc. plus different matters pertaining to Public Affairs. Jesper has been teaching “International Law” at Copenhagen University since 2012, and is the author of several books and articles on maritime legislation.
OLAF
MERK
Administrator Ports and Shipping, International Transport Forum (ITF) at OECD
STÉPHANE
TONDO
Head of Climate Change and Governmental Affairs at ArcelorMittal Europe
DAVID
JOHNSON
Principal at SERA Architects
PATRIZIA
HEIDEGGER
Deputy Secretary General at European Environmental Bureau (EEB)
OLAF
MERK
Olaf Merk leads the work on ports and shipping at the International Transport Forum (ITF) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). As such, he directs policy-relevant studies on maritime transport and the ports sector. Olaf is the author of more than fifty OECD publications. He is member of the Editorial Board of the academic journal Maritime Economics and Logistics. He was Associate Professor at Sciences Po Paris between 2014-17. At the OECD Olaf also worked on urban development, fiscal decentralisation and public finance. Prior to the OECD, he held various positions at the Netherlands Ministry of Finance. He holds a Master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Amsterdam.
STÉPHANE
TONDO
Stéphane Tondo, General Manager of ArcelorMittal, is currently head of climate change – governmental affairs, and, in that function, he contributes to the decarbonisation roadmap of European entities and its financing.
Stéphane joined Sollac, a former company of ArcelorMittal in the automotive sales division in 1998 where he held several positions, from market development engineer to key account manager and finally heading an automotive
sales area. Since 2013, he has been Chief Marketing Officer in charge of Packaging, Oil and gas, and Electrical Steel segments within ArcelorMittal Europe Flat Products. Additionally, in March 2020, he took the role of Chief Executive Officer of ArcelorMittal Avellino & Canossa in Italy. Stéphane holds a degree as a sales engineer from the Esidec business school in Metz (France), and he is a graduate in mechanical engineering.
DAVID
JOHNSON
David is a leader in applications of regenerative principles in the built environment. He is focused on the creation of enduring economic, ecological, and cultural value; community; health; well-being; and inspiration. David is a principal with SERA Architects and is a leader of the California practice. He was a partner at William McDonough + Partners, guiding the implementation of the Cradle to Cradle sustainability protocol in the architectural practice. David is active with AIA, ULI, and SPUR. David is also an advisor to The Healthy Building Network (HBN), The Green Science Policy Institute, The Healthy Product Collaborative, GlobalSF, The California Forward Capital Market Task Force, and Drawdown Bay Area. David lectures on regenerative design and was a design studio instructor at Stanford University. At COP26, he was named by the American Energy Society (AES) one of the 500 global sustainability thought leaders.
PATRIZIA
HEIDEGGER
As the Director for Global Policies and Sustainability, Patrizia leads the European Environmental Bureau’s work on sustainable development and follows intergovernmental processes at regional and global level including the UN Environment Assembly. Together with SDG Watch Europe, she closely follows the implementation of the SDGs in and by the EU. She supervises the EEB’s clusters on environmental law and justice and on the economic transition, and has initiated projects addressing environmental racism and advocating for gender-mainstreaming in environmental policies. As part of the EEB’s Senior Management Team, she also serves at the EEB’s Diversity Manager. She represents the EEB on the board of European Movement International and holds the only seat taken by an environmental NGO in the Plenary of the Conference on the Future of Europe. Patrizia has been working as an advocate for environmental justice, human rights and sustainable development for 15 years, mainly with NGOs in Europe and Asia. She was previously Executive Director of the NGO Shipbreaking Platform and has worked as a parliamentary advisor for the Greens in Germany and in development cooperation in South Asia.
CHRISTELLE
ROUSSEAU
Policy Officer at “From Waste to Resources” Unit at DG Environment – European Commission
KNUT OLA
SKOTVEDT
Senior Vice President at DNB Bank
DEWI
WESSELMAN
Group Sustainability Coordinator at Damen Shipyards Group
JOHN
JACOBSEN
Founder & CEO at Nordic Circles
CHRISTELLE
ROUSSEAU
Christelle Rousseau is the Policy Officer currently in charge of Ship Recycling within the “From Waste to Resources” Unit at DG Environment, European Commission. She previously worked in DG Mobility and Transport where she was a Policy Officer in the Ports & Inland Navigation Unit. Before being in Brussels, she worked in Lithuania, Croatia and Morocco in the context of EU accession and EU-Morocco association agreement. Her educational background is from UCLouvain University (Political Science) and Ghent University (European Law).
KNUT OLA
SKOTVEDT
Knut Ola is a Senior Corporate Analyst and industry specialist in the Ocean Industries Division in DNB Bank which serves clients within oil and gas, oilfield services, offshore, shipping and seafood. He has been with DNB for more than 25 years in Oslo, Athens and Singapore and in various capacities within Shipping, Offshore and Logistics. In addition to current responsibilities within sustainability policies and initiatives, he is also a senior shipping and offshore markets analyst. He was involved in the development of the Poseidon Principles, and responsible for the implementation in DNB. He is also representing DNB in other sustainability initiatives, including the Norwegian Green Shipping Programme and Responsible Ship Recycling Standards. His educational background is from the Norwegian School of Management (Business Degree/Sivil Økonom) and the University of Oslo (Political Science).
DEWI
WESSELMAN
Dewi Wesselman is the group sustainability coordinator at the Damen Shipyards Group. She is working for Damen since 2017, with her background in Strategic Product Design and Communication Design for Innovation at Delft University of Technology. She focusses accelerating the transition of the shipbuilding industry towards a circular economy by creating awareness on the topic and developing methodologies to include life cycle thinking in the design of a vessel.
JOHN
JACOBSEN
John is one of the founders and CEO of Nordic Circles, a company that epicycles steel from ships and oil rigs into building products. Through their unique process they deliver building products with almost zero Co2 emissions. They designed and produced the first upcycled fish hotel which was acclaimed world-changing idea by FastCompany in 2021.
FREDRIK
BARTH
Fredrik is one of the founders of Nordic Circles, a company that epicycles steel from ships and oil rigs into building products. Through their unique process they deliver building products with almost zero Co2 emissions. They have designed and produced the first upcycled fish hotel which was acclaimed world-changing idea by FastCompany in 2021.
SUKI KLER
YOUNG
Suki Kler Young is a Chemist and Environmental Scientist, who has worked for the past 14 years at EPEA GmbH, founded by Prof. Michael Braungart who co-originated the Cradle to Cradle® Design Concept. Through detailed chemical and materials analysis Suki has worked with companies at various points in the supply chain – from materials producers, such as DSM and AkzoNobel (incl. plastics, paints and coatings); to product manufacturers, such as Auping (beds), Desso/Tarkett (flooring) and Mosa (tiles); as well as materials recyclers, such as Black Bear Carbon – to establish a truly circular economy. She has supported clients from the development of a new assessment methodology to innovative circular product design concepts.
SAMUELE
MAO
Samuele is presently employed as Principal Manager GHESS in Carnival Corporate Ship Building. During the past 8 years, he has gained much experience in all new safety, environmental, and security systems in the cruise industry, following activities related to new buildings and improving relations with Flags and Class Societies. He has almost 25 years of experience working on board vessels, serving as Master for the last three years.
CAPT.
UDAY
Uday sailed in various ascending capacities from cadet to captain on various types of ships. For decades he managed ashore shipping operations, from shipbuilding orders to trading and logistics. Founder and director of several companies active in the dredging, container shipping, and logistics markets, Uday now holds the Chairman position at Elegant Exit Company (EEC). EEC’s purpose is to make sustainable ship recycling the industry norm. This will only be possible if sustainability runs through every vein of the company. This starts with the recycling process, which adheres to the most stringent ship recycling standards, and prioritizes sustainability. To make an industry wide impact EEC will connect the dots between ship owners, recycling yards and steel mills creating a supply chain from ship to steel. The industrialization opportunities that this supply chain brings is the key to decreasing the costs and further increasing the sustainability of the recycling process.
BERT
VAN GRIEKEN
Bert is an industrial engineer who, after his military service in the Navy, started his career with Nedlloyd in 1995. He held various commercial positions, mainly in marketing, customer service and as country and regional manager for Nedlloyd, P&O Nedlloyd and Maersk, and was based in Rotterdam, London, Hamburg and Panama.
In 2016, Bert left Maersk to head the inland container barging division of Nedcargo. He spearheaded electrification of inland shipping, building two barges with electric propulsion and developing solutions for zero-emission operation with (swappable) batteries. He left the company in 2019 to become an independent consultant and project manager in sustainable transport.
Bert joined Sea2Cradle in April 2021 as commercial director. Sea2Cradle is a global expert in green ship recycling, and applies proven health, safety and environmental standards from the offshore sector to all recycling projects to strive for zero pollution, zero incidents and zero accidents. Through his involvement in a large variety of projects Bert has quickly gained in depth knowledge of all aspects of ship recycling and has helped various ship owners to find the best solution for the safe and environmentally sound recycling of their vessels and rigs.
DOUWE
AMELS
Douwe has maritime blood running through his veins as a member of the Amels family with a shipbuilder as a grandfather and a maritime entrepreneur as a father. For a while he even was a Marine Technology student himself. He ended up taking a slightly different route though, earning his Master of Law degree in business law. Joining EEC as Sustainability Manager meant his comeback into the Maritime Industry. As sustainability manager at EEC, he has been given the assignment to assist in making the sustainability ambitions of the founders come true. And they have set a high bar. EEC’s purpose is to make sustainable ship recycling the industry norm. This will only be possible if sustainability runs through every vein of the company. This starts with the recycling process, which adheres to the most stringent ship recycling standards, and prioritizes sustainability. To make an industry wide impact EEC will connect the dots between ship owners, recycling yards and steel mills creating a supply chain from ship to steel. The industrialization opportunities that this supply chain brings is the key to decreasing the costs and further increasing the sustainability of the recycling process. Besides his job as Sustainability Manager at EEC, Douwe is also a professional high jumper, participating at the European Championships in Munich only one month prior to this Ship Recycling Lab. If you are thinking of joining Douwe’s talk, this might be relevant information. Beware of high jump metaphors!
ADRIEN
ASSOUS
Adrien Assous is Sandbag’s Executive Director. Adrien has worked in the financial sector for 20 years, including 15 years in carbon asset management and energy financing. A former Board Member at Climate Market and Investment Association, having worked on climate investment since 2005 at The Climate Group and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, he started Sandbag in Brussels in 2018 and has been running it full-time since 2021.
MICHAEL
DIXON
Mike has 15 years experience in the marine sector with various commercial and contract roles on some of highest profile Marine, Oil and Gas and Decommissioning projects. He is a legally qualified quantity surveyor by trade and adds qualifications as an adjudicator and expert witness to his credentials. He was part of the successful bid team that brought the Shell Brent single lift project to Teesside. He joins Atlas having assembled a team capable of delivering any decommissioning project.
SYEDA RIZWANA
HASAN
Chief Executive at Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA)
FRANK
MAATJE
Director at Bouwen met Staal (BmS)
FRANK
STUER-LAURIDSEN
CEO and Senior Environmental Consultant at LITEHAUZ
FREDERIK
DE WIT
Principal Lecturer and Researcher at Rotterdam University of Applied Science
SYEDA RIZWANA
HASAN
Rizwana is an advocate at the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and the Director of the Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA). She has initiated landmark rulings on the shipbreaking industry in Bangladesh and was able to forestall the import of toxic end-of-life vessels to her country. She received the prestigious Goldman Prize 2009 for her work on shipbreaking, and won the Ramon Magsaysay Award 2012, considered ‘the Asian Nobel prize’. The US Department of State recognised Rizwana with the International Women of Courage Award 2022. She is considered a leading environmentalist in Bangladesh.
FRANK
MAATJE
Frank Maatje is director of Bouwen met Staal (BmS), a knowledge institute for steel in construction. BmS develop books about structural steel, BmS publishes a professional journal and you can follow a course at BmS where you can obtain a master’s degree in steel structures. All parties in the chain are member of Bouwen met Staal, from steel producers such as Tata Steel and Arcelor Mittal, to architects and engineers. At the moment, (steel) construction is facing the major task of becoming CO2 neutral and circular. Together with all the chain players, Bouwen met Staal has initiated the “Bouwakkoord Staal, which aims to reduce CO2 emissions by 60%. Frank studied civil engineering in Delft.
FRANK
STUER-LAURIDSEN
Dr Frank Stuer-Lauridsen is a marine biologist and environmental chemist from Copenhagen University. He is a specialist in strategic management and assessment of hazardous activities and materials in the shipping industry. Frank has worked intensively with environmental cost-benefit analyses and Environmental Impact Assessments, and in the past 20 years he has carried out more than 200 projects related to management of hazardous materials, decommissioning and recycling of chemical plants, offshore installations and ships. Frank founded the maritime environmental consultancy LITEHAUZ in 2007. With his colleagues in LITEHAUZ he focused on the key environmental issues in shipping, and recycling has been amongst the top priorities. With regards to outlining and executing strategies on sustainable ship recycling issues Frank has engaged with international shipping industry clients and associations, with the private financial sector, the international financial institutes, and several members of the UN family. Frank frequently speaks on ship recycling at universities and conferences, and participated in the Sustainable Shipping Initiative meetings.
FREDERIK
DE WIT
Dr.ir. Frederik de Wit is a materials scientist by training (PhD in coating adhesion) and currently principal lecturer and researcher at Rotterdam University of Applied Science. Before that he was senior lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at The Hague University of Applied Science (2012-2018) and a project manager at TU Delft Adhesion Institute (2009-2012). His interests include advanced manufacturing techniques (automated, 3D), recycling and practical teaching methods.
ROBERT
EVANS
Member of the Board of Directors at NGO Shipbreaking Platform
HELEN
PÉRIVIER
President of the Board of Directors at NGO Shipbreaking Platform
BARIS
CIFTCI
Director of Industry Analysis at Worldsteel
JOHANNES
THRANE
Director Sustainability, Communication & Tendering at AF Offshore Decom
ROBERT
EVANS
Robert is a former Member of the European Parliament (1999-2008) where he represented the British Labour Party. In Parliament, Robert chaired the Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia and he has focused on EU-Bangladesh relations. During his time as an MEP, he has actively dealt with the shipbreaking issue. He now works as a local Councillor, and as a consultant, in particular with his special expertise in Bangladesh to the charities BRAC and London Tigers.
HELEN
PÉRIVIER
Helen is a qualified navigation officer and has ten years of experience serving on ships as a maritime professional and in environmental research, advocacy, and education tours. She successfully led the Greenpeace campaign on the European REACH chemicals legislation and has been working on the shipbreaking issue for more than a decade. Helen has a deep understanding of campaigning on environmental issues at both the international and the European level. She holds a M.Sc. in Integrated Coastal Ecosystem Science, Policy & Management from the University of New Hampshire and an ALM in Sustainability & Environmental Management from the Harvard Extension School. Helen is one of the five founding members of the Platform.
BARIS
CIFTCI
Dr. Baris Bekir Ciftci is the Director of Industry Analysis at Worldsteel. He is currently responsible of leading the Association’s research activities on market fundamentals, business strategies, and future prospects for the global steel, energy, and steelmaking materials and steel-consuming industries. He has conducted international-level economic and market studies on topics that stand at the top of the research agenda for steel and steelmaking materials markets over the last 10 years.
He received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Industrial Engineering from the Middle East Technical University in Turkey and a Ph.D. Degree in Economics from the Tilburg University in the Netherlands. He currently lives in both Turkey and Belgium.
JOHANNES
THRANE
Johannes has worked within the North Sea decommissioning industry since the start of his AF-Gruppen career in 2004, most recently working in the role of Director Sustainability, Communication & Tendering for AF Offshore Decom. During his career Johannes has been instrumental in the successful execution of several major EPRD projects working in a variety of roles including Offshore Construction Manager, Project Manager, Project Director and VP Commercial. Johannes has a Master of Science degree from the Norwegian University of Science & Technology and has attended INSEAD’s Management Acceleration Programme.
KARSTEN
SCHUMACHER
Karsten is the founder and managing partner of Leviathan GmbH. He is a naval architect, ocean engineer, international welding engineer. He is also a designer and builder of 40ft yachts with experience in Vacuum Infusion Technology. He has 15 years of experience as an Exclusive Surveyor to DNV GL former Germanischer Lloyd, therof 10 years as Project Manager for several Mega Yacht Projects at Fr. Lürssen Wefrt GmbH & Co. KG. Karsten is also a passionate sailor and a Frosio coating inspector level 3.
SIMEON
HIERTZ
Simeon is a visionary enthusiast for ship recycling and the founder and managing partner of Leviathan GmbH. He is a naval architect, ocean engineer and international welding engineer. He has 13 years of experience as an Exclusive Surveyor to DNV GL former Germanischer Lloyd for Fleet in Service, Newbuilding and Welding Certification. Simeon has also performed several complex repair jobs on vessels.
JEROEN
PRUYN
Jeroen Pruyn is the Lector Maritime Innovations at the Rotterdam University of Applied Science and an Associate Professor Maritime Operations and Management at Delft University of Technology. He has worked in academia since 2004 and has a long track record in ship production, operations and recycling research. His current research is focused on the concept of future proof (robust) designs of ships. Instead of designing a ship just to meet the contract requirements, we should invest a little more into the design of a ship. Robust design, is not an unbreakable design, but an adaptive design that can deal with the uncertainties of the future. This design can than be easily maintained, refitted and recycled. Opening up more readily adaptations to changes in requirements, like the energy transition or a circular economy, where almost all of the ships materials are reused in a sustainable way.
NARAVULA
SUBBARAMA VASU
Naravula Subbarama Vasu has 33 years of experience in still rolling mills production. He is an Engineering graduate. Currently, Naravula is the Quality Control Manager at SULB Bahrain.
PETER
WYNTIN
Peter started working in the ship recycling business in 1995 at Van Heyghen Recycling in Ghent-Belgium. The company was taken over by Galloo in 2002. Galloo kept investing in the ship recycling yard, which led the yard to obtain an environmental license until 2032 and the inclusion in the EU list of approved ship recycling facilities. Peter became chairman of the European Ship Recyclers in 2017. The Association’s main purpose is to regroup the EU-licensed yards within the EEA and report any illegal exporting/scrapping of end-of-life ships outside the EU.
NATHALIE
VAN DE POEL
With a Master in Management and Innovation and a background in the steel industry, Nathalie van de Poel is one of the founders of Purified Metal Company (PMC). After coming across the fact that steel contaminated with asbestos is being dumped into landfills, together with her two business associates, she built a factory to prevent this from happening. PMC protects humans and the environment from exposure to toxic pollution coming from contaminated steel with e.g. Asbestos, Led, Chromium VI and Mercury. This is the first unique company in the world capable of recycling polluted steel waste into a new raw material.
MICHAEL
BRAUNGART
Prof. Dr. Michael Braungart is professor at the Leuphana University Lüneburg and founder of EPEA, Environmental Protection and Encouragement Agency in Hamburg (Germany), ‘The cradle of Cradle to Cradle’. He is also co-founder of McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC) in Charlottesville, Virginia and founder of the Hamburger Environmental Institute (HUI). For decades, Prof. Dr. Michael Braungart has pioneered the Cradle to Cradle design concept. He has worked with a number of organizations and companies across a range of industries, and has developed tools for designing eco-effective products, business systems and intelligent materials pooling. In 2019 Michael Braungart was awarded the Goldene Blume von Rheydt (Golden Flower of Rheydt), the oldest environmental protection award in Germany, for his work.
SITI
FARIYA
Siti is the creator of DecommsPRO, an application to calculate risk-based cost and productivity in maritime assets decommissioning process, dedicated to various users. As the output of her PhD degree, the tool will show the most cost-effective safety control to be applied in order to decrease the risk. Together with Strathclyde Inspire, she is building a spin-out company to commercialise her research. Since 2015, Siti has been actively working in the ship recycling area and she has contributed significantly to the awareness raising in the ship recycling sector in Indonesia. Her research and awareness raising activities were also recognised by the Indonesian Ambassador to the UK, Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic Indonesia through the MVP Award (the Most Dedicated for Tackling Real World Problems category) that she achieved in 2021.
TESS
DOEZEMA
Visiting researcher at University of Vigo Post-Growth Innovation Lab
INGVILD
JENSSEN
Executive Director and Founder at NGO Shipbreaking Platform
FRANK
SMEELE
Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam
FRANK G.
GEERDINK
Managing Director at Circular Maritime Technologies (CMT) International BV
TESS
DOEZEMA
Dr Tess Doezema is a research associate at the Faculty of Economic and Business Studies of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and a visiting researcher with the Post-Growth Innovation Lab at the University of Vigo. Her work on the H2020 project JUST2CE examines efforts to create the circular economy in Europe, with attention to questions of environmental justice and the modes of knowledge production and political (re)formation associated with environmental transitions. Tess received her PhD from Arizona State University’s School for the Future of Innovation in Society. She has held visiting fellowships with the Technical University of Munich’s Innovation, Society & Public Policy group, the Science, Technology & Society program at the Harvard Kennedy School, and the USAID Global Development Lab.
INGVILD
JENSSEN
Ingvild has been the NGO Shipbreaking Platform’s spokesperson and represented the coalition in negotiations and advocacy work at the United Nations and European level since the inception of the organisation in 2005. She holds a MSc in Political Science from the University of Oslo with social anthropology and international law as minors. Prior to joining the Platform, Ingvild was part of ARENA, a leading research program on European policies, where she contributed to the CIDEL project and held courses in political theory for graduate students.
FRANK
SMEELE
Prof. Frank G.M. Smeele LLM MA PHD (1966) studied Law and European Studies at the University of Amsterdam and graduated in 1991. After completion of his military service in Germany, he subsequently became a research fellow at Erasmus University Rotterdam where in 1998 he obtained his Doctorate Iuris in 1998 cum laude for his thesis Passieve legitimatie uit Cognossement, (The Identity of the Carrier under bills of lading). In 1998 Frank Smeele was admitted to the Rotterdam bar, where he practiced law as attorney at law from 1998 until 2007 with the Rotterdam firm of Van Traa Advocaten, as from 2004 as partner. In 2005, he was appointed (part-time) Professor of Maritime Law at Erasmus University. In 2007, he was appointed full time Professor of Commercial Law also at Erasmus University, where he founded the English language LLM-programme in Commercial law. In April 2017 Frank was appointed as Raadsheer-plaatsvervanger (Deputy appeal Justice) in the Court of Appeal of The Hague.
FRANK G.
GEERDINK
Frank G. Geerdink, known as FG, a Dutch national, 63 years of age, has been successful as an entrepreneur from early age onwards. The red ribbon of his entrepreneurial life is to see problems in certain industries and envisioning the solution by combining technologies, systems and methods from other industries and trades and, by bringing these factors together, produce the viable solution and thus creating new businesses. Over the last 20 years the offshore decom was a logical move to look into for finding solutions on how to handle these large structures and gradually the dismantling of ships came as a natural step, as the specially developed tools to dismantle offshore rigs offered a great solution on how to dismantle ships. As it turned out, ships could be dismantled at a much higher frequency and speed and with the integration of many adjacent techniques. The development of the dedicated CMT yard shows its potential and offers a great business opportunity as it delivers a truly circular process system. All waste retrieved from ships is processed at the CMT yard and the technologies developed guarantee people and the environment are 100% safe at all times.
ROBIN
HOOGWERF
Director at Denith Africa & 34South
DIRK-HENNING
STUHR
Chief Executive Officer & Managing Partner at Greendock
BRYCE
LAWRENCE
Managing Director at ESG Ship Vetting by Global Risk Management GmbH
JORRIT
HALFF
Graduate at Rotterdam University of Applied Science
ROBIN
HOOGWERF
Robin Hoogwerf has over 37 years of experience in Civil and Structural engineering with an emphasis on Green Infrastructure and Renewable Energy projects. He manages multi-disciplinary teams from concepts to commissioning, and he initiates development and funding. Robin is the co-founder of 34South which is the Special Purpose Vehicle for developing the Green Ship Recycling Facility in Saldanha Bay, near Cape Town in South Africa. The Facility will be designed according to the EU Ship Recycling Regulation.
DIRK-HENNING
STUHR
Dirk-H. is since 1996 equipped with a MSc in Industrial Engineering for Chemistry, Secondary Raw Materials and a background in Logistics in Emerging Markets and Environmental Impacts of the Petro Industry from the TU-Berlin and a MBA in Finance awarded jointly amongst others by Business School of London, ESCP Paris, Complutense Madrid and TU-Berlin.
After his University Studies, Dirk-H. worked for nearly 20 years in Executive and SVP position in various regions (Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific, Sub-Saharan Africa) for large corporations being specialized to set-up and establishing new companies and business units, structures and green-field operations signing responsible to over 400 project implementations throughout his career.
After such a successful career it just felt natural, that Dirk-H. Stuhr became active within Greendock 2016. Since he has held various positions and is the current CEO of Greendock Global Licenses.
Actively involved in establishing the global PCT-License and the Patent for the Greendock solution worldwide, Dirk-H. has been a key in designing of an effective and cost efficient ship-breaking process for the Greendock Ship-Breaking solution.
BRYCE
LAWRENCE
Bryce Lawrence is a Kiwi living in Hamburg, Germany. He is the founder of ESG Ship Vetting. An independent, non-conflicted partner helping shippers, cargo owners, freight forwarders, and financial institutes manage the human rights risks linked to the maritime sector of their value chain. Bryce has previously worked for 14 years as an environmental and maritime safety regulator, at the same time he served 13 years in the Coastguard in roles such as a senior master of a rescue vessel and SAR operations manager. Prior to founding ESG Ship Vetting, Bryce worked in the oil and gas industry for six years with tasks involving conducting ESG Due Diligence and Risk Management for M&A Projects, new country entry projects, and capital raising projects that were based all around the world.
JORRIT
HALFF
Jorrit recently graduated from the Bsc. Maritime engineering at RUAS. Combined with practical experience as Maritime officer, he tries to view maritime challenges with both practical and theoretical perspectives. During his study he developed an interest in system engineering, programming and offshore sustainable energy.
ZOË
VAN EENENNAAM
Zoë is a fourth year student in the BSc. Maritime Engineering at RUAS who is interested in sustainable, modular systems and process optimalisation. She is also assisting in the course of ship construction and is the student-ambassador for the department of Maritime Engineering.
JACCO
NOLLEN
Jacco is a shipping enthusiast at heart. He is currently doing an extensive research project on CO2 mitigation measures for the short-sea vessel in collaboration with Delft University of Technology and the company NESEC Ship Finance in Rotterdam. His focus is on minimizing the risk of a stranded asset due to future emission regulations and making ships compliant. Jacco has deep understanding of maritime technology, studying maritime technology at Delft University of Technology, with two business and economic minors at both the National University of Singapore and University College London.
