Javier Franco, Socio Director / Managing Partner, Franco & Abogados Asociados, Derecho comercial, del transporte, marítimo, puertos y logística. Presidente de la Asociación Colombiana de Derecho Marítimo, miembro titular del Comité Marítimo Internacional y del IWG en Lex Marítima. Miembro de la comi... Please follow the link to continue reading.
Fergus Gifford is Director of Newbuilding and Sale & Purchase at Arrow in Tokyo. After seven years at Arrow in London and Hong Kong, he moved to Tokyo in August 2019. Born in London, he studied at Edinburgh University and has spent half his life in Asia, dividing his time between Tokyo, Kobe and Hon... Please follow the link to continue reading.
Conor Warde is the Head of Ship Finance for Asia at CMS and is based in Hong Kong. He is admitted in Hong Kong, England & Wales, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the US jurisdictions of Maryland and Washington, DC. He has a diverse practice advising clients on transactional, corporate, regu... Please follow the link to continue reading.
Madie has more than 15 years of experience in the maritime industry, starting with the agency Inchcape Shipping Services, her last position being Global Operations Manager for the Hub of the Americas. Currently, as Assistant Manager -Americas, she is in charge of helping and supporting our members i... Please follow the link to continue reading.
Capt. Michael P. Elwert has worked within the global shipping industry his entire working life and has over two decades of international management experience within the maritime industry. He gained his education with Maersk in Copenhagen and grew his global shipping acumen and exposure working from... Please follow the link to continue reading.
Joanna qualified as a lawyer in 1991 and worked for a law firm for several years before joining the North of England P&I Club as a lawyer in their FD&D department, working in Newcastle upon Tyne and then in Singapore. Joanna joined Skuld P&I Club in 2017 as Vice President, Claims and was promoted i... Please follow the link to continue reading.
Christian is BIMCO’s General Counsel. He is a lawyer and graduated from the University of Copenhagen with a Master’s degree in 2001 and an LL.M. with Distinction from the University of Southampton in 2004. He worked at the Danish Maritime Authority from 2001 until joining the European Commission’s D... Please follow the link to continue reading.
Manolis comes to shipping from a legal background having studied law in the UK and the University of Bristol. Following an initial period of working for law firms in Cyprus related to shipping and commercial/company law he then focused on marine insurance related matters. Having worked across variou... Please follow the link to continue reading.
Gudrun Janssens studied Chemistry with a specialization in environmental sciences in Ghent, Belgium. In 2000 she started working at the Public Waste Agency of Flanders. During that time, she also successfully completed her studies at the Maritime Institute of the University of Ghent. As senior polic... Please follow the link to continue reading.
Linos Choo focuses on general commercial litigation and arbitration with particular emphasis on shipping, commodities, and international trade finance. He has concluded many successful arbitrations under the auspices of the ICC, UNCITRAL, LCIA, LMAA, FOSFA, GAFTA, CIETAC, and SCMA amongst others. Li... Please follow the link to continue reading.
