Culture and Governance

Bookda GHEISAR

First Senior Director for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

PORT OF SEATTLE

Christophe HUSSER

Directeur Général Adjoint - Département Espaces publics et Aménagement urbain

VILLE DU HAVRE

Irina GORBATIKOVA BONDARENKO

Director of Administrative Department

FREEPORT OF RIGA AUTHORITY

I hold a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Philology and Literature  by Latvian State University; and M.D. in Translation & Interpretation, Faculty of Humanities, by University of Vigo, Spain;
Since 1998 I have been working  for the Freeport of Riga Authority in the same position as today being responsible for maintaining and fostering corporate long term relationships with  international governmental state and municipal entities, port of Riga sister ports,  international port organizations, foreign embassies located in Latvia.
I am also in charge of receiving foreign business commercial delegations and port trade promoting and cultural events organization;
I serve for many years as :
Alternative Director for Latvia in International Association of Ports and harbours (IAPH);
Member of General Assembly for Latvia in European Sea Ports Organization (ESPO);
Representative for Latvia in International Association of Ports Cities (AIVP)

Florian WEYER

Directeur Général Délégué du Grand Port Fluvio-Maritime de l'Axe Seine

HAROPA PORT DU HAVRE

Ronnie YAMBAO

Senior Deputy Administrator

SUBIC BAY METROPOLITAN AUTHORITY

Mr Ronnie R. Yambao, Senior Deputy Administrator for Operations Group of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority leads the operations management of the Subic Bay International Airport and the Port of Subic Bay. 

He joined the SBMA in 1998 as an Investment Specialist.  As Manager of SBMA Investment Department from 2006 to 2016 and OIC of the Office of the Deputy Administrator for Business Group from 2011 to 2016, he managed an account portfolio of over $5 Billion worth of investments in the sectors of shipbuilding, manufacturing, renewable energy, power, logistics, maritime, industrial park development, and shipping industries.

He is a graduate of BSC Management from San Beda College in 1994 and finished his MBA at the Ateneo De Manila Regis Program in 2006.  He was a recipient of the Carl Duisberg Scholarship Program in 2002 and finished a course in Investment Promotion and International Management in Germany. He also completed a course in Strategic Port Management in Tokyo and Yokohama, Japan under the Japan International Cooperation Agency Scholarship Program in 2019.

Moderator

Hilda GHIARA

Tenured Researcher and Professor in Maritime Traffic, Ports and Regional Economies

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI GENOVA

Hilda Ghiara, is Aggregate Professor and Tenured Researcher in Applied Economics, DIEC (Department of Economics, - University of Genoa Italy and member of the scientific board of the Italian Centre of Excellence for Integrated Logistics (CIELI). Responsible of a full module (Department of Economics), University of Genoa (Maritime and Port Economics). Author, co-author or editor of several scientific international publications, she is regularly a speaker/session chairman at scientific and professional conferences. She is Project manager of international research programs financed by the European Union and other private and public institutions. Since 2009 she has been a main promoter and project manager of the project Genoa Port Center (Port of Genoa Exhibition & Education Center), an initiative aiming to advance port communication and port knowledge exchange. The project won in 2009 a Special mention for ESPO award and in 2012 the Port of Genoa who has been chosen to receive the ESPO Award for societal integration dedicated in 2012 to the theme of Youth.