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Speakers

Patrick Rodgers

CEO, Euronav; Director and Chairman of the International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation Fund

Patrick Rodgers has served on the Board of Directors of Euronav since June 2003 and has been a member of the executive
committee since 2004. He was appointed Chief Financial Oficer of the predecessor of the company in 1998 and has been
Chief Executive Oficer since 2000. He is currently a Director and Chairman of the International Tanker Owners’ Pollution Federation

Fund. Previously he has held various directorships in companies belonging to the CMB and Euronav group. Mr Rodgers also worked at
CMB group as an in-house Lawyer and subsequently as Shipping Executive.

Koji Sekimizu

Secretary-General, International Maritime Organization

Koji Sekimizu has held the position of Secretary-General with the International Maritime Organization (IMO) since 2011. He
joined IMO in 1989 and has held previous roles including Technical Oficer in the organisation’s technology sub-division and
head of the technology section. Originally from Yokohoma, Japan, Koji graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in engineering and went on to obtain
a Master’s in engineering. In 1977 he entered the Ministry of Transport of Japan (MOT) and was appointed as a Ship Inspector. He later moved
to the MOT headquarters and acted as Chief Oficer in charge of IMO regulations in the safety planning section of the Ship Bureau.

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inancial crisis and its aftermath. Dr Sentance also held senior positions at the London Business School and British Airways, where he co
was Chief Economist and Head of Environmental Affairs. He has provided economic advice to businesses, the UK Government and rrec
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mechanics of lightweight composite structures with potential applications in civil construction, marine and transportation sectors, heo th
has also worked on the design of ship systems. He has published 15 books and over 300 papers in archival journals and proceedings of e L
refereed conferences. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Engineering for the Maritime Environment (Proceedings of the ISW
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Dresdner and Kleinwort in 2009 where he held the positions of Group Vice Chairman and Chairman of the UK bank. p-to
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Defence. He has previously held the role of Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts from 2010 to 2011 and ship
Second Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2011 to 2012. Lui was a Singapore Armed Forces (Overseas) scholar, graduating with a degree in pin
Chemistry from Trinity College, University of Cambridge in 1983. He subsequently served in the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN), rising to gw
the position of Chief of Navy in 1999. Lui was elected as Member of Parliament for Moulmein-Kallang GRC in the general election in 2011.ee
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