Advisory Board Members
Mr. Paul Holthus, Founding President & CEO, World Ocean Council, USA
Mr. Andreas Bullwinkel, Landlord & CEO, Container Terminal Wilhelmshaven JadeWeserPort-Marketing GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
Dr. Tai-Wen Hsu, Vice-President, Professor, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan, China
Mr. Matthew Tan, Co-Chair for Sustainable Development in Agriculture and Fisheries Sector, APEC Policy Partnership on Food Security, Singapore
Dr. Charles C Zhou, CEO, Cascade Clean Energy, Inc., USA
Mrs. Charlotte Ahrendt Steen, Deputy Director-General, DANISH MARITIME AUTHORITY, Denmark
Porf. Yasuo ARAI, President of IAIN (International Association of Institutes of Navigation), Japan
Dr. Pichai Sonchaeng, Founder President, Samudhabhipat (Marine Power) Foundation; Director, BUU Innopolis, Burapha University, Thailand
Mr. Yves De Leeneer, President Elect, Board Member, IMarEST, Singapore
Dr. Koh Chan Ghee, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Mr. Esa Nikunen, General Director, Environment Services, City of Helsinki, Finland
Dr. Ang Chin Hup, Researcher, Centre for Maritime Economics & Industries, Maritime Institute of Malaysia, Malaysia
Dr. Eric Rolf Hansen, President, Economic Transformations Group, Inc., USA
Mrs. Barbara Amerio, President, Permare Group, Italy
Dr. Lauri Railas, Attorney and Owner, Railas Attorneys Ltd., Finland
Mr. Yiqiang Xiang, Prof. & Director (RCSFT, CCEA,ZJU), College of Civil Engineering and Architecture(CCEA),Zhejiang University, Research Center for Submerged Floating Tunnel, CCEA, ZJU, China
Dr. Jin Wang, Vice President, Engineering COTEC Offshore Engineering Solutions, USA
Mr. Ali Baghaei, CEO & MD, Aquanet Power Limited, UK
Dr. Ove T. Gudmestad, Professor, University of Stavanger, Norway
Mr. James Fanshawe, Chairman, UK MASRWG, UK
Prof. Laurence McCook, Head of Oceans Conservation, World-Wide Fund for Nature Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Ms. Abigail-Laure Kern, UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development, Cooperation & Development Center, Switzerland
Dr. Andreas Nordseth, Director General, Danish Maritime Authority, Denmark
Dr. Angelica M. Baylon, Director, Maritime Academy of Asia and the Philippines, Philippines
Mr. James Huang, Vice President, DNV GL, Norway
Dr. Dorte Janussen, Head, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Germany
Dr. Elias Boletis, Director, Wartsila, The Netherlands
Mr. P. Foerd Ames, Inventor & Owner, OWECO Ocean Wave Energy Company, USA
Dr. George Zambartas, Head of Shipping & Cyprus Corporate Law Dept, L. G. Zambartas LLC, Cyprus
Mr. George Guy Thomas, Creator of satellite-based AIS, former US Science & Technology Advisor for Maritime Domain Awareness , USA
Capt. Lee Fook Choon, Director, Toplis & Harding (Marine) Ltd., Hong Kong
Mr. Govintharasah Ramanathan, Director, Gurbani & Co., Singapore
Dr. Tetsuya Hiraishi, Professor, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan
Miss. Rosita Lau, Partner, Ince & Co International Law Firm, Hong Kong, China
Mr. Jens Peter Thomsen, Founder, Managing Director and Board Member, Ocean Team Group of Companies, Denmark
Dr. Ikuo Yamamoto, Professor, Nagasaki University, Japan
Mr. Douglas Woodring, Director/Co-Founder, Ocean Recovery Alliance, Ocean Recovery Alliance, Hong Kong
Mr. Gerhard Aulbert, Global Head Ship Recycling, DNV GL, Norway
Mr. Heinz Schelwat, President, Sea & Sun Technology GmbH, Germany
Dr. Henrik Schmidt, Professor & Director, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Dr. James A. Taylor, President, Quadrule Services Inc., Canada
Mr. Kejun Li, Chairman, China Association of Communication Enterprise Management
Mr. Michael G. Zell, Chairman, Svenska Skeppshypotek, Sweden
Mr. Roger Johnston, CEO, Pilbara Ports Authority, Australia
Captain Frederick James Francis, Head, International Maritime Programmes Division,Singapore Maritime Academy, Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore
Dr. Matthias Rapp, Chairman & CEO, Straits International AB, Sweden
Prof. Jian Lu, Group Leader of Coastal Water Resource Protection and Sustainable Utilization, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Dr. Marinko Oluic, Professor, Council for Remote Sensing - Croatian Academy, Croatia
Dr. Baoguo Han, Professor, School of Civil Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, China
Dr. Chunjiang An, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director (MASc & PhD), Concordia University Research Chair in Spill Response and Remediation, Canada
Dr. Maksim Sonin, Fellow, Stanford University, USA