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PROFESSOR D. RHIDIAN THOMAS is Professor of Maritime Law and Director of the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law at the School of Law, University of Swansea,Wales, UK. His principal research interests are in the fields of maritime, marine insurance, international trade and international commercial arbitration law. He has previously held positions at various universities and lectured internationally. His principal publications are Maritime Liens (British Shipping Law Series, Stevens & Co, 1980); The Law and Practice Relating to Appeals from Arbitration Awards (LLP, 1994); Default Powers of Arbitrators (LLP, 1996); and as editor and contributor to Modern Law of Marine Insurance, Vol. 1 (LLP, 1996) and Vol. 2 (LLP, 2002). He has also published widely in academic journals. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of International Maritime Law and an editor of Arbitration International, and a member of the CMI (member of the Marine Insurance Committee), British Maritime Law Association (chairman of the Sub-committee on Ship Arrest and Mortgages), Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and British Insurance Law Association.

DR PHIL ANDERSON B.A. (Hons), D.Prof. (Middlesex), FNI, MEWI, AMAE, Master Mariner, is Managing Director of Consult ISM Ltd and Immediate Past President of The Nautical Institute. Dr Anderson heads his own company providing specialist consultancy services and expert witnesses in legal actions and disputes where the management of safety may be an issue. He is a Class One Master Mariner with 11 years seagoing experience. He then worked for over 25 years with P&I Clubs - initially handling claims and disputes and latterly pioneering accident prevention initiatives and risk management with the Club. Since the end of 2004 he has worked independently as an ISM expert. He is author (or co-author) of numerous books on the ISM Code and related topics, evidence collection as well as marine insurance and specifically third party liability/P&I insurance. He is the immediate past president of the international professional body for master mariners and others in control of seagoing ships - The Nautical Institute. A member of the Expert Witness Institute and a practicing associate of the. Academy of Experts. He is also a part time lecturer at the World Maritime University, the School of Marine Science and Technology at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and the School of Law at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle. He is a member of the IMO roster of experts and UK Government, MCA, human element working group.

MR ARCHIE BISHOP is a Solicitor both in England and Hong Kong, an Examiner in Admiralty and until recently was the Senior Partner of Holman Fenwick & Willan with whom he is now a Consultant. Trained aboard HMS Worcester he served seven years as a deck officer with the P&O Line before joining the firm in 1960.
Since that time he has specialised in collision, salvage, total loss and all other casualties. He has considerable experience in the investigation of large casualties, the resultant legal issues, choice and enforcement of appropriate jurisdiction, public enquiries and dealing with claims by government and local authorities concerning oil pollution, and has been involved in many leading cases. He is the Legal Adviser to the International Salvage Union, worked with the International Maritime Organization's Legal Committee in preparing the Salvage Convention, 1989, is a member of the drafting committee of LOF and played a leading role in the development of the SCOPIC Clause. He sits on the Salvage Committee of the British Maritime Law Association and the Salvage Liaison Group and is the Chairman of the Steering Committee of the London Shipping Law Centre. He is a CEDR Accredited Mediator and a visiting lecturer to the International Maritime Law Institute of Malta, and University College London.

PROFESSOR MARTIN DAVIES B.C.L, M.A. (Oxon), LLM (Harvard), Professor of Maritime Law, Director of Maritime Law Center, Tulane Law School. Professor Davies is the Director of the Maritime Law Center based in Tulane Law School. Before coming to Tulane, he was a law professor at The University of Melbourne in Australia and before that he taught at Monash University, The University of Western Australia and Nottingham University. He is author (or co-author) of books on maritime law, international trade law, conflict of laws, and the law of torts. He also has extensive practical experience as a consultant in maritime matters and general international litigation. He has advised on cargo claims, arrest and admiralty matters, drafting bills of lading, sea waybills and charterparties, collisions and limitation of liability, oil pollution, salvage, marine insurance, maritime arbitrations and international sale of goods.

MR COLIN DE LA RUE, Solicitor, Ince & Co. Colin de la Rue is a partner in Ince & Co whose main areas of practice since 1989 have related to pollution from ships. Working with others in the firm and overseas lawyers he has acted in most major oil spills in modern times. He is legal adviser on pollution matters to a number of shipping, insurance and oil industry bodies, and is acting for industry interests in proceedings to challenge the validity of the EU Directive on Criminal Sanctions. He is co-author of Shipping and the Environment (1998) and has twice chaired CMI international working groups concerned with pollution.

PROFESSOR ROBERT FORCE. At Tulane, Professor Force teaches two foundation courses in Maritime Law and advanced courses in Marine Pollution and Regulation of Shipping. He is a member of the Planning Committee of the Tulane Admiralty Law Institute and the Maritime Law Association of the United States. His publications have been cited by various courts including the Supreme Court of the United States.

PROFESSOR STEPHEN GIRVIN is Professor of Maritime Law at the University of Birmingham. He has taught previously at the University of Aberdeen, the University of Nottingham, and the National University of Singapore (NUS). He remains associated with NUS as MPA Visiting Professor in Maritime Law and has previously held visiting positions at the Universities of Cape Town and Sydney. His research and teaching currently embrace shipping and maritime law and company law. He also has interests in international sales, legal history and torts. He is the author of Carriage of Goods by Sea (OUP, 2007), one of the authors of the 17th edition of Charlesworth and Morse's Company Law (Sweet & Maxwell, 2005), and is one of the editors of the looseleaf work, Palmer's Company Law (Sweet & Maxwell). He is a member of the Editorial Committee of the International Maritime and Commercial Law Yearbook (Informa). He has served as an academic advisor to the Legal Committee of the Singapore Shipping Association and acts from time to time as a consultant. He is a member of the maritime law associations of Singapore (the SMLA) and Britain (BMLA) and is a Supporting Member of the LMAA.

MR MÅNS JACOBSSON, Director of IOPC Funds. Mr Måns Jacobsson became Director of the International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds on 1 January 1985, following a career in Sweden where he served as a judge and thereafter became Assistant Under-Secretary and Head of Department for International Affairs in the Swedish Ministry of Justice. He was later appointed President of Division of the Stockholm Court of Appeal. He is also Visiting Professor of the World Maritime University in Malmo, Sweden and of Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.

MR SIMON KVERNDAL Q.C., M.A. (Cantab.), Barrister at Law, Quadrant Chambers. Simon Kverndal has a broad commercial practice with particular specialism in all aspects of maritime litigation and arbitration. This work typically involves detailed consideration of the many and varied technical issues which arise in the field of maritime transport and he is well known for his hands on co-operation with the consultant experts appointed in such cases. He comes from a family, originally from Norway, which has been involved for many generations in the shipping industry and in particular in maritime claims. He is a qualified mediator and also sits as an arbitrator. As well as being a member of the LMM (supporting member), COMBAR and the LCLBA, he is a Member of the Court of Assistants of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights.

MR NIGEL MEESON Q.C., B.A, M.A. (Oxon), Barrister at Law, Quadrant Chambers. Nigel Meeson graduated with 1st Class honours in Jurisprudence from Magdalen College, Oxford in 1981 and was called to the Bar in 1982. After a short time with a London P & I Club and lecturing in International Trade and Commercial law he has been in practice at the Bar in London specialising in shipping, insurance, aviation and other aspects of international trade and transport, commercial litigation and international and domestic arbitration and mediation. He took silk in 2002 and was appointed a Recorder in 2004. He has been a CEDR accredited mediator since 1993, is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and is a supporting Member of the London Maritime Arbitrators' Association. He is also admitted as an Attorney in California (1990). He was a visiting lecturer at University College London from 1994 to 2005, and is a member of the steering committee of the London Shipping Law Centre. He is the author of Admiralty Jurisdiction and Practice (1993), (3rd ed., 2003); Ship and Aircraft Mortgages (1989) a contributor to Ship Sale and Purchase (2nd ed., 1993), (3rd ed., 1998) and Jurisdiction and Forum Selection in International Maritime Law, Essays in Honor of Robert Force (2005).

PROFESSOR PROSHANTO KUMAR MUKHERJEE LL.B (Dalhousie), Ph.D. (Wales) is IFT Professor of Maritime Safety and Environmental Protection,World Maritime University, Malmo. Professor Mukherjee is Honourary Research Fellow of the University of Wales, Swansea, and Academic Coordinator of the joint Ph.D. programme in Maritime and Commercial Law of the World Maritime University and University of Wales, Swansea. He spent 16 years at sea which included command time. He read law at Dalhousie University, obtained his Ph.D. from University of Wales Swansea and was a practicing barrister and solicitor in Ontario. He was Senior Adviser, Maritime Policy and International Affairs of the Canadian Hydrographic Service and later, Senior Deputy Director and Professor of Maritime Law of the IMO International Maritime Law Institute in Malta. He was IMO Legal Adviser for the Caribbean Region and has drafted shipping and marine environmental legislation for numerous jurisdictions worldwide. He is author of Maritime Legislation (WMU Publications, 2002). His extensive publications embrace every aspect of public and private maritime law. He is co-editor of Maritime Violence and Other Security Issues at Sea (WMU Publications, 2002) and is currently co-authoring Farthing on International Shipping (4th ed.). He was a member of the Advisory Board of Editors of the Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce and is on the editorial boards of the WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs and the Journal of International Maritime Law. Professor Mukherjee is a Fellow of the Nautical Institute and an Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation in London.

PROFESSOR ERIK ROSAEG is a member of the Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law based in the University of Oslo. He holds a master degree and doctorate from the same University and has been working there since 1982, except for a period in the Norwegian Ministry of Justice 1995-96. Professor Rosaeg regularly represents his native country Norway at the IMO Legal Committee and similar meetings, and has chaired a number of working groups. For more than a decade he has been a pivotal figure in the development of International Maritime Law Conventions, such as the HNS Convention 1996, the Athens Convention 2002 and the Athens Implementation Guidelines 2006. He has a special interest for compulsory insurance schemes. His teaching and research interests include maritime law, contract law and third party relations in private law (bankruptcy, mortgages and property conflicts). He has also had an interest in diverse subjects like law and economics, electronic commerce, protection of minors (in particular asylum seekers) and health information in insurance. During the academic year 2006-2007, Professor Rosaeg has been a visiting researcher at the Institute of Maritime Law, University of Southampton.

PROFESSOR DR FRANK SMEELE, L.I.M. M.A. (Amsterdam) is Professor of Maritime Law at the Law Faculty, Erasmus University at Rotterdam and Attorney and Partner at Van Traa Advocation, Rotterdam. Professor Smeele (1966) graduated in Law and European Studies at the University of Amsterdam in 1991. In 1998 he received his PhD cum laude from Erasmus University Rotterdam for his thesis on The Identity of the Carrier under Bills of Lading. In 1998 he was admitted as attorney at law to the Rotterdam bar, where he practices maritime law at Van Traa Advocaten, the leading Dutch law firm in the field of maritime and transport law, since 2004 as partner. Also in 2004 Professor Smeele was appointed as part-time professor of Maritime Law at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is author (or co-author) of various of various books and articles on maritime law, transport law, general private law, conflict of laws and jurisdiction law. His has extensive experience in dealing with and litigating about cargo claims, arrest and admiralty matters, b/i and c/p disputes, collisions and limitation of liability.

DR BARIS SOYER B.A. (Ankara), LL.M, Ph.D (So'ton). Dr Soyer is Reader in Commercial and Maritime Law at the University of Swansea, where he is also a member of the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law. He is also the director of LLM Programmes. He was previously a lecturer at the University of Exeter. He is the author of Warranties in Marine Insurance (Cavendish Publishing, 2001). The second edition of this book was published in 2006.The first edition was the joint winner of the Cavendish Book Prize in 2001 and was awarded the Book Prize of the British Insurance Law Association in 2002. His principal interest is in the field of marine insurance, but his interests extend more broadly throughout maritime and contract law. He has published extensively in these areas. Dr Soyer is an editor of the Journal of International Maritime Law and is on the editorial board of Shipping and Trade Law and Baltic Maritime Law Quarterly.

MR TOBY STEPHENS, Solicitor, Holman Fenwick & Willan. Mr Toby Stephens is a solicitor specialising in maritime law. Toby worked for a short time as a marine surveyor prior to being admitted as a solicitor in 1999 with another firm. Toby joined Holman Fenwick & Willan's Admiralty and Crisis Management team in 2001 focusing on all aspects of marine casualties, where he was made a partner in 2007. As well as dealing with collisions, pollution, limitation of liability and total loss,Toby has a particular interest in salvage and salvors' liabilities and has been involved in a number of high profile salvage cases, acting for salvors, ship owners, property underwriters and P&I Clubs.Toby has written several papers on the subject and has lectured on a variety of topics within the sphere of marine casualties. Toby has also undertaken a secondment to a leading Lloyd's syndicate as head of the legal department advising on all aspects of marine and insurance law.

PROFESSOR ANDREW TETTENBORN MA, LL.B (Cantab), Barrister, Bracton Professor of Law, University of Exeter. Andrew Tettenborn has been Bracton Professor of Law at Exeter Law School since 1996, having previously taught at the universities of Nottingham and Cambridge. In addition he has held visiting positions at Melbourne University, the University of Connecticut and also Case Law School, Cleveland, Ohio. He is author (or co-author) of books on torts, damages and maritime law, and of numerous articles and chapters on aspects of common law, commercial law and restitution.

PROFESSOR RICHARD WILLIAMS LLB (Wales) LLM (London), Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law, University of Swansea. Richard Williams retired from private practise at the end of 2000 after 30 years with Ince & Co. He had been a partner for 25 years and was chairman of the firm's dry shipping business group. He is now a Visiting Professor and teaches the law relating to Charterparties and Marine Cargo Claims at the University of Wales, Swansea. Throughout his career he has been involved not only in the litigation of cases to the highest courts of appeal in the UK and abroad but also in the development of policy and documentation within the industry both for clients and international industry bodies. He was closely connected with an agency of the United Nations for over 25 years and has been consulted by them and other international bodies such as UNCTAD, BIMCO and the International Group of Protection and Indemnity Clubs in relation to industry-wide issues and the drafting of standard documents. He is the author of numerous papers and articles on shipping law and is co-author of the text-book Limitation of Liability of Maritime Claims (published by Lloyd's of London Press) (4th ed., 2005). He is a regular speaker on maritime law matters at conferences around the world and organises and speaks at training courses for various industry bodies.

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