AECO
Secretariat
- Frigg Jørgensen, Executive Director
- Anders la Cour Vahl, Deputy Director
- André Skrivervik, Director of Administration and Human Resources
- Melissa Nacke, Head of Operations
- Troels Jacobsen, Field Operations Manager
- Aga Nowak, Environmental Specialist
- Maria Florencia Becherini, Office Manager
- Anne Øien, Head of Communications
- Gyða Guðmundsdóttir, Head of Community Engagement
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Committees AND working GROUPS
Executive Committee
- Karin Strand, Hurtigruten Expeditions (chair)
- Alana Bradley-Swan, Adventure Canada (vice chair)
- Maarten van der Duijn Schouten, Cape Race Corporation
- Jennifer Martin, Seabourn
- Peter Garapick, Quark Expeditions
Election Committee
- Tudor Morgan, Hurtigruten (chair)
- Alana Bradley-Swan, Adventure Canada
Bylaws Committee
- Bob Simpson, Silversea Cruises (chair)
- Steve Wellmeier, Poseidon Expeditions (co-chair)
- Annika Rautiola, Ponant
- Peter Garapick, Quark Expeditions
Membership Committee
- Sebastian Charge, Adventure Canada (chair)
- Tudor Morgan, Hurtigruten Expeditions
- Tomas Holik, Aurora Expeditions
- Nikolay Zakharov, Poseidon Expeditions
- Matt Steer, Quark Expeditions
Guidelines Committee
- Adam Turner, Oceanwide Expeditions (chair)
- Kara Weller, Seabourn
- Henrik Törnberg, Polar Quest
- Heike Fries, Hapag Lloyd
- Alastair Newton, Hurtigruten Expeditions
- Daniil Elterman, Silversea Cruises
- Laura Macfarlane, Lindblad Expeditions
- Bella Bakurova, Poseidon Expeditions
- Henry Pall, Quark Expeditions
Marine Committee
- William Bennett, Quark Expeditions (chair)
- Thilo Natke, Hapag-Lloyd Cruises
- Claus Andersen, Hurtigruten Expeditions
- Stanislav Kozhuharov, Silversea Cruises
- Etienne Garcia, Ponant
- Nikolay Zakharov, Poseidon Expeditions
- Patrick Kilbane, Seabourn
- Prash Karnik, Lindblad Expeditions
Compliance and Dispute Resolution Committee
- David Ainsworth, Quark Expeditions (chair)
- Annika Rautiola, Ponant
- Alistair Newton, Hurtigruten Expeditions
- Tomas Holik, Aurora Expeditions
- Bob Simpson, Silverseas
Community Engagement Committee
- Tony Nguyen, Ponant (chair)
- Arne Kertelhein, Hapag Lloyd
- Jennifer Martin, Seabourn
- Laura Macfarlane, Lindblad Expeditions
- Benjamin Bradley, Quark Expeditions
- Karin Strand, Hurtigruten Expeditions
- Justin Poulsen, Silversea Cruises
Yacht Committee
- Arthur Voirin, Polaris Expeditions (chair)
- Maarten van der Dujin Schouten, Cape Race Coorporation
- Christian Engelke, PolarQuest
Communications Working Group
- Danique van Burken, Oceanwide
- Nicolas Singh, Quark Expeditions
- Vladimir Rajevac, Adventure Canada
- Daria Nilsen, Poseidon
Climate change Working Group
- Tudor Morgan, Hurtigruten Expeditions
- Johanna Vakkila, PolarQuest
- Leif Skog, Lindblad Expeditions
- Wassim Daoud, Ponant
- Pamela Le Noury, Noble Caledonia
- Lyndsey Lewis, Quark Expeditions
- Richard del Valle, Silverseas
Clean Seas Working Group
- Delphine Aures, Ponant
- Lyndsey Lewis, Quark Expeditions
- Verena Meraldi, Hurtigruten Expeditions
- Shaun Powell, Seabourn
- Jiajing Yang, Poseidon
- Prash Karnik, Lindblad Expeditions
- Birgit Lutz, Cape Race Coorporation
- Richard del Valle, Silverseas
Cooperation
AECO works with many stakeholders and inter alia have a strong cooperation with:
- IAATO – International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators
- CLIA – Cruise Liners International
- Visit Svalbard
- Visit Greenland
- Cruise Iceland
- North Atlantic Agency
- Governor of Svalbard
- Government of Nunavut
- Arctic Council, PAME – Protection of the Arctic Environment working group
- Arctic Council, EPPR – Emergency Polution Protection Response working group
- Joint Rescue Coordination Center Northern Norway
- Norwegian Coast Guard
- Icelandic Coast Guard
- Joint Arctic Command
- Canadian Coast Guard
- Norwegian Coastal Administration
- Norwegian Polar Institute
- Norwegian Nature Research Institute
- National Canadian Research Institute
- Norwegian Arctic University
- Nord University
- Campus Kujalleq, Greenland
- Greenland National Museum and Archive
Research
AECO has extensive involvement in relevant research projects and citizen science. Learn more here.
