ASSOCIATION

Governance

The Poseidon Principles Association is the governing body of the Poseidon Principles whose object is the management, administration and development of the Poseidon Principles. Signatories to the Poseidon Principles automatically become members of the Poseidon Principles Association.

The Poseidon Principles Association was formed on 18 June 2019 and is governed by a set of Governance Rules which provide guidance to existing and prospective signatories on the processes for the management, administration and development of the Poseidon Principles.

The Steering Committee coordinates the Association and Principles on behalf of its members. The 16 members of the Steering Committee are:

• ABN Amro – Florin Boros, Senior Director, Lending Shipping & Anastassia Tcherneva, Head of Shipping Clients
• BNP Paribas – Vincent Pascal, Head of Shipping & Offshore Finance EMEA and Mathieu Vidal, Vice President, Shipping & Offshore Finance
• Citi – Michael Parker, Chairman, Global Shipping, Logistics & Offshore (Chair) and Alfred Butrous, Director, Shipping Offshore & Logistics
• Crédit Agricole – Thibaud Escoffier, Global Head of Ship Finance and Emilie Sanchez, Structured Finance, Global Shipping Chief Operating Officer
• Credit Suisse (UBS Group)– Joshua Alexander Walter, Key Account Manager
• Danish Ship Finance – Christopher Rex, Head of Sustainability & Pardeep Singh Rana, Senior Analyst
• Development Bank of Japan Inc – Masahiko Azegami, Senior Vice President
• DNB – Christos Tsakonas, Head of Global Shipping and Knut Ola Skotvedt, Senior Vice President, Large Corporates, Ocean Industries
• ING – Stephen Fewster, Managing Director and Global Head of Shipping (Treasurer) and Rajesh Subramanian, Director, Lead Shipping Energy Transition
• KfW IPEX-Bank – Dominik Höhn, Director, Team Head, Execution and Portfolio Management & Sebastian Blum, Global Head Mobility
• Nordea – Thor-Erik Bech, Head of International Shipping & Offshore and Geir Atle Lerkerød, Head of Nordic Shipping
• SEB – Chris Fasseland, Client Executive and Per Olav Bucher-Johannessen, Head of Shipping
• SMBC Bank –Guillaume Dufour, Managing Director & Head of Marine Finance and Sabrina Han, Director, Transportation Finance
• Société Générale – Paul Taylor, Global Head of Maritime Industries (Vice Chair) and Benoit Micaelli, Shipping Structured Finance
• Standard Chartered – Heng Chih Chwen, Director, Shipping Finance & Amy Chua, Director, Environmental and Social Risk Management 
• SuMiTrust Bank – Masaya Noda, Head of Shipping and Kentaro Shoda, Manager, Corporate Business Planning Department

The Governance Rules detail the scope of the roles of the Steering Committee and Chair and how representatives are nominated and appointed.

Secretariat maintains the day-to-day functions of the Association and is the first point of contact for existing and prospective signatories. The Secretariat is provided by the Global Maritime Forum through a service agreement.

The technical expertise needed for the Principles to remain updated and accurate is provided by Rocky Mountain Institute and UMAS and may include other organizations in the future as and when needed.