Bringing together leading international underwriters, claims adjusters, insureds, brokers and other service providers involved in claims arising from activities which are commonly referred to as offshore energy risks (which extend to related onshore activities and include well and drilling operations irrespective of location) this 3-day event includes presentations, activities and networking. The Conference is a non-commercial undertaking organised by a Committee drawn from professionals with extensive experience of energy claims.
Since its modest beginning in 1996 as a forum for informal discussions between leading energy insurers and their loss adjusters, the annual Lillehammer Energy Claims Conference has grown to encompass representatives from global oil & gas companies, claims brokers and certain specialist service providers.
The conference is the leading international gathering of underwriters, claims adjusters, insureds, brokers and other service providers involved in claims arising from activities which are commonly referred to as offshore energy risks (which extend to related onshore activities and include well and drilling operations irrespective of location).
For over five years the conference has attracted capacity attendances - some 345 delegates in 2015 for the 20th Anniversary Conference. In recent years participants from America, Angola, Australia, Bermuda, Canada, Denmark, Dubai, France, Germany, Indonesia, Jordan, Malaysia, Mexico, Monaco, The Netherlands, Norway, Qatar, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, the U.K., Venezuela, Vietnam and elsewhere, have clearly justify the conference’s claim to be the premier international energy claims forum.
Attendance at the Conference is, in general, restricted to representatives of underwriters, claims adjusters, insureds, claims brokers and other service providers directly involved in claims arising from offshore energy risks.
The Conference is not open to members of the legal professions although the Committee will usually issue a very limited number of specific invitations to lawyers closely involved with subjects under discussion. To encourage an atmosphere of open debate and participation, opinions expressed at the event are considered personal to the speakers and members of the media are excluded.
Delegates are always encouraged though Q&A and commentary sessions to play an active part in the Conferences’ interactive programmes.
Joao has been working in the insurance market since 2012, initially as a Risk Engineer and later as a specialist broker for renewable energy projects, with now more than 6 years exclusively dedicated to onshore and offshore renewable energy. In addition to his experience as an insurance broker, Joao was also one of the insurance managers for a leading renewable energy company in Europe and North America.
Joao’s experience includes the management and oversight of all phases of an offshore wind project, including early advice and budgeting, preliminary design, contractual risk allocation, and finally the risk transfer modelling and execution. Working on debt-financed and equity-financed deals, Joao has been directly involved in the different phases of offshore wind projects in Europe, Asia and US, including fixed bottom and floating foundations.
Director of Lloyd Warwick International. Paul specialised in special risks and the adjustment of business interruption related losses. Paul’s areas of expertise are on loss of income in the oil and gas production and refinery, power generation, financial institutions, marine and ports sectors as well as special risks including cyber losses.
Paul graduated university with a Bachelor of Accounting Science (Honours) degree, he is a qualified chartered accountant registered both in England and Wales and South Africa and holds an Advanced Diploma in Insurance. Paul has extensive experience in business interruption, delay in start-up and trade disruption claims as well as special investigations. He develops advanced claim and scenario modelling tools which are used to assist in complex claims or financial investigations.
Steve has 47 years’ experience handling Energy claims in the London and International marketplaces.
He is Chairman of Energy & Power Claims at Marsh Specialty, based in London. In this role, he focuses on obtaining best results for his clients, advocating and seeking solutions on their behalf, whilst at the same time working closely with his colleagues in the Team, ensuring best practice and best-in-class claims service.
Steve has been involved in a broad spectrum of insurance events, ranging from the ‘Deepwater Horizon’ catastrophe, to Silicon breast implant litigation, often advising his clients on strategy, and assisting in complex settlement negotiations with (re)insurers and their experts.
James is a Director with Charles Taylor Adjusting in its Natural Resources (formerly Energy) claim division where he has worked on a large number of high-profile upstream construction and operational energy claims.
James began his career working with the Wood Group where he spent 10 years on the design and construction of oil and gas production facilities around the world. Notably, he has worked on the construction of several high-profile Gulf of Mexico and North Sea production platforms for the oil majors. James has significant experience working with offshore contractors from both an EPC contractor and loss adjuster perspective.
James has a degree in Mechanical Engineering and is a Chartered Engineer with the Institute of Mechanical Engineering (IMechE).
Henry is Marsh JLT’s principal contact for all US & Scandinavian losses into London, in addition to providing assistance across the rest of the world.
Having joined JLT after graduating in Naval Architecture & Offshore Engineering at Newcastle University, Henry began his tenure working on energy & marine claims. From 2015, Henry focussed exclusively on energy claims where he was primarily responsible for claims emanating from Asia & Middle East.
Henry joined JLT in 2014, returning in 2018 after working for AIG Europe as Energy Claims Adjuster, where he adjusted both Up & Downstream losses.
Rosalia started her insurance career in 2003 at Xchanging Claims Services, dealing with Offshore Claims. In 2007 she joined Marsh as a Client Executive, being the client focal point for major Oil and Gas clients and participating in tenders, programme structure, marketing and day to servicing. During this time Rosalia was seconded twice to the organisation of Maersk Oil and Gas in Copenhagen, assisting with insurance and claims management.
In 2012, Rosalia joined DONG Energy as Risk Manager, in charge of risk and insurance for DONG E&P/INEOS Oil & Gas for all operational and construction activities in Denmark, Norway and the UK. Her responsibilities included insurance and claims management, contract risk management in respect of liability, indemnity and insurance, commercial agreements, partner relations and stakeholder management (Insurers, Brokers, Loss Adjusters, Government Entities, Lawyers).
Rosalia recently moved to Cubico Sustainable Investments as Global Risk & Insurance Manager, responsible for Cubico’s worldwide assets.
She holds a Masters in International Logistics.
With twenty five years of journalism under his belt, Ryan Chilcote has been an eyewitness of many of the biggest stories of our time.
Chilcote cut his teeth as a CNN international correspondent based in Moscow where he began his career in 1995.
In 2007, he joined Bloomberg TV as presenter and a business correspondent and moved to London. Since 2017, Chilcote has been a PBS Newshour Special Correspondent.
With a background in general and financial news, Chilcote is as at home interviewing world leaders at the world economic forum as he is reporting from the world's front lines.
Ryan has an Emmy nomination for best story in a regularly scheduled newscast. He has also received a New York Film Festival world medal, a Clarion award, and a nomination at the Prix Bayeux competition for war correspondents.
Ryan Chilcote hosts, moderates and speaks at the world’s leading business conferences throughout Europe, North America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Whether it’s the World Economic Forum or a gathering of the c-suite, Chilcote delivers thoughtful and provocative discussions.
25 years of covering the world means Chilcote is comfortable with any topic. Over the past decade, Ryan has led conversations and events on investment, financial services, energy, the future of work and industry 4.0, technology, innovation, cybersecurity and geopolitics.
Franco's experience encompasses court litigation in England and Wales and in foreign jurisdictions as well as in international arbitration.
His insurance practice sees him acting regularly for insurers in the London market and across various international insurance markets. His primary business-line focus includes energy (upstream, downstream and renewables) and most marine classes (predominantly hull and war). Franco also has considerable reinsurance and professional negligence disputes experience, encompassing both coverage and liability work.
Franco's commercial dispute resolution experience includes successfully handling power, EPC, shipping and agency agreement disputes as well as general commercial contract disputes.
In non-contentious matters, Franco has significant experience of insurance and commercial contract drafting. He has been involved in a number of recent insurance wordings reviews in the energy and marine insurance markets.
Following graduation in 2013, Emma worked as an engineer specialising in the engineering and design of mooring systems for FPSO’s. In 2014, Emma transitioned into Energy Loss Adjusting and has gained experience working on a variety of energy losses throughout Europe, Africa, North America, South America, and Australia. Since joining Lloyd Warwick in 2018, Emma has worked on a number of significant renewable energy losses including offshore and onshore wind, and solar. In addition, Emma continues to work on a variety of Upstream and Downstream property damage and liability claims including Submarine Power Cables, Offshore Platforms, Rotating Machinery and Onshore Pipelines. Some notable recent assignments include:
Corey is a Partner in Clyde & Co’s New York office. He advises insurers on complex energy and marine matters, and has extensive experience acting for insurers on coverage issues relating to onshore wind and solar construction and operational losses. Corey also has significant experience handling complex energy and marine insurance disputes in litigation and arbitration relating to property damage, business interruption and pollution. In addition, Corey's advice is often sought by U.S. and foreign insurers in non-contentious matters, including advice on policy wordings
Corey is the Co-Leader of Clyde & Co’s US Aviation, Marine & Energy Practice Group, and is recognized by The Legal 500 US as a Next Generation Partner.
During Gary’s almost 16 years within Upstream Energy he has been promoted through the ranks from assistant to senior underwriter. Gary evaluates all types of risk placed in the global Upstream market, including bespoke insurance placements for complex multi-national companies.
Jake graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Geology from Royal Holloway University of London in 2012, following which he gained experience in the oilfield working as a mudlogger with Baker Hughes in the UK sector of the North Sea. During this time he worked on jack-up and semi-submersible drilling rigs for various Operators, where his responsibilities included well control monitoring duties, engineering and drilling data analysis, and geological and hydrocarbon evaluation.
In 2014 he started his career in the London market as an energy loss adjuster with Matthews Daniel, where he has worked on a portfolio of upstream insurance claims around the world. He has recently been working on several control of well and loss of production income claims for oil majors in the North Sea.
His experience covers E&P operations, construction projects, LOPI and control of well / pollution. Kit also leads the sustainable energy claims practice at INDECS.
Kit works with clients to identify potential issues early and believes that adopting a transparent and pragmatic approach is key to achieving resolution on the claims he advises on.
In addition to his claims practice, Kit provides training to clients on risk allocation through contract and the management of contractual claims.
When away from insurance Kit’s current area of focus is trying to convince his young children that there is more to a National Trust property than the playground and café. He has had limited success so far.
Kit has a degree in Biomedical Chemistry from Warwick university.
Charles holds an Honours degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Adelaide (Australia), retains professional Chartered status with the Institution of Chemical Engineers and is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) with the Engineering Council.
Charles has over 13 years’ process engineering experience in the upstream oil and gas industry, spanning all phases of project development, along with operations, for both onshore and offshore upstream developments including Gas to Liquids (GTL) and LNG production. This included time spent in London working for Genesis, and 7 years in Norway in support of a world-scale offshore field redevelopment project. Charles joined AqualisBraemar LOC in Singapore in 2014 and has managed a variety of complex Energy, Petrochem and Power claims in the APAC and MENA regions, including business interruption considerations, on behalf of (Re)Insurers. Charles moved to Houston, USA, in January 2020, assuming the role of Managing Director – Adjusting for the Americas.
In July 2021 he assumed the concurrent role of Managing Director for Adjusting, serving as the global functional head for the business line.
Gareth Horne is a Partner at Clyde & Co, admitted in Australia and New Zealand, and operating out of the Sydney office. He specialises in first party property, energy and business interruption insurance, reinsurance and general commercial litigation. He regularly advises insurers in APAC, Europe and London on ISR, energy, contract works and both facultative and treaty reinsurance claims. In particular, he has acted in claims arising from major regional events including the New Zealand earthquakes. catastrophic windstorms and bushfires, as well as gas pipeline, solar and wind energy claims in Australia. Gareth has recently spearheaded the Australian insurance industry’s response to COVID-19 business interruption claims, and acted for the Insurance Council of Australia and various insurers in the two business interruption test cases, as well as a number of class actions currently before the courts.
Prior to joining MatthewsDaniel, Tom had graduated with an LLB (Hons) in Law and a BSc (Hons) in Exploration and Resource Geology. His early career was in the offshore oil and gas industry working as a Data Engineer for Baker Hughes in the North Sea, where he was responsible for the monitoring and interpretation of well conditions, drilling and engineering parameters, the evaluation of geological and hydrocarbon samples and data acquisition. During his time offshore Tom worked on numerous platforms, jack-ups and semi-submersibles around the North Sea but predominantly in the complex, deepwater oil and gas fields west of the Shetland Isles in the North Atlantic. Tom also has experience within the mining industry, working at the Kinsevere copper mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo as an Exploration Geologist.
William is an international dispute resolution lawyer with experience of handling high-value commercial disputes and complex insurance claims. His experience includes the management of all stages of the pre-action and litigation process, as well as mediation and other forms of ADR.
He advises Singapore and London market insurers in relation to coverage issues, often arising from marine and energy-related losses. In a non-insurance context, William has also assisted clients with disputes concerning a range of commercial issues
Atussa Koushan is a software engineer in Cognite where she has been working for the past one and a half years after finishing her masters degree in Cybernetics and Robotics at NTNU.
She is working in the disruptive MVP team in Cognite, constantly exploring new technology and solutions for the industry. This includes a lot of work with robotics and AI, and she is currently leading the development of computer vision solutions for robotics.
Debbie is a Legal Director in Kennedys’ London office and has over 10 years’ experience providing coverage/disputes advice to her insurance clients, as well as providing advice on policy wordings. She specialises in marine, offshore and onshore energy, political violence/terrorism, trade credit and political risk matters. Her clients include London market and global insurers, reinsurers and Lloyd’s syndicates. Debbie regularly deals with and monitors correspondent lawyers in relation to claims arising in other jurisdictions, as well as having conduct of litigation in the English High Court. Debbie has completed two secondments in Lloyd’s syndicates, spending time in their claims/in-house legal teams, thus having practical experience of handling claims.
Mark graduated from the University of Dundee in 2003 with a Master’s degree in Electronic Engineering. He worked as a Research Engineer prior to entering the Oil & Gas industry in 2005. Mark worked as a Measurement / Logging While Drilling (M/LWD) engineer for a service company. During his time in the industry, he worked on many jack-up and semi-submersible drilling rigs throughout the Dutch and UK sectors of the North Sea, as well as onshore Italy, the Netherlands and the UK. He has experience of drilling conventional oil and gas wells, High Pressure High Temperature (HPHT) wells and geothermal wells.
In 2009, Mark began his loss adjusting career in London. Given his background and in-depth knowledge of drilling operations, he mainly focused on the handling of well control claims, both offshore and onshore on a worldwide basis. He also gained knowledge of the London insurance market and of Policy Wordings associated with Control of Well and other Upstream Energy risks (PD, CAR, BI/LOPI, TPL).
In 2012, Mark moved to Singapore where he handled numerous well control claims. In addition to well control claims, Mark worked on many Upstream Energy claims across the Asia-Pacific region.
In early 2018, Mark returned to London where he continued to handle a variety of Upstream Energy claims in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
Jan-Hugo, born 1959, grew up in a family of fishermen and seafarers in the Norwegian Arctic, just north of the 70° parallel, north of the town of Tromsoe. After junior college and military service Jan-Hugo started his insurance career as a marine underwriter in October 1979. He moved to offshore energy claims in February 1986, all the time with Gard and its predecessors. He graduated from the Norwegian Shipping Academy (Marine Insurance Candidate) in 1986 and became a Chartered Insurer and Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute, London, in 1991. He is the founder of the Lillehammer Energy Claims Conference (1996) and has been chairing its organising committee for all conferences except one. Jan-Hugo was a member of the Offshore Energy Committee of the International Union of Marine Insurers (IUMI) from 2008 to 2018 and was elected as a Vice Chairman on the IUMI Executive Committee from 2018. He has served as a board member of CEFOR - The Nordic Association of Marine Insurers from 2011 to 2014. Jan-Hugo is a Vice President and the Head of Offshore Energy Claims at Gard.
Patrick is a claims consultant and advises clients on both onshore and offshore claims.
Since joining INDECS in 2016, Patrick has been involved in the handling and management of some of the largest and most complex offshore construction claims in Australia, Indonesia, South Korea, Egypt, Qatar and Norway, as well as a number of onshore PD/BI and DSU claims. He has Masters degrees in both Mechanical and Petroleum Engineering, field experience in Quality Control in the Australian construction industry, and is ACII qualified.
Patrick understands the issues involved in the handling of complex claims and recognises the value in clear and transparent communication and claim presentation with insurers and loss adjusters to efficiently resolve insurance claims.
Sarah advises clients on the biggest and most complex insurance matters with a focus on construction, business interruption, credit and political risk and warranty and indemnity insurance claims. She is also well known for her work advising professionals in relation to negligence claims arising from these practice areas.
Sarah was one of the lead partners in the successful test case brought by the FCA and decided in the Supreme Court in 2021 concerning COVID-19 business interruption claims. She continues to assist clients with all types of claim arising from the pandemic. Many of her construction cases are technically complex, and she routinely advises on claims concerning the range of DE and LEG clauses in construction policies. She has also acted in many claims concerning political risk, such as expropriation and selective discrimination, and advises on claims and wordings in relation to credit risk policies. Warranty and indemnity insurance claims and tax liability claims also form an increasing part of her practice and she has excellent cross-over expertise into M&A work.
She also has experience in relation to D&O (including in relation to class actions) and public liability, professional liability and property policies. Clients also call on her expertise in relation to non-contentious aspects of insurance, including risk allocation under contracts, M&A insurance issues and policy wordings.
Sarah is recognised as an Acritas Star and features in the Legal 500, Chambers UK and Who's Who. Legal 500 UK says Sarah "has shown unmatched levels of responsiveness and depth of thinking." She is a ranked lawyer in Chambers UK 2021 for Insurance Litigation for Policyholders where she is described as “absolutely brilliant and fantastic on insurance issues in particular.” Who's Who (professional negligence) 2020 says Sarah is a “first-choice adviser in professional negligence” and is “thoughtful, technically excellent and strategically savvy”.
Kayne Sheppard is an underwriter working within the Energy Casualty team for Zurich Commercial Insurance in London. He started his career on the Lloyd’s graduate scheme in 2013 before moving to United Insurance Brokers in 2015 to take a Casualty broking role. In 2017, Kayne moved to Zurich’s Dubai office to become a Casualty underwriter before moving back to London in 2019 to specialise in Energy Casualty business. Kayne works with customers around the world, throughout the energy value chain, to provide bespoke Casualty insurance placements, and is also working to develop Zurich’s understanding of the risks and opportunities the energy transition presents to customers and the wider industry.
Darrell started his insurance career in 2001 at the old LPSO before transitioning to Xchanging. During his bureau career Darrell dealt with claims across the Property, Construction and Energy sectors, ranging from Offshore platforms to hydro power and petrochemical plants. In 2009 Darrell enjoyed a brief 18 month spell working for Miller as an EPC Claims Broker, before moving back into claims adjusting with Starr, Talbot and now Brit, where he has managed the Energy Claims Team since 2016. His experience of the London and specifically Lloyds market expands over 20 years dealing with complex and high value claims as a Service Provider, Broker and Managing Agent and handling multiple Energy-related losses from all over the world. Darrell co-created the London BI Academy in 2012, and currently sits on the Joint Energy Claims Group.
Darrell is a motorbike enthusiast, owns a sports bike and has completed track days at Silverstone and lived to tell the tale. His need for speed runs in the family with his 11 year old nephew a 6 time British mini GP champion and recently signed for a professional moto GP motorbike racing team.
Tim has over 40 years' experience in major international insurance dispute resolution, including marine and war risks, energy, construction all-risks, fraud investigation, reinsurance, political risks and general coverage disputes. He regularly deals with complex issues under energy related CAR, OEE, LOPI and Operating Policies in many jurisdictions around the world.
He has acted in major disaster litigation involving issues of corporate criminal law and is legal adviser to the London market Joint Rig Committee on a range of issues.
He is a CEDR accredited mediator, sits as an arbitrator and is a panel member of the ARIAS (UK) panel of arbitrators.
Chambers & Partners 2019 records praise from clients describing Tim as a "leader in the space" and he is also described as a "very user-friendly lawyer and a problem solver who knows the market inside out."
Fiona advises clients on coverage issues and policy disputes involving all types of insurance and reinsurance. She assists clients particularly with claims under property damage and business interruption, professional indemnity and credit risk and political risk insurance, as well as reinsurance contracts. Fiona has experience handling claims arising out of a wide variety of underlying risks, from terrorist attacks to earthquakes, and financial crime to Covid-19. She is particularly known for her work with clients in the energy sector.
Fiona has been described in Legal 500 2020 as “exceptionally bright and committed” and “a star. She has unrivalled technical expertise combined with a very approachable manner”.
Fiona's experience includes advising:
Leigh's expertise covers onshore and offshore energy, power and heavy industrial insurance risks, both coverage and defence. Leigh qualified as a barrister and practised for five years at commercial set 7 King's Bench Walk. His marine disputes-related experience includes charterparty, carriage of goods, sale of goods and ship sale disputes.
In the non-insurance context, Leigh has assisted clients with ultra-high value disputes concerning company M&A, shareholder interests, joint ventures, bonds, directors' duties and financial regulation both in court (domestically and abroad) and in international arbitration.
Leigh was called to the Bar in 1996. He was admitted as a Solicitor in 2007.
After leaving the British Army as an infantry captain in 1990, Sigurd joined Sedgwick Energy in London. In 2001 he left Marsh, and moved back to his home town Ålesund, and eventually found work as a ship’s plumber. In 2003, he joined the then Statoil, in their insurance department. His day to day responsibilities include arranging construction insurances, claims handling and insurance of Equinor’s renewable portfolio. He also arranged the construction insurances for Equinor’s operated CCS Northern Lights and Hywind Tampen Projects.
Tormod is the Head of Marine and Energy Claims Practice Nordic Region of Marsh, a position he has held for the last 5 years. In 2015 he was also appointed as the Energy Practice Leader for the Nordic Region of Marsh. Tormod started his insurance career in 1983 in the Oslo division of Norwegian Hull Club whilst still studying. In 1985 he joined UNI Forsikring where he became department manager for Marine Claims. Tormod moved to insurance broker Aon Grieg as head of Marine & Energy Claims in 1989, a position he held for almost 23 years. During his career Tormod has handled complex claims in the global energy insurance market, including onshore and offshore losses, complex contractor claims such as total loss of drilling rigs, particular average, control of well and business interruption claims.
Chris is a Director with Charles Taylor Adjusting in its Energy claims division where since early 2008 he has enjoyed working on a broad range of energy claims involving fixed and floating offshore facilities, including a number of high profile losses. Chris has an interest and expertise in the construction/conversion and operation of FPSOs. He began his career as a ship surveyor with Classification Society Lloyd’s Register, following a short period with oil company Amerada Hess as part of a team delivering the conversion of the FPSO Triton. Having gained considerable experience with ship construction and marine engineering practices, he eventually transferred to Lloyd’s Register’s Research and Development Department where he worked on the development of technical standards and marine rules for engineering systems. Chris is a Chartered Engineer, a member of the Institute of Marine Engineers, and also a member of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers.
Chris has been a member of the Lillehammer Conference Organising Committee since 2014.
Lisa has worked in the insurance industry for 20 years and holds a Higher Diploma in Secretarial and Administrative Procedures, a Diploma in Business Administration, and is CIPD qualified.
Having worked as a personal assistant for companies including Marsh, Wellington and Catlin Underwriting until 2008, Lisa then joined Braemar in 2009 as the Office Manager, following an around the world trip. Her adaptability, communication and organisational skills along with her experience and knowledge are what have led her to become the Group Operations & HR Director for AqualisBraemar.
Lisa is also secretary to the Lillehammer Conference Organising Committee since 2011.
Rosalia started her insurance career in 2003 at Xchanging Claims Services, dealing with Offshore Claims. In 2007 she joined Marsh as a Client Executive, being the client focal point for major Oil and Gas clients and participating in tenders, programme structure, marketing and day to servicing. During this time Rosalia was seconded twice to the organisation of Maersk Oil and Gas in Copenhagen, assisting with insurance and claims management.
In 2012, Rosalia joined DONG Energy as Risk Manager, in charge of risk and insurance for DONG E&P/INEOS Oil & Gas for all operational and construction activities in Denmark, Norway and the UK. Her responsibilities included insurance and claims management, contract risk management in respect of liability, indemnity and insurance, commercial agreements, partner relations and stakeholder management (Insurers, Brokers, Loss Adjusters, Government Entities, Lawyers).
Rosalia recently moved to Cubico Sustainable Investments as Global Risk & Insurance Manager, responsible for Cubico’s worldwide assets.
She holds a Masters in International Logistics.
Spencer is a Director of Lloyd Warwick Middle East, based in Abu Dhabi. He is a Chartered Engineer and also holds a Master’s degree in Insurance and Risk Management. Having over 23 years international engineering, power, marine and energy experience, Spencer has been involved with many large losses.
Throughout his career Spencer has handled a wide variety of claims, including up/downstream energy, petrochemical, heavy engineering, pressure vessels, power production, offshore energy sectors including MOUs, FPSOs and drilling systems, machinery systems, specialist subsea equipment, shipping, yachts, ports and terminals, ship repairer’s liability and renewable energy.
Initially working for Lloyd’s Register of Shipping Classification Society Spencer spent several years working overseas carrying out hull and machinery, offshore fabrications, vessel in-service and new construction surveys, and worked in London and Copenhagen carrying out structural engineering design work.
From 2001 he joined a specialist international loss adjusting firm and has been involved with complex insurance claims, technical surveys, forensic engineering and root cause investigations. Spencer has also provided litigation support and expert related work in UK, Europe, USA and South Asia. He has lectured on marine and energy subjects including FLNG, FPSOs, MOUs, subsea equipment and claims handling around the world. In 2015 he became a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights.
Gaute Gjelsten is a partner at Wikborg Rein's Oslo office and head of the firm's Energy, Shipping & Offshore practice. Gjelsten specialises in international energy and insurance law, and frequently advises on coverage issues, policy disputes and contentious aspects involving insurance in the energy sector.
Simon has extensive experience in energy and marine insurance disputes, and his practice also includes a deep experience of construction all-risks, professional indemnity, reinsurance, political risks and general coverage disputes. He regularly advises London and international insurers in relation to complex claims in the energy insurance sector, and assists with the drafting of policy wordings. Simon is also part of Clyde & Co’s oil & gas team. Simon is recognised by Legal 500 as a leading individual for insurance and reinsurance litigation.
Kevin served for almost 30 years as CEO of MatthewsDaniel Group, during which time he steered it through both an MBO and, some years later, a sale to Bureau Veritas. In 2020, Kevin transitioned into a new role as ‘Special Advisor’ to MatthewsDaniel and its shareholders. He also remains involved in a number of active claims.
Kevin has been a member of the Lillehammer conference organising committee since 2001.
Jan-Hugo, born 1959, grew up in a family of fishermen and seafarers in the Norwegian Arctic, just north of the 70° parallel, north of the town of Tromsoe. After junior college and military service Jan-Hugo started his insurance career as a marine underwriter in October 1979. He moved to offshore energy claims in February 1986, all the time with Gard and its predecessors. He graduated from the Norwegian Shipping Academy (Marine Insurance Candidate) in 1986 and became a Chartered Insurer and Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute, London, in 1991. He is the founder of the Lillehammer Energy Claims Conference (1996) and has been chairing its organising committee for all conferences except one. Jan-Hugo was a member of the Offshore Energy Committee of the International Union of Marine Insurers (IUMI) from 2008 to 2018 and was elected as a Vice Chairman on the IUMI Executive Committee from 2018. He has served as a board member of CEFOR - The Nordic Association of Marine Insurers from 2011 to 2014. Jan-Hugo is a Vice President and the Head of Offshore Energy Claims at Gard.
Alex is a partner in the insurance and reinsurance disputes group in the London office of Herbert Smith Freehills LLP with a focus on acting for corporate policyholders. Alex specialises in all aspects of insurance claims and associated coverage advice in the energy insurance sector and has represented owners and contractors on major construction and operational losses, both onshore and offshore. He also handles a broad range of commercial disputes. Alex leads the ADR practice within the firm’s disputes division and is a CEDR Accredited Mediator. He is a solicitor advocate (Higher Courts Civil Proceedings).
Jason leads the Marine & Energy claim teams at Miller. Over his career Jason has successfully handled some of the insurance markets largest energy claims and has experienced most types of losses that the energy industry can produce.
Jason is a member of the energy senior management team and a member of marine claims sub-committee at the London and International Insurance Brokers Association (LIIBA).
Away from work, Jason is a keen runner and is a member of the Lloyd’s running club.
Paul joined the Lloyds Claims Office in 1982 and worked there for 22 years before leaving to join Watkins Syndicate as Claims Manager, in which capacity he still works today. A regular speaker at Lillehammer, Houston Mariners and numerous other forums, Paul has been involved in most of the large energy claims in the market, either as leader or as a claims agreement party, and continues to do so today. He has been involved in many difficult negotiations and mediations, some of which has led to litigation along the way but fortunately not too often.
Paul became a member of the Lillehammer Conference Organising Committee in 2014.
Rodney acquired a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1997. He spent the next several years with an international oilfield service provider working as a Trainee Engineer and Field Representative in drilling and production operations in Dubai and Venezuela.
Thereafter, Rodney started his career as a licensed insurance loss adjuster specializing in claims unique to the oil and gas industry and has worked for various energy loss adjusting firms throughout the years primarily in Houston, Texas, with one posting in London, England. His claims experience includes control of well, rig physical damage, downhole tools, pollution remediation, processing plants and refineries, general liability, pipelines, and business interruption/loss of production income.
The claims Rodney has been involved with span the globe and range in quantum from hundreds of thousands to hundreds of millions of dollars. Rodney has also spoken at various seminars and training courses and routinely given presentations about industry trends.
Henry is Marsh JLT’s principal contact for all US & Scandinavian losses into London, in addition to providing assistance across the rest of the world.
Having joined JLT after graduating in Naval Architecture & Offshore Engineering at Newcastle University, Henry began his tenure working on energy & marine claims. From 2015, Henry focussed exclusively on energy claims where he was primarily responsible for claims emanating from Asia & Middle East.
Henry joined JLT in 2014, returning in 2018 after working for AIG Europe as Energy Claims Adjuster, where he adjusted both Up & Downstream losses.
Teresa is a Senior Claims Executive working with the Offshore Energy claims team at Gard since 2020. Prior to this, she has been handling Shipowner’s and Charterer’s P&I claims in addition to being an internal specialist in dry bulk cargoes. Teresa holds bachelor's degrees from the University of Houston, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Maritime Law from London Metropolitan University.
Franco's experience encompasses court litigation in England and Wales and in foreign jurisdictions as well as in international arbitration.
His insurance practice sees him acting regularly for insurers in the London market and across various international insurance markets. His primary business-line focus includes energy (upstream, downstream and renewables) and most marine classes (predominantly hull and war). Franco also has considerable reinsurance and professional negligence disputes experience, encompassing both coverage and liability work.
Franco's commercial dispute resolution experience includes successfully handling power, EPC, shipping and agency agreement disputes as well as general commercial contract disputes.
In non-contentious matters, Franco has significant experience of insurance and commercial contract drafting. He has been involved in a number of recent insurance wordings reviews in the energy and marine insurance markets.
Following graduation in 2013, Emma worked as an engineer specialising in the engineering and design of mooring systems for FPSO’s. In 2014, Emma transitioned into Energy Loss Adjusting and has gained experience working on a variety of energy losses throughout Europe, Africa, North America, South America, and Australia. Since joining Lloyd Warwick in 2018, Emma has worked on a number of significant renewable energy losses including offshore and onshore wind, and solar. In addition, Emma continues to work on a variety of Upstream and Downstream property damage and liability claims including Submarine Power Cables, Offshore Platforms, Rotating Machinery and Onshore Pipelines. Some notable recent assignments include:
Angela is a Partner in Clyde & Co's London office. She advises insurers on complex energy insurance matters globally, across construction and operational phases. She has a broad knowledge and understanding of the oil & gas, petrochemical and renewables sectors.
Angela assists insurers across the full spectrum of their requirements including drafting policy wordings, advising on coverage, defending claims (liability claims and coverage) and pursuing subrogated recoveries.
Angela has significant experience of representing insurers in litigation and arbitration, including jurisdictional disputes, but she has also frequently helped insurers to conclude claims more amicably through settlement negotiations and mediation.
Jake graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Geology from Royal Holloway University of London in 2012, following which he gained experience in the oilfield working as a mudlogger with Baker Hughes in the UK sector of the North Sea. During this time he worked on jack-up and semi-submersible drilling rigs for various Operators, where his responsibilities included well control monitoring duties, engineering and drilling data analysis, and geological and hydrocarbon evaluation.
In 2014 he started his career in the London market as an energy loss adjuster with Matthews Daniel, where he has worked on a portfolio of upstream insurance claims around the world. He has recently been working on several control of well and loss of production income claims for oil majors in the North Sea.
Patrick is a claims consultant and advises clients on both onshore and offshore claims.
Since joining INDECS in 2016, Patrick has been involved in the handling and management of some of the largest and most complex offshore construction claims in Australia, Indonesia, South Korea, Egypt, Qatar and Norway, as well as a number of onshore PD/BI and DSU claims. He has Masters degrees in both Mechanical and Petroleum Engineering, field experience in Quality Control in the Australian construction industry, and is ACII qualified.
Patrick understands the issues involved in the handling of complex claims and recognises the value in clear and transparent communication and claim presentation with insurers and loss adjusters to efficiently resolve insurance claims.
Adrian is a Major Loss Claims Adjuster at AIG, handling large complex upstream losses worldwide. He started his career in the Insurance industry in 2008 at Xchanging in the Offshore Energy Claims team and joined Torus in 2010 gaining a vast amount of experience handling Onshore, Offshore, Power and Construction losses. At AIG Adrian is based in London and deals with predominantly upstream energy losses occurring globally and written by various AIG offices around the world. Adrian is nearing the completion of the ACII and is part of the CII New Generation Claims team.
Henrik started his insurance career with Marsh AS in 2010 working as a broker, before he joined Statoil’s insurance department in October 2015. In Marsh he was a client facing broker with responsibilities for upstream insurance programs including placement of CAR policies.
The main responsibilities in Statoil relates to procurement of CAR insurance policies and procurement of Operational insurance policies, related claims handling, and general insurance advisory.
Henrik joined the YLECC in 2016.
Gary Walkling is a Partner at RPC's International Property and Energy Insurance practice. Prior to joining the firm in 2009, he worked in Marsh's Energy team for several years.
Gary regularly advises on coverage, disputes and subrogation on all types of claims arising out of the oil and gas, power generation, construction, mining and heavy industry sectors. He has a broad range of domestic and international litigation experience, and has also been involved in a variety of alternative dispute resolution methods including arbitration, adjudication and mediation.
Gary has spent time on secondment with the claims teams at both AXIS and Liberty. He spoke at the Asia Offshore Energy Conference in 2016, and was listed as a next generation lawyer in Legal 500 in 2017.
