Edward (Ted) has been a Member of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers since 1974, and a Fellow since 1993. He has been actively employed in the agency sector since starting his shipping career in 1960 as a Clerk at the Port of Bristol Authority, moving through the ranks to director level at shipping and forwarding agents. Ted is currently a Member of the Bristol Steamship Owners’ Association, a Representative of the Bridgwater, Bristol and Gloucester Chamber of Shipping, a Trustee of the Gloucester Harbour Trustees, and sits on the Bristol Port Welfare Committee of the Merchant Navy Welfare Board. In recognition of his voluntary duties over the years, Ted was invited to the Queen’s Garden Party in 1988.
Don Ravindra Lal Galhena FICS
Ravindra Galhena, is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers and the
Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport. He also holds a PG Diploma in
Port and Shipping Administration and an MSc in International Trade and
Transport.
Ravindra is a writer/analyst for Containerisation International magazine and a
tutor for the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers. Presently, he is reading for
a doctoral degree at Loughborough University in Maritime Logistics.
Ravindra is also the author of the UNCTAD monograph entitled: Container Terminal Development and Management: The Sri Lanka Experience (1980-2002).
Alan Humphries FICS
Alan has worked in the shipping industry since 1959; becoming an Associate of
the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers (later change to Member) in 1962, and
later promoted to Fellow.
His career has encompassed all disciplines with the exception of Sale and
Purchase and Tanker Chartering. The port from which his company operated closed in 1989 and Alan became semi-retired, working as a Regional Controller for Collection of TH Light Dues. At the same time he became a tutor; and has been part of the Prep team for the last few years.
Apart from his tutoring, Alan is now ‘retired’ which he hopes should leave him time to indulge in his recreational activities of reading, listening to music, gardening, sailing and photography.
Bill Simper FICS
Elected a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers in 1979, Mr Simper
began his career at Stephenson Clark Shipping Limited in 1970 and moved to Bell Line Container Service in 1971. He worked for BRS in King’s Lynn in 1972 importing steel into the UK and then in 1973 moved to Athel Line Ltd working in ship management for owned and time chartered tonnage. Mr Simper moved to Sugar Line Limited in 1974 then to United Molasses Trading Company in 1975 where he became Technical Manager responsible for operation of their entire fleet, their laboratory and sample analysis. A director of Global Marine Surveying Limited from 2000 with responsibility for maintaining chandlery services operation Mr Simper was elected as a course tutor for the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers in 2004.
Jae Sundaram FICS
Jae Sundaram is a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales and also a dual qualified lawyer. After a number of years of practice, he has moved to academics and currently works for the University of Buckingham where he teaches Maritime Law, International Trade Law and Commercial Conflict of Laws in the LLM Programme, besides teaching other core legal subjects in the under graduate programmes.
Jae is also the Director of LLM Programmes and LLM Admissions Tutor at the University of Buckingham.
Graeme Nimmo
Graeme has over 27 years experience in the shipping and transport industry. Through professional examination, Graeme qualified as a member (MICS) with the ICS in 1991 and was promoted to Chartered Shipbroker status (FICS) in 1993.
During his involvement with the Institute, Graeme has served on the Scottish Branch Committee as Education Officer and, since 1991, has tutored students world-wide in Shipping Business.
Since 1993, Graeme held senior management positions in both Dundee and Tilbury and, from 2000 – 2007, held the position as Main Board Director for one of Dundee’s oldest established companies, The Dundee, Perth & London Shipping Company Limited.
In addition to Fellowship of the ICS, Graeme is also a member of the International Forest Products Transport Association, the Institute of Directors and, though professional examination, holds an IoD Diploma in Company Direction.
Fiona Palmer
Fiona Palmer (FICS) joined BP Shipping in 1984. Moving with the shipping company to London, Fiona moved on to being a tanker operator and then an LPG Charterer, while undertaking her studies with the ICS. A move into chemical parcel chartering saw Fiona benefiting from onsite learning about the upstream business of oil refining and its products.
In 1998, Fiona joined James Fisher Tankships as chartering manager for their fleet of 25 product tankers in 1998.
In 2001 Fiona become a mother prompting a change into tutoring for ICS on four subjects on the syllabus, assisting at PREP, and presenting shipping workshops.
Fiona has since joined Drewry Ship Consultants as an analyst, research consultant on various publications.
Thomas is the son of a retired United States Army officer and an English riding instructor. He has travelled extensively and been exposed to people from different cultures, happily mixing with people from all walks of life. He has experience teaching students from all over the world in Britain, the U.S.A. and the Czech Republic.
For the last five years Thomas has taught students from beginner to advanced levels at Georgetown, George Mason and Marymount Universites, in the Washington D.C. area.
He has reviewed books for Houghton and Mifflin and given presentations at WATESOL (Washington Area Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) conferences.
Thomas has an MA in Philosophy from the University of St. Andrews and received his teacher training from St. Giles College Brighton. His interests in the field include creative writing and the use of art and video to stimulate memorable language practice. Thomas speaks Czech and is a member of the local Sokol. His hobbies include writing short stories, playing the harmonica and rugby. He has recently become addicted to chess.
