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Mr. Xiaojie Zhang |
Mr. Xiaojie Zhang is the Director of Technical Cooperation Division of International Maritime Organization (IMO), since November 2020. Before joining IMO Secretariat, Mr. Zhang had worked for the Ministry of Transport, China from 2012 – 2020 as the Counsel/Deputy Director General, Department of International Cooperation and previously as the Director of Bilateral and Regional Cooperation and Director of International Organizations and Multilateral Affairs, Department of International Cooperation, Ministry of Transport from 2002 to 2012. Mr. Zhang had overseen many bilateral and regional transport cooperation activities between the Government of China and the European Union, Central Asia, Latin America, and African countries. He had been in charge of China’s participation in many international activities, with a focus on transport-related international organizations and other multilateral/regional cooperation. From 2015 to 2017 he had been the Head of the Chinese delegation to the IMO’s Council and Marine Environment Protection Committee. Mr. Zhang was the elected Chair of the IMO Council from 2017 to 2020, before joining IMO Secretariat. |
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Mr. Stuart Chape |
Stuart Chape has been a programme Director at SPREP since 2005, currently as Director – Island and Ocean Ecosystems Programme. He is also currently Acting Deputy Director General – Technical Programmes. Prior to working for SPREP he worked as a programme manager for the UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre in Cambridge, UK; Assistant Director – World Heritage Branch, Australian Department of Environment and Heritage; and previously IUCN Country Representative in Lao PDR. He has worked in SE Asia, Middle East and 20 years in the Pacific islands region. He has graduate and post-graduate qualifications from the University of Canberra and Australian National University. |
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Mr. Stuart Minchin |
Dr Stuart Minchin is currently the Director-General/CEO of the largest intergovernmental organisation in the Pacific. The Pacific Community (SPC) is a science and technology for development organisation owned by the 26 Member countries and territories in the Pacific region. SPC’s 650 staff deliver services and scientific advice to the Pacific across the domains of Oceans, Islands and People, and has deep expertise in food security, water resources, fisheries, disasters, energy, maritime, health, statistics, education, human rights, social development and natural resources. Stuart was previously Chief of the Environmental Geoscience Division of Geoscience Australia. He has an extensive background in the management and modelling of environmental data and the online delivery of data, modelling and reporting tools for improved natural resource management. Stuart has represented Australia in key international forums and was Australia’s Principal Delegate to both the UN Global Geospatial Information Management Group of Experts (UNGGIM) and the Intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations (GEO). He also currently serves on the Editorial Board of the international Journal “Ecological Indicators”. Dr. Minchin holds a B.Sc. (Aquatic Science) from Deakin University, Warrnambool, a B.Sc. (Honours) from Monash University, Melbourne and a Ph.D. – Aquatic Chemistry from Monash University, Melbourne. |
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Mr. Bekir Sitki Ustaoglu |
Mr. Bekir Sitki Ustaoğlu is the Head, Asia and Pacific Section, Technical Cooperation Division, International Maritime Organization (IMO). Mr. Ustaoğlu coordinates technical assistance programmes under IMO’s Integrated Technical Cooperation Programme (ITCP) for its Member States in the Asia and Pacific Region. In terms of his experience, Mr. Ustaoğlu was the alternative permanent representative of Turkey to IMO, the Deputy Undersecretary for the Maritime Administration of Turkey, faculty member of the Maritime Faculty of Istanbul Technical University and has Sea service experience on board various types of cargo ships for the past 30 years. Mr. Ustaoğlu has a Doctorate in Maritime Policy, a Masters in Engineering and a Degree in Nautical Science from the Institute of Marine Science and Management, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey. Amongst his Professional qualification – Unlimited Master Marine (COC/Republic of Turkey, GMDSS General Operator (CoC/ Republic of Turkey and UK) and VTS Instructor and Operator (Turkish Straits Vessel Traffic Services). Mr. Ustaoğlu is a member of the ITU Maritime Faculty Alumni Association (since 1990), Nautical Institute of London (since 1993), Royal Institute of Navigation, London (since 1993) and the Turkish Oceangoing Masters’ Association (since 2001).
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Chairs for each day |
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Ms. Brenda Pimentel |
Mrs. Brenda V. Pimentel is a lawyer by profession who, after her retirement as Regional Coordinator of the IMO Regional Presence for Technical Cooperation in East Asia, continues to be engaged as an IMO Consultant in various projects. Her most recent IMO projects include the following:
Mrs. Pimentel is also engaged by the Philippine Association of Maritime Institutions as legal adviser since 2017 up to the present. She founded the Women in Maritime – Philippines (WIMAPHIL) and helped organize regional WIMAs. She is involved in several maritime research activities as President of the Philippine Maritime Research, Studies and Services. Mrs. Pimentel is one of the conveners of the Movement for Maritime Philippines which is working on the stakeholders draft for a national maritime agenda. Prior to her appointment as IMO Regional Coordinator, Mrs. Pimentel worked at the Philippine Maritime Industry Authority (MARINA) for twenty-four years and was the Director of the Overseas Shipping Office up to 2003. Known as a staunch advocate for the maritime industry, Mrs. Pimentel, a columnist of the Manila Times’ maritime page, takes protection of the marine environment as a regular subject in her column. |
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Mr. Omirete Tabureka, Team Leader, Oceans and Maritime Programme, GEM Division, SPC |
Mr. Omirete Tabureka is currently the Team Leader – Maritime Affairs under the Oceans and Maritime Programme (OMP) of the Geoscience, Energy and Maritime (GEM) Division of SPC. Omirete is a Master Mariner by profession, graduated from New Zealand Maritime School in 2003. He also acquired a Diploma in Maritime Business Management in 2013 from Lloyds Academy. He has about 20 years of experience in the maritime sector, having worked on board international and domestic cargo vessels as well at the maritime administration and port authority in his home country Kiribati. Mr. Tabureka joined SPC in 2014 as the Ship Safety Audit Adviser under the Transport Programme of the Economic Development Division (EDD) then, responsible for implementation of the Pacific Islands Domestic Ship Safety (PIDSS) Programme in the Pacific region. In 2018 he took the role of the Team Leader of Maritime Affairs of the GEM Division, the position he is holding up until now. His work at SPC is mostly on providing technical assistance and support on sustainable maritime transport and safe navigation in the region, together with the Maritime Affairs Team of OMP. |
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Mr. Jens Kruger |
Mr. Jens Kruger is currently the Deputy Director for the Ocean and Maritime Programme of SPC. Jens is a graduate of the University of the South Pacific, Fiji and completed an MSC at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He has over 20 years of experience leading multi-disciplinary applied research projects and has a particular interest in the use of marine science and technology in managing the development challenges of Pacific Small Island Developing States. Jens has shaped the regional approach to maritime boundaries for many years and is passionate about collaborative approaches to ocean governance. Jens has worked in over 20 countries including several years as a seafarer on marine survey vessels. This work in the industry and with intergovernmental organisations has resulted in more than 80 publications including technical reports, maps, scientific papers and book chapters. |
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Ms. Mavis Joseph – IMO Technical Cooperation Officer |
Ms. Mavis E. V. Joseph-Logavatu is IMO’s Regional Presence Officer for the Pacific Region since March 2018 under the current collaborative arrangements between IMO, SPC and SPREP. Her work is integrated into the SPC legal work programme, and she facilitates the coordination of activities supported by IMO in the Pacific region. Ms. Joseph-Logavatu was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor in the High Court of Fiji in 2005 and has over 13 years’ experience collectively as in-house legal counsel in Fiji’s transport sector – Land Transport Authority, Civil Aviation Authority of Fiji and the Maritime Safety Authority of Fiji. Mavis holds a Master of Laws in International Maritime Law from the IMO International Maritime Law Institute in Malta and was awarded the Professor Walter Muller for best legislative drafting in her graduate class of 2015. Mavis was also the Chairperson of the Pacific Women In Maritime Association (PacWIMA) from 2016 to 2018, having been part of the team that revived the Association with the assistance of SPC and IMO, and continues to support the work of PacWIMA as IMO’s regional presence in the Pacific. Mavis is an advocate for women in the maritime sector and the capacity development of the Pacific people. |
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Anthony Talouli |
Mr. Anthony Talouli is the Pollution Adviser and the Acting Director for the Waste Management and Pollution Programme at the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) which is the premier intergovernmental agency for the Pacific environment. His role at SPREP involves strategic programme leadership management and planning, programme performance monitoring and reporting, member and donor liaison, as well as project coordination, implementation and management particularly with respect to the management of terrestrial and marine pollution as part of the Secretariat work as outlined in the SPREP Strategic Plan 2017-2026. Part of this role is managing the marine environment protection aspect of the International Maritime Organisation Technical Cooperation Programme in the region that addresses ship sourced pollution, including oil, hazardous chemicals, marine debris and plastics. In the region, this work is under the Noumea Convention and its Protocols. As well as the Integrated Waste and Pollution Management 2016-2025 (Cleaner Pacific 2025), the Pacific Oceans Pollution Prevention Programme (PACPOL) Strategy 2015-2020, and the Pacific Regional Marine Litter Action Plan 2018-2025. Anthony has an engineering and management background from RMIT in Melbourne Australia. He has been at SPREP for the last 14yrs and previous to that, 10yrs in the oil industry with the Shell Company. |
Speakers and Panel members |
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Commander Roxanne Jensen |
Commander Roxanne Jensen reported to Coast Guard Fourteenth District in Honolulu, Hawaii as the Chief of Marine Environmental Response in July 2020. She is responsible for pollution preparedness and response, oversees the District Response Advisory Team, and is a Search and Rescue Mission Coordinator for the Oceania region. Past assignments include Coast Guard Sector Corpus Christi, Texas, where she served as the Incident Management Division Chief responsible for pollution incident response and environmental law enforcement in the 5th largest petrochemical port of the United States. She attended Texas A&M University for the Coast Guard’s Environmental Management graduate program, and subsequently served in the Office of Marine Environmental Response Policy at U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, Washington, D.C. Assigned to the International and Domestic Preparedness Division, she was responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining bilateral agreements and joint contingency plans with neighboring nations as well as multilateral efforts in the Caribbean region. After her Headquarters assignment, she reported to Sector Lower Mississippi River, Memphis, Tennessee as the Chief of Response where she was responsible for pollution response, search and rescue mission coordination, law enforcement, maritime security, contingency planning, and force readiness throughout the U.S. mid-South. |
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Darren Waterman |
Darren has been involved in the oil spill response industry for the last 21 years and gained considerable experience from responding to marine and terrestrial oil spill incidents around the world. Darren has worked in various capacities within OSRL, including oil spill preparedness - Training & Consultancy, Response Operations and Business Development. |
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Thierry Nerval |
Thierry Nervale is the Director of the Solomon Islands Maritime Authority (SIMA) in Honiara and lead the organisation to become the independent and self-sufficient maritime administration of Solomon Islands. Previously, Thierry was Deputy Director of the Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division of the Pacific Community (SPC) and head of the Oceans and Maritime Programme. He has been working for more than 10 years in Pacific Islands Countries and Territories either in leadership roles or in development of maritime administrations. Thierry holds a Master Degree of “Law and Safety of Maritime and Oceanic Activities” from the University of Nantes in France. |
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Mr. Allen Kisi Ofea |
Allen Kisi Ofea is the Principal Officer, Pollution and Safety Response at the Solomon Islands Maritime Authority (SIMA) who is responsible for leading a team preparing and coordinating the response to any pollution event or search and rescue operation and monitoring maritime traffic in the Solomon Islands.
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Mr. Jamie Storrie Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) |
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Mr. Mick Fleming |
Mick Fleming is currently the Principal Advisor Policy, Plans and Exercises with the Australian Maritime Safety Authority. Mick is a career emergency management professional with significant operational and training experience in fire services and whole of government emergency management. Mick has been appointed to key roles in Queensland Fire & Rescue Service, Emergency Management Queensland, Emergency Management Australia and Australian Maritime Safety Authority. |
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Mr. Matt Johnston |
Matt Johnston is the Manager of Maritime Safety and Environment Policy in the Australian Maritime Safety Authority. His responsibilities include developing standards and guidance to address shipping’s environmental impacts and incident liability and compensation matters. Matt and his team attend the meetings of the International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds (IOPC), IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) and Pollution Prevention and Response Subcommittee (PPR). Matt has worked for the Australian Government for over 20 years in environment and regulatory roles related to maritime, port and offshore petroleum activities. |
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Mr. Andrew Griffiths |
Andrew Griffiths is currently the Senior Advisor Incident Planning and Preparedness with the Australian Maritime Safety Authority. Andrew has an environmental science back ground with almost 30 years’ experience in environmental planning, incident planning and incident response. Prior to Joining AMSA he worked in and managed parts of several World Heritage Areas including the Great Barrier Reef and Ningaloo Reef World Heritage Areas. He has significant pollution response experience and has lead Australia’s operational response to numerous incidents including the Solomon Trader, Kea Trader, Rena and the Tycoon. |
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Mr. Sesoni Komaisoso |
Mr. Sesoni Komaisoso is the Manager Ship Inspection and Officer in Charge for the Maritime Safety Authority of Fiji (MSAF). With more than 25 years in shipping management, Mr. Komaisoso is a Master-Mariner (AMSA 2000) and holds a TAFE Advanced Diploma in Marine Operations from the Sydney Institute of Technology. He is also a Part Time Tutor with Fiji’s Maritime Academy and an Executive Member of Fiji’s Institute of Maritime Officers Guild (IMOG).
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Mr. Mick Courtnell |
Mick Courtnell Maritime New Zealand Role- National on-Scene Commander. Training and Exercise Manager |
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Ms. Julke Brandt
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Ms. Julke Brandt works for the International Maritime Organization as the OPRC / OPRC HNS Technical Officer in charge of matters related to Oil and HNS spill preparedness, response and cooperation in the Marine Environment Division, Sub-division for Implementation. Ms. Brandt has a Master Mariner Certificate of Competency and has previously worked as technical ship pollution response adviser for spills of oil, HNS and plastic in Europe, Africa and Asia. |
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Dr. Duarte Soares
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Dr Duarte Soares joined ITOPF in 2017. He is a geologist with an MSc in petroleum geoscience and a PhD in stratigraphy. Since joining ITOPF, Dr. Soares has attended incidents involving spills of bunkers and crude oil in Asia, South America, Oceania and Europe, including the SANCHI incident in the East China Sea. He is the coordinator of the ITOPF R&D Award and the lead of the Mapping, Modelling and Monitoring internal working group, and has been involved in the revision of national contingency plans for several African countries, participated in international conferences and collaborated in the delivery of awareness and preparedness courses at governmental level. |
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Mr. Jan de Boer |
Mr. Jan Engel de Boer is Senior Legal Officer at the Legal Affairs Office of the Legal Affairs and External Relations Division of the International Maritime Organization – IMO. Mr. De Boer is inter alia responsible in the IMO Secretariat for the facilitation of the entry into force of the International Convention on Liability and Compensation for Damage in Connection with the Carriage of Hazardous and Noxious Substances by Sea, 2010. In 2018 he organized a two-day International Workshop on the 2010 HNS Convention at IMO. Mr. De Boer is also member of the IMO Seafarer Crisis Action Team (SCAT) which was established by the Secretary-General in response to the growing concern over the crew change crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Before joining the UN’s maritime agency, Mr. De Boer served as Senior Legal Counsel at the Netherlands Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management. As Vice-Chairman of the IMO Legal Committee, he was involved in numerous international conventions and attended many Diplomatic Conferences, including on the revision of CLC and Fund Convention and on the HNS Convention and Protocol. In 2007 he was elected Chairman of the Committee of the Whole of the successful IMO International Conference on the Removal of Wrecks in Nairobi, Kenya. He acted as Chairman of the Signing Ceremony of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea, ‘Rotterdam Rules’ in 2009. Jan de Boer obtained Master of Laws at Univer¬sity of Amsterdam (specialization Private Law, Maritime and Transport law and English law at University of Exeter, Devon) in 1985 and International Law at State University Leyden in 1987. |
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Moderator – Mr. David Baker |
David has over twenty years’ experience working at both government and NGO level on liability, compensation and pollution related matters in the maritime field. Between 1999-2004, David was Deputy Head of the UK Government delegation to the IMO Legal Committee and the IOPC Funds; Deputy Head of the UK Government delegation to the 2001 Bunkers Convention diplomatic conference; the 2002 Athens Protocol diplomatic conference and the 2003 Supplementary IOPC Fund Protocol diplomatic conference, and also represented the UK government on liability and compensation matters at meetings of the EU Council. David joined the International Group of P&I Clubs (IG) in 2004 and has been the International Group’s accredited representative and head of delegation to the IMO and the IOPC Funds since then and on pollution matters in general. David holds Masters’ degrees in both Business Administration (MBA) and International Maritime Law (LLM). |
Presentations
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| Presentation 0 | Workshop Overview & Introduction |
Mr. Anthony Talouli |
| Presentation 1 | Solomon Trader Incident - Narrative as to the what, when, where and why and the damage that followed | Mr. Allen Kisi Ofea, Principal Officer, Pollution and Safety Response, Solomon Islands Maritime Authority (SIMA). |
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Solomon Trader Incident - Mobilizing response capabilities to contain the oil spill and mitigate damage to the marine environment Discuss the initial steps and response measures taken |
Mr. Andrew Griffiths, Senior Advisor Incident Planning and Preparedness, AMSA Mr. Mick Courtnell, Team Leader, Marine Pollution Response Service, MNZ |
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Applicable IMO Conventions pertaining to oil spill preparedness and response Specific obligations of signatory States to the OPRC Convention and OPRC-HNS Protocol Status of accession and implementation by Pacific Islands States Challenges to accession |
Ms. Julke Brandt |
Day 2 |
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| Presentation 1 | Virtual Roundtable Discussions: “Solomon Trader Incident: Lessons Learnt; ways to address Areas of Concern” | Mr. Thierry Nervale, Director, Solomon Islands Maritime Authority (SIMA) |
| Presentation 2 | Anthony Talouli, Acting Director | Pollution Adviser – Waste Management and Pollution Control Programme, SPREP | |
| Presentation 3 | Mr. Mick Fleming, Principal Advisor, Policy, Plans & Exercises, AMSA | |
| Presentation 4 | Mr. Mick Courtnell, Team Leader, Marine Pollution Response Service, MNZ | |