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James Corbett, Professor, College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Delaware
Corbett, P.E., Ph.D. conducts technology-policy research related to transportation, including groundbreaking research on air emissions from maritime transport, energy and environmental impacts of freight transportation, and assessment of technological and policy strategies for improving goods movement. Dr. Corbett is a Professor in the College of Earth Ocean and Environment with joint appointment in Civil and Environmental Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of Delaware. He is a principal partner in Energy and Environmental Research Associates, L.L.C. (EERA), engaged in energy, environmental, and economic analysis for clients internationally. Dr. Corbett received his Ph.D. in Engineering and Public Policy (EPP) from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a graduate of the California Maritime Academy and he worked as a licensed officer in the U.S. Merchant Marine, a Naval Reserve Engineering Duty Officer, and a consultant for industry and government in industrial operations, energy and environmental performance. |
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Paul H. Stebbins, Executive Chairman, World Fuel Services Corporation (NYSE:INT)
Mr. Stebbins served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of World Fuel Services Corporation (NYSE:INT) since July, 2002 and became Executive Chairman January of 2012. He has served as an executive and director of the company since 1995. In 1985 he and his partner, Michael Kasbar, co-founded New York City-based Trans-Tec Services, Inc., a global marine fuel services company acquired by Miami-based World Fuel in 1995. Over the years, Mr. Stebbins has written numerous industry articles and lectured frequently on leadership and commercial issues. |
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Adam Ritchie, Head of Oil and Chemicals Markets Analysis, Shell Trading and Shell Downstream
Mr. Ritchie is leading the teams responsible for delivering fact-based insights into the current and future developments of the global crude, oil products and chemicals markets. Adam joined Shell in Australia in 1994, having graduated with an honours degree in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering from The University of Melbourne. After several engineering and operations roles in Distribution and Lubricants, Adam moved into Shell Aviation, designing and managing the airport fuel system modifications as part of the Sydney Airport 2000 Project for the Olympic Games. Adam is based in Shell’s Trading offices on The Strand in London and his global team is spread across Europe, Singapore and Houston. |
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Peter M. Grunwaldt, Director of Global Sales, Chemoil
Peter M. Grunwaldt is as Director of Global Sales for Chemoil and is responsible for Chemoil’s global sales. Since 2006, Peter worked as General Manager of Bunker Purchasing for ST Shipping owned by the Glencore Group, where he established a physical purchase desk catering for a fleet of +200 tankers. He was also active in developing the derivative transactions and hedging strategy for the company. Peter’s career began in 1995 with A.P.Moller / Maersk, he was assigned to the Maersk Bunker Group in Copenhagen responsible for the Mediterranean and Africa. Later he was responsible for purchasing 4-5 million metric tons per year for the Far East and Middle East portfolio. In 2001 Peter transferred to Singapore to set up the Maersk Bunker purchasing office in Singapore, wherein he was responsible 5 million metric-ton-a year portfolio. |
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Simon Chattrabhuti, Director and the Head of Tanker Market Analysis at Clarksons shipbrokers, London
Simon originally joined Clarksons in 1999 before leaving in 2003 for spells with Shell, Galbraith's Shipbrokers and ICAP, before returning to Clarksons in October 2011. Simon holds a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford and a Masters’ degree in East Asian Studies from the University of Durham. |
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Jane Dahl Christensen, Executive Vice President - Physical Supply, OW Bunker
Jane Dahl Christensen is Executive Vice President, Physical Supply for OW Bunker, one of the world’s largest suppliers and traders of marine fuel oil. Christensen joined Wrist Group, OW Bunker’s parent company as CFO in 2002, and was then appointed Executive Vice President of OW Bunker’s global bunker supply activities. Prior to joining the Group, Christensen worked as a state-authorised public accountant for Ernst & Young in Denmark and abroad. Christensen has been responsible for overseeing the continued growth of OW Bunker’s physical operations on a global basis, in supporting the implementation of a robust business model based on controlled growth and ensuring agility and flexibility in meeting the demands of customers.
Working with the world’s leading ship owners and operators, OW Bunker’s core activity is the global sale of bunkers both from its own physical inventories, where it operates over 30 large and small tankers in its global fleet, as well as an intermediary trader. OW Bunker also provides risk management tools and services, as well as purchasing and selling entire oil cargoes.
OW Bunker’s head office is located in Noerresundby in North Denmark, where the company was founded in 1980. Today, the Group is represented in 24 countries worldwide, spanning Europe, Middle East, Asia, Africa and the Americas and commands more than 8% of the global bunker market. The company is part of the Wrist Group, which is owned by Altor, one of Europe’s leading private equity funds. |
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Cathy Higginbotham, Senior Bunker Marine Manager, Colonial Oil
Cathy Higginbotham has been in the petroleum industry since 1982 starting out in operations division where she learned to load barges, understand the blending process of different grades of IFO products and how the actual specs affect the burning process of different types of vessel engines. The original company Higginbotham started with in 1982 was bought and sold 5 different times and with each ownership change she was able to grow in this industry. Her current position allows her to sell and service to customers around the world that call on the southern east coast of the USA. Colonial services 4 different ports form Jacksonville, FL up through Charleston, SC. Higginbotham’s job is to stay on top of current fuel environmental laws and help customer stay in compliance. Higginbotham comes from Florida, USA. |
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Tony Vertommen, Managing Director, Aegean NWE NV
Tony started his career some 26 years ago in the operations desk of Verbeke Bunkering, which at the time was a small lubricants and gasoil transporter in the port of Antwerp, Belgium. After a lot of hard work and vision, Verbeke under the management of Tony was transformed into a major bunkering supplier not only in Antwerp but in the whole of the A-R-A region. In 2010 the Company was acquired by the AEGEAN Group and Tony fulfilled the position of Managing Director responsible also for the integration of the Company’s regional activities but also for its expansion in the area. |
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Melanie Moore, Vice President Environment, Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics
Melanie is responsible as the driver and custodian of WWL’s Environmental Forerunner strategy working in close cooperation with internal and external stakeholders. She has 18 years experience in the shipping and logistics industry in various operational, commercial, human resources and management positions in Australia, USA, and Norway. Melanie holds a BA in International Business Relations from Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
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Aslak Suopanki, Solutions Life Cycle Manager, Environmental Services, Wärtsilä Finland
Aslak Suopanki (M.Sc. in Chemistry) joined Wärtsilä Services in 2007 as manager of environmental products, specializing in retrofit environmental solutions such as SCRs and scrubbers. Before Wärtsilä he gained almost a decade of R&D experience in the catalytic converter business from a wide range of applications, from automotive to stationary.
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Bill Hemmings, Programme Manager Aviation & Shipping, Transport & Environment
Hemmings joined T&E in August 2008 to handle aviation and shipping issues from an international (IMO, ICAO, UNFCCC) perspective as well as at EU level (climate change, taxation, air pollution, regulatory issues). His previous experience includes Head of Consulting at American Express Europe, Director eCLIPSE Advisors Europe, management positions at Cathay Pacific Airways, and Australian Foreign Service postings to Mexico, New York, Ottawa and Vienna covering UN and bilateral issues. Bill’s varied career has involved a wide range of policy and negotiating responsibilities including managing the private office of the Departmental Head in Canberra, aviation traffic rights and commercial joint ventures, pan-European supplier negotiations, overseeing outsourced contract negotiations with leading EU companies, coordinating WEOG policy input to UNOV and UNIDO, political reporting on Central American wars. He studied physics, mathematics and economics in Tasmania and holds a Masters in International Relations from Oxford University.
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Arnaud Leroy, Senior Project Officer, EMSA
Leroy is a holder of a LLM on Maritime Law and Law of the Sea from the School of Law of Nantes. He joined the European Parliament as advisor in 2000. The files he handled included the development of EU maritime legislation (Erika packages), and other transport and environment related matters. He joined EMSA in February 2004 as Senior Project officer and is dealing with Environment Protection, more particularly Directive 2005/59/EC on port reception facilitie and Directive 2005/33 on marine fuels. He is also involved in the development related to the GHG emissions and shipping and he is currently working closely with the European Commission in the context of the revision of the marine fuels Directive. |
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Jeffrey G. Lantz, Director, Commercial Regulations and Standards, U.S. Coast Guard
Mr. Lantz is Director, Commercial Regulations and Standards for the Coast Guard’s Assistant Commandant for Marine Safety, Security and Stewardship. His responsibilities include the development of U.S. national maritime safety and environmental protection regulations and policies and leading U.S. initiatives in the development of international maritime safety, security and environmental protection standards at the International Maritime Organization (IMO). Mr. Lantz represents the U.S. at the IMO in many capacities including as head of delegation to both the Maritime Safety Committee and Marine Environmental Protection Committee and he currently serves as the Chairman of the IMO Council. |
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Keith Forget, Senior Technical Consultant, DNV Petroleum Services
Prior to his current role he worked for 40 years with Shell, starting his career as an engineer cadet in Shell Tankers UK Ltd. and finishing as the Global Technical Manager in Shell Marine Products Ltd. (SMP), from which he retired at the end of 2009. He was the manager of the Global Technical Service Unit in the newly formed Shell Marine Products Ltd. in 1997. During this period he developed and managed the Fuel Oil Quality Assurance System and was the product manager for SMP’s marine fuels product range. Externally he was an active member of the CIMAC heavy fuels working group, the ISO working group that developed ISO8217:2010 and was an advisor to the UK delegation during the development of the revised MARPOL Annex VI – 2009 edition. He was also a member of the Singapore MPA Third Maritime Research and Development Advisory Panel. |
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Per Erik Olsen, Head of Operations, Torvald Klaveness Group
Olsen has long experience from the shipping industry after entering Torvald Klaveness in 1991, where he stayed until 1997 working as Cadet, 2nd Off. and then Chief Officer. He started as a Safety & Quality Co-ordinator at Tschudi & Eitzen in 1997 and became later Safety & Quality- / Operation Manager and Chartering Manager. Back in 2002 he returned to Torvald Klaveness as Operation Manager and has since 2004 been Vice President Head of Operation. |
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Olav Vikøren, partner in the Shipping and Offshore group of Thommessen
He has extensive experience of working for ship owners, charterers, shipyards, financial institutions and insurance companies; first as lawyer with the Nordic Shipowners Defence Club and later as a partner in the law firms Lund & Co and Thommessen. His main area of work has been “dry” shipping law, which involves advice and dispute resolution related to charterparties, sale and purchase contracts, newbuilding and repair contracts, pool agreements and international joint venture arrangements. He also provides operative and strategic advisory services and has been involved in several significant transactions and company restructurings in the industry. Olav Vikøren is ranked as a leading professional within Shipping in Norway. |
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Jeff Lock, Senior Claims Executive, Thomas Miller Defence Club Limited
Lock is a former master mariner having spent 18 years in the British merchant navy from cadet to master, serving mainly on oil tankers. He then spent two years with Lloyds Register prior to qualifying as a lawyer. He then spent 18 years working as a maritime lawyer specialising in casualty and technical shipping disputes including bunker contamination claims. He joined Thomas Miller in December 2011 as Senior Claims Executive.
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