Board Members
The NGO Shipbreaking Platform’s board members are international experts in a wide range of sectors related to maritime policies, waste management, environmental law and occupational health. Their experience and know-how contribute immensely to the Platform’s activities and successes.
Ritwick Dutta is an environmental lawyer who has practiced in the Supreme Court of India since 2001. He has worked on environmental issues for over a decade, with a focus on forest and wildlife issues. Ritwick coordinates Lawyers Initiative for Forest and Environment (LIFE), a dedicated team of four full time environmental lawyers. LIFE supports grassroots groups across India by helping bring environmental cases to court.
Marietta Harjono is a senior campaigner in Greenpeace Netherlands and has been working on the shipbreaking issue since 1998. She now also coordinates Greenpeace’s work on the Probo Koala/Trafigura case. Greenpeace International>>
Rizwana Hasan is an advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and Programs Director of Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA). She has filed and advocated for the rights and interests of the landless, fishermen, farmers, and other affected communities in cases involving encroachment on public property; air, water, and soil pollution; compensation for land expropriation and other disruptive development initiatives. She also received the United Nations Environment Programme’s Global 500 award for BELA’s outstanding work.
Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association>>
Merijn Hougee is project leader of Clean Shipping at the North Sea Foundation where he works on a market-oriented approach to create sustainability in the maritime sector. Since 2008, he also works for the ProSea Foundation as a course leader, delivering sustainability training courses to naval cadets in the Netherlands.
North Sea Foundation>>
Helen Périvier has over 15 years of experience in environmental advocacy on issues relating to toxics, oceans and most recently energy efficiency. In addition, she is qualified as a navigation officer (1600 gross tonnes) and has ten years on ships serving as a maritime professional on environmental research, advocacy and education tours. She led the Greenpeace campaign on the European REACH chemicals legislation. In 2007, she also led a Greenpeace rapid response action on the M.V. Probo Koala, the ship responsible for illegal dumping of toxic waste and resulting medical emergency in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire.
Greenpeace International>>
Jim Puckett has been an environmental health and justice activist for 22 years. In the past he served as Greenpeace International’s Toxics Director and before that, as co-coordinator of Greenpeace’s Toxic Trade campaign, both posts being based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Greenpeace Toxic Trade Campaign was instrumental in achieving the Basel Ban as well as numerous regional waste trade bans. In 1997 he left Greenpeace to return to Seattle to help found Earth Economics and the Basel Action Network program. He has represented civil society within the Basel Convention since its inception in 1989 and has traveled extensively researching, writing, producing films and campaigning against all forms of toxic trade.
Basel Action Network>>
Svend Søyland holds a Master of Arts in criminology, where his focus was environmental crime. Prior to joining Bellona, he worked for the United Nations and the Norwegian Ministry of the Environment, and was a lecturer at the University of Hong Kong. Svend headed Bellona USA in Washington from 2005 to 2008, and is presently working at Bellona’s Oslo office – focusing on international climate negotiations.
Bellona>>
