Speakers
Mr Hannu Halinen
Arctic Ambassador of Finland, Arctic Council
Ambassador Hannu Halinen has a long career at the Finnish Foreign Ministry. He is heading the Arctic Team at the Foreign Ministry of Finland. At the same time, he is the Senior Arctic Official at the Arctic Council and the Finnish Representative at the Barents Euro-Arctic Council. He is also Secretary-General at the Arctic Advisory Board of the Government of Finland and contributing to the Arctic Policy of the European Union.
Mr Jari Haapala Head of Group, PhD, Marine Research Unit, Finnish Meteorological Institute
Jari Haapala is a physical oceanographer owing 20+ years experience on the field campaigns, data-analysis, remote sensing analysis and numerical modelling of sea ice. He received his PhD in geophysics (physical oceanography) in 2000 at the University of Helsinki.
He is a head of the marine dynamics and modelling group at the Finnish Meteorological Institute and an adjoint professor at the University of Helsinki. He is a president of the Ice Research Society of Finland, frequent reviewer of several high class journals and research proposals. He is has been involved on several international research projects such as IceState, IRIS, SafeWin, Damocles, and act as a co-chair of the Applied Science and Technology Committee of the International Ice Charting Working Group and is the Finnish represent of the EuroGoos. He has authored 42 peer-reviewed publications and 50 other scientific reports.
Mr Niko Ristikankare Vice President, Shipping and Terminals, Neste Oil Ltd
Capt. Oleg Glukhov Deputy Harbour Master on Branch Affairs, Sea Port of Saint Petersburg
Mr Morten Mejlænder-Larsen Director, Arctic Operations and Technology, Det Norske Veritas DNV
Morten Mejlaender-Larsen has a M. Sc. degree in Naval Architecture and Marine engineering from NTNU in Trondheim 1983. Following one year in the Navy, he has been working for DNV in different positions including advisory services within strength analyses of ships, Noise and Vibration etc. Since 2004 he has been Director for Arctic Operations and Technology in DNV. The activity includes management of and participation in R&D-, rule development- and JIP projects as well as advisory services.
Ms Leena Vedenpää Naval Architect, ILS Oy
Leena Vedenpää has graduated from Aalto University as Master of Science in Naval Architecture. In addition she has a B.Sc. on Environmental Engineering. She is currently working in ILS Oy, concentrating on projects concerning winter navigation, such as Safewin. Previously she has been working e.g. in the Finnish Transport Safety Agency Trafi and in Aker Yards.
Mr Pentti Kujala Professor of marine traffic and winter navigation safety, Aalto University
Pentti Kujala is a professor of marine traffic and winter navigation safety at the Aalto University, School of Engineering in Finland. He has about 35 years of research experience related to ice-going vessels and structures.
He has been working before e.g. at Lloyd´s Register of Shipping in London, VTT in Finland and Aker Yards in Finland. He got the degree of doctor of technology in Naval Architecture at Helsinki University of Technology on 1994.
The main research interests have been devoted to the analysis of ice-induced loads and their statistical nature on ships and development of innovative structural solutions for various types of ships. Today the main topic is safety of ships both in open water and in ice.
Mr Esko Mustamäki Managing Director, Arctech Helsinki Shipyard Inc.
Education & qualifications:
1975-1984Helsinki University of Technology Master of Science, Engineering, Shipbuilding (Industrial Engineering and Management)
Career summary:
1980 - 1989 Wärtsilä Marine Inc. Project Manager 1990 - 2000 FG-Shipping Oy Ab - Project Manager, New Building - Manager, New Building - Vice President, Development - CEO 2001 – 2000 Finnlines Plc, Vice President, Ship Management 2004 – 2008 Shipping Enterprise Finstaship, CEO 2009 – 2011 SET-Group Ltd. Senior Project Advisor 2011 – Arctech Helsinki Shipyard Inc. Managing Director
Mr Hans Sundqvist Managing Director, Turku Repair Yard Ltd
Graduated in 1976 as a Naval Architect.Between 1976-2000,employed by Finnish Ship Repair Yards where I worked in various positions.Between 2000-2005,I worked for Neste Shipping and between 2006-2007 for the Classification Company Bureau Veritas.Since 2008 Managing Director of Turku Repair Yard Ltd.
Mr Tero Vauraste President, Arctia Shipping Ltd
Education 1991 Naval officer exam Lieutenant 2nd grade 2002 MSc Risk Crisis and Disaster Management Leicester University Career positions
2010 - President and CEO Arctia Shipping ltd 2009 President Finstaship 2007-2009 Managing Director Hertz Finland 2001-2007 Finnair Ground Handling and Northport ltd , Director and managing director of Ground handling 1997-2001 Securitas ltd, HRd manager and branch manager 1991-1996 Finnish Coast Guard Region officer Commanding officer of special unit 1st officer, commanding officer of patrol crafts Training officer
Mr Jarkko Toivola Chief Maritime Specialist and Head of Winter Navigation unit in the Finnish Transport Agency
Captain Jarkko Toivola, born 1959 is presently holding the post of Chief Maritime Specialist and Head of Winter Navigation unit in the Finnish Transport Agency. This is the authority responsible for arranging and directing icebreaking and winter navigation for Finnish ports.
Capt. Toivola has gained his theoretical knowledge from the Åbo Svenska Sjöfartsläroanstalt and participation in domestic and international projects.
Capt. Toivola has sailed on all size vessels year around in the Baltic and international trade, and sailed as a master since 1992. He has also worked worldwide as a trials and training master for azimuth thrust vessels ranging from small tugs and ferries up to Finnish multipurpose ice-breakers.
Mr Hannu Rintamäki Ph.D., Team Leader, Professor Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Oulu, Finland, and Department of Physiology, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
Dr. Hannu Rintamäki is team leader of the Physical work capacity team in the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health and professor (applied physiology) in the University of Oulu, Institute of Biomedicine. His major areas of research are thermophysiology and physiological performance in cold conditions with special interest in convective (wind) and conductive (contact) cooling, fluid balance, survival and rewarming in cold, neuromuscular performance and cold adaptation.
Mr Sami Raappana Manager, Survival Training Unit, Meriturva
Captain / Master mariner Sami Raappana is manager of Survival Training Unit in Finland since January the first in 2006. He has been working mostly on VLCC and DP vessels all over the world. On a shoreside he has been working as a finnish maritime administration’s pilot and harbour master/chief of security at the port of Naantali.
Mr Matti Björkman Captain of the icebreaker / multi support vessel Fennica.
Experience of seafaring over 30 years. Experiences from icebreaking in Baltic Sea and different regions in Arctic sea areas.
Mr Vladimir Kuzmin Admiral Makarov State Maritime Academy, Russia
Mr Kuzmin earned his BSc in Navigation at the Admiral Makarov State Maritime Academy in 1996. He has experience of working aboard merchant ships up to Chief Mate License. Since 2003 he is specializing in simulator-assisted training for ship handling, bridge team management and VTS at Makarov Training Centre. His special interest is ice navigation training. He is one of the organizers of the ice navigation training course at Makarov Training Centre. More recently, he joined the development project for off-shore simulation training including dynamic positioning. He gained accreditation of the Makarov DP training courses by the Nautical Institute (UK). Areas of interests – navigation, astronomy, ice navigation, off-shore training, DP, risk assessment, Bayesian networks, shipping.
Curriculum vitae
- Date of birth 07 October 1971, Saint Petersburg , Russia;
- 1996 -graduation from Admiral Makarov State Maritime Academy (AMSMA);
- 1996-2000 -deck officer on board cargo ships;
- 2000-up to now- Assistant Professor at Navigation Chair of AMSMA
- 2003-up to now- Ship handling simulator-assisted course instructor, Bridge team simulator-assisted course instructor, VTS simulator-assisted course instructor at Makarov Training Centre, Ice Navigation simulator-assisted course instructor
- 2006 – training at Aberdeen College, UK, DP simulation course
- 2006 – up to now – DP instructor at Makarov Training Centre
Mr Anders Backman Fleet Manager, Arctic Operations, Rederi AB TransAtlantic
Previous experience: Baltic Ice-breaking several winters between 1962-1996 as bridge officer and Master on different Swedish icebreakers. Deputy Head of the Swedish Icebreaking Department 1977-1999, except during times for project managements and the command of icebreakers Project and contract manager during design and construction of the "new" Oden, delivered 1988. Master of the Oden during Polar expeditions between 1989 and 1996. Master of the Oden during International Arctic Expedition 1991 when Oden and Polarstern as the first conventional vessels in the world reached the North Pole. Project manager for the ice-breaking component of Tor, Balder and Vidar Viking, combined icebreakers and off-shore vessels. Head of the Swedish Ice-breaking service between 1999 and 2003. Fleet Manager during ACEX 2004 and later multi-vessel operations in the Arctic
Mr Jukka Vasama Manager Naval Architecture, STX Finland Oy
Mr Peter Ivar Sandell Senior Lecturer of Maritime and Commercial Law, Satakunta University of Applied Sciences
Peter Ivar Sandell has graduated from the University of Turku 1994 as Master of Laws(L.L.M) and later as Licenciate in Laws (L.L.Lic) 2002. He has also received Average Adjuster Certificate 1998. Sandell has published several legal articles and case analysis in Scandinavian maritime and legal publications. Peter Ivar Sandell has been trained at Bench in Circuit Court of Turku where he also served as a deputy Circuit Court Judge in criminal and maritime divisions of the court.
From 1997 to 2002 he worked as research fellow of Maritime and Marine Incurance law at the University of Oslo, in Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law. Since 2003 he has been responsible for developing and teaching Master of Maritime Management degree programme at the Satakunta University of Applied Sciences, where he currently holds a position as Senior Lecturer of Maritime and Commercial Law.
Beside his academic career Peter Ivar Sandell serves the maritime industry both as mediator and arbitrator.
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