Pia Rebelo

Legal Analyst, Stephenson Harwood LLP

Pia Rebelo is an admitted attorney from South Africa and a lecturer in private law. She obtained her LLB and LLM at the University of Cape Town and completed her PhD at the City Law School, City St George's University of London. Her key research interest is the way in which contracts can facilitate decarbonisation in the shipping industry. Pia also works as a Legal Analyst at Stephenson Harwood LLP where she works in the decarbonisation team to deliver advice and contractual clauses for clients. She teaches maritime law, cross-border commercial law, and contract law, and has published work on green finance frameworks, green supply chain finance, decarbonisation of shipping contracts, polar shipping, and climate litigation.

 

Professor Gerasimos Theotokatos FIMarEST

DNV Professor of Safety of Marine System, University of Strathclyde

I am the DNV Professor of Safety of Marine Systems at the Maritime Safety Research Centre (MSRC) of the Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean & Marine Engineering at the University of Strathclyde since June 2020. I am the Director of the MSRC, a world-class centre of excellence with a vision to shape the maritime safety, which was established as a significant Industry-University partnership involving the University of Strathclyde, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and DNV Classification Society. I graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 1994 and obtained a PhD degree, also from NTUA, in 2001 in the discipline of Marine Engineering. My research focuses on the development of scientific approaches to holistically capture the safety, energy and sustainability interplay of the complex marine systems including cyber-physical and autonomous systems. My research supports the development and use of advanced model-based methods and digital twin tools to address the design of safe, feasible and green alternatives to meet the demanding marine industry requirements, pursuing life-cycle risk and energy management, efficiency improvement, as well as safety and sustainability enhancement.

John Butler

Business Stream Director, Global Maritime

John is a Chartered Marine Engineer with over 25 years of experience across maritime, oil and gas, and the energy transition sectors. He began his career at sea as a marine engineer on chemical tankers before moving into senior leadership roles with major engineering companies including Jacobs, TechnipFMC, and Wood. John is a Fellow of the IMarEST, a project management professional, and an active mentor and member of the IMCA Sustainability Committee member supporting best practice in operations. Currently John is the Business Stream Director for Marine Services within Global Maritime.