Human Rights at Sea

Jan Heyen Oltmanns (born November 6, 1956 in Esens) is a German Protestant clergyman and sailor deacon. He studied youth work at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences for Social Education and trained as a Deacon at the Rauhen House.

At the Deutsche Seemannsmission Hamburg-Harburg he was responsible for the development of the International Sailor Club Duckdalben. In cooperation with Anke Wibel  he has been leading this sailor club since 1986. Today 938,000 guests from 181 countries around the world have visited the club.

Natalie has been the Director of Employment Affairs for the International Shipping Federation and International Chamber of Shipping, since March 2003.In her role she represents the industry on all Employment Affairs matters and coordinates Industry positions at the ILO, IMO, EC, WHO and other UM bodies as appropriate. She was actively involved in the development and implementation of the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 and discussions on the ILO minimum wage, Crew Claims and Abandonment, Revision of STCW and concerns related to Piracy to name but a few areas. Natalie is also a trustee for Seafarers UK.

Natalie is also actively involved with The International Seafarers Welfare Assistance Network (ISWAN) of which she was a Board member for a number of years for both its previous operations namely ISAN and ICSW. She is currently part of their Piracy subgroup formed since the integration of MPHRP under the charity. She is also Secretary of the Shipowner Group at the International Labour Organisation. She is also a voting member of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and gets actively involved in interfaith and diversity projects.

Natalie was previously a Trustee of Sailors Society and Chair of the Welfare and Chaplaincy Committtee. Her greatest personal pride was in leading their efforts in developing a project to provide housing and accommodation in the Philippines post typhoon Haiyaan which resulted in housing, medical centres, and assistance to schools hit by the event. This activity was driven by seeing the realities after the Indian Tsunami 10 years ago and a lack of coordination to expedite assistance to seafarers’ families at the time.

Since 2013, Mira Schwarz has been working at the Ship Security Department as a Flag State Surveyor and as a Port State Control Officer since 2014. Previously, she was 1st Officer at a German shipping company under German flag.

 

 

 

 

 

French Floridian in Germany building machine learning magic for the Maritime Industry. Former Quant at Deutsche Bank and Applied Math postdoc at UCLA.

Co-founder of the BlueBenu startup focused on recycling mixed plastic and other materials.

Dr. Torsten Büssow is Vice President of Global Head of Maritime Digital Business Unit (Fleet Performance) at DNVGL. He and his team are providing solutions to improve ships and shipping companies performance. Torsten has joined DNV GL in 2008 and has set up a Maritime Software business around a suite of Shipmanagement applications known as the “ShipManager”. He holds a PhD in decision theory. After a few years at BP he has worked as management consultant at Capgemini, a global management and IT consulting company focussing on logistics and transport clients.

Anders Flensborg is Managing Director of Munich-based Flensborg and Associates , a result-driven firm specialized in business development along the supply chain. The company excels in the Maritime and Transportation Industries and is experienced with capital, start-ups, technology, regional and industrial development as well as M&A.

In the summer of 2018, the company launched a digital replicate: www.flenzies.com

Anders Flensborg has been involved with the creation and early execution of a consolidation concept for the German Maritime Industry involving 11 vessel owners. He was a founder of ocean24.de, the maritime booking engine & disrupter launched during the New Economy.