RASMUS
NORDQVIST

Rasmus Nordqvist was elected to the European Parliament in 2024, representing Denmark’s Green Left in the Greens/EFA group. Rasmus is an active member of the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) and Budgetary Control (CONT) as well as a substitute in the Committee on Fisheries (PECH) and Budgets (BUDG). He is also an elected committee member of the European Green Party. Before joining the European Parliament, he was a Member of the Danish Parliament from 2015 to 2022 and previously worked as a fashion designer.

DANIELA
KÖSTER

As manager of the German ZIM-Innovation network ShipRec (Officially funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy), Daniela is responsible for the innovation development and collaboration of industry and research institutes within the maritime industry at EurA AG. Focus of Danielas work is the integration of sustainable, digital and automation solutions into an economical way of ship recycling in Germany. The active involvement of the German authorities in the discussion of the network facilitates the way for innovation and supports the German way of ship recycling in a competitive international market and strengthen the European industrial resilience.

EMILIE
ESPANET

MARTIN
VERBOOM

As a dedicated member of Damen’s Research, Development & Innovation team, Martin Verboom brings a strong focus on integrating circularity and material optimization into ship design. He is actively involved in the CirclesOfLife project, co-leading WP4, which pioneers the Ship Lifecycle Passport (SLP) and Ship Circular Materials Passport (SCMP) initiatives. Martin’s work supports the adoption of innovative passport standards and regulations, such as ISO-59000 series, the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), and Digital Product Passport (DPP), driving the maritime sector toward more sustainable and accountable practices.

PING
TEO

Ping is the Decommissioning Manager at IOGP since March 2021. In her current role, she manages the activities of the IOGP global decommissioning committee and represents IOGP at various regulatory forums. Originally from Brunei, Ping is a project manager with 15years career with Shell prior to IOGP and has experience leading studies and execution of major greenfield, brownfield and decommissioning projects in Brunei and New Zealand.

HUGO
DE STOOP

Hugo holds a Master in Engineering (ULB), an MBA (INSEAD) and a Certificate in Corporate venture and Innovation (INSEAD). He was the CEO of Euronav from 2019 until 2023, the leading crude oil tanker shipping company that he joined in 2004 and where he held various positions including CFO between 2008 and 2019. He started his career with Mustad Intl Group, where he worked as a Project Manager on various assignment in the U.S., EU and LatAm. He founded First Tuesday in America, the world’s largest meeting place for high tech entrepreneurs, venture capitalists & companies. He then joined Davos Financial Corp. London, an external fund manager of UBS Group where he became an Associate and later a Vice President. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Marine Metals.

JOHN
JACOBSEN

John is one of the founders and CEO of Nordic Circles, a company that upcycles steel from ships and oil rigs into building products. Through their unique process they deliver building products with almost zero Co2 emissions. They designed and produced the first upcycled fish hotel which was acclaimed world-changing idea by FastCompany in 2021.

DOUWE
AMELS

Douwe has maritime blood running through his veins as a member of the Amels family with a shipbuilder as a grandfather and a maritime entrepreneur as a father. For a while he even was a Marine Technology student himself. He ended up taking a slightly different route though, earning his Master of Law degree in business law. He is now Business Developer on Sustainable Shipping at TNO, an independent, not-for-profit research organisation based in the Netherlands.

ROSANNE VAN
HOUWELINGEN

Rosanne is Innovation Project Manager at Maritime & Offshore NL, which is the trade association for the Dutch maritime and offshore industry. She advances circularity and sustainability in maritime and offshore sectors by strengthening EU shipbuilding through partnerships, innovation management, training development, and clear communication among industry, research, and policy stakeholders.

RENAUD
GAUDEL

As a Research Engineer within Damen’s Research, Development & Innovation department, Renaud focuses on translating circular economy principles into practical, measurable solutions for ship design. With a strong engineering background in structural analysis and acoustics, he now leads and coordinates research on circular vessel interiors, bridging technical performance, material choices, and lifecycle thinking. Renaud is the project manager of the Circular Crew Cabin DAMEN research initiative and a key contributor to the Circles Of Life project, where he works on the development and validation of the circularity aspects within Ship Circular Material Passport (SCMP) and Ship Lifecycle Passport (SLP) frameworks. His work emphasizes system-level circularity assessment, design-for-disassembly, and the integration of material and component data into passport-based approaches aligned with emerging regulations such as ESPR and Digital Product Passports (DPP), supporting Damen’s transition toward scalable and realistic circular shipbuilding.

AURORA
ROSSI

Aurora is a Policy adviser at industriAll Europe, the European trade union federation representing workers in manufacturing, mining, and energy sectors. I work on international trade, industrial policies, with a particular focus on workers right. I am responsible for the shipbuilding and maritime equipment sector including dealing with the European Social Dialogue for the sector.

ISABELLE
RADOVAN

Isabelle is a Policy Advisor at Recycling Europe, where she focuses on metal recycling and leads the organisation’s ship recycling working group. She previously gained experience in circular economy policy through traineeships at the European Commission and the European Parliament. Isabelle holds a master’s degree in European Affairs from Sciences Po Lille and the University of Münster.

JOHANNES
THRANE

Johannes has worked within the North Sea decommissioning industry since the start of his AF-Gruppen career in 2004, most recently working in the role of Chief Sustainability & Communications Officer and Head of Special Projects for AF Offshore Decom. During his career Johannes has been instrumental in the successful execution of several major EPRD projects working in a variety of roles including Offshore Construction Manager, Project Manager, Project Director and VP Commercial. Johannes has a Master of Science degree from the Norwegian University of Science & Technology and has attended INSEAD’s Management Acceleration Programme.

HELEN
PERIVIER

Helen is a qualified navigation officer and has ten years of experience serving on ships as a maritime professional and in environmental research, advocacy and education tours. She successfully led the Greenpeace campaign on the European REACH chemicals legislation and has been working on the shipbreaking issue for more than a decade. Helen has a deep understanding of campaigning on environmental issues at both the international and the European level. She holds a M.Sc. in Integrated Coastal Ecosystem Science, Policy & Management from the University of New Hampshire and a ALM in Sustainability & Environmental Management from the Harvard Extension School. Helen is one of the five founding members of the Platform.

BERT
VAN GRIEKEN

Bert is the commercial director of Sea2Cradle.Through his involvement in a large range of projects for various owners, finding and managing the best solution for responsible recycling of their end-of- life-assets, Bert has gained in-depth knowledge of all aspects of ship and offshore recycling.He holds a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology and has been working in the maritime and shipping sector since 1995.During over 20 years in container shipping he held various commercial positions for Nedlloyd, P&O Nedlloyd and Maersk in the Netherlands and abroad, after which he moved to inland container barging, developing solutions for zero-emission transportation, before joining Sea2Cradle in 2021.

INGVILD
JENSSEN

Ingvild has been the NGO Shipbreaking Platform’s spokesperson and represented the coalition in negotiations and advocacy work at the United Nations and European level since the inception of the organisation in 2005. She holds a MSc in Political Science from the University of Oslo with social anthropology and international law as minors. Prior to joining the Platform, Ingvild was part of ARENA, a leading research program on European policies, where she contributed to the CIDEL project and held courses in political theory for graduate students.