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Capt. Tamim Al Imam is an Unlimited Foreign-Going Master Mariner and one of the region’s leading specialists in maritime education, training and accreditation. After a seagoing career aboard international cargo vessels from Officer of the Watch to Master, he founded Polaris to bring operational experience and audit-grade rigour to maritime institutions and operators.

He holds a B.Sc. in Maritime Technology (Marine Survey), is a Certified Maritime Auditor under ISO/IEC 17021-1 and ISO 19011, and a Lead Auditor for ISO 9001, 21001, 24438, 14001 and 45001. He has led STCW-compliant simulator installation and integration, institutional ISO and DNV accreditations, and IMO model course curriculum development in Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Libya; pioneered the world’s first remote simulator training solution during COVID-19; and led the first worldwide implementation of ISO 24438 for maritime education and training. He is a member of the Nautical Institute (MNI), IRCA/CQI, IAMCS and IMLA.

Dr. Capt. Issa Awad Hasan brings more than four decades of command, commercial and executive experience to the leadership of Polaris. A Master Mariner (Foreign-Going), he served aboard forty vessels from Deck Cadet to Master in full command before founding and leading shipping and ship-management companies across Jordan, the UAE and the Gulf.

He holds a Ph.D. in Maritime Transport and Logistics (Augusta University, USA), a Ph.D. in Maritime Studies (Universiti Malaysia Terengganu), an MBA and a Postgraduate Diploma in Maritime Law (London). He served as President of the Jordan Maritime Association from 2005 to 2011, is an Associate Fellow of the Nautical Institute (London) and a certified marine expert before the Jordanian courts, and was named First-Class Distinguished Trainer of the Year 2022 by the Arab Trainers Union.

Capt. Abdel Nasser Alsheikh Yousef is a Master Mariner (Foreign-Going) and maritime executive with more than 30 years across operational command, senior management and maritime education. He holds dual Doctorates in Business Administration (Logistics; Risk Assessment), an M.Sc. in Sustainability Assessment of Port Operation Management from Plymouth University (UK) and a Marine Surveyor licence from the Jordan Maritime Authority.

His 16 years at sea cover general cargo, bulk, container, chemical tanker, Ro-Ro passenger and high-speed craft, including service as Sea Trial Captain and supervision of high-speed Ro-Ro Pax newbuildings. Ashore he has served as General Manager of Phoenicia Maritime Shipping Services and Head of the Nautical Department at the Jordan Academy for Maritime Studies. He is a CQI/IRCA ISO 9001:2015 Lead Auditor, certified simulator instructor, Associate Fellow of the Nautical Institute and member of IMLA.

Capt. Saifeddin Saquer is a Master Mariner with a Master’s degree in Total Quality Management (with excellence) from the Arab Academy for Science and Technology. He is an EMSA-approved expert and is listed among the STCW competent persons maintained by the IMO Secretary-General under Section A-I/7 of the STCW Code.

He serves as Deputy General Manager of the Maritime Advisory Coalition, following senior roles as General Manager of Phoenicia Maritime Shipping Services; Managing Director of Dolphin Marine Surveys, representing international certification bodies in class, cargo, on/off-hire, draft and condition surveys; and Quality Manager, DPA and Company Security Officer for Arab Ship Management. One of Jordan’s most experienced excellence assessors, he has served as Lead Assessor in more than ten rounds of the King Abdullah II Center for Excellence Awards and as an assessor for the Egypt Government Excellence Award and the Abu Dhabi Excellence Award.

Dr. Eng. Mohamed Khier Kanaan is a Chief Marine Engineer (Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Alexandria) with a Ph.D. and Master’s in Business Management specialising in Total Quality Management and a Diploma in Educational Qualification from Damascus University. He heads the Marine Engineering Studies Department at AMETC / Al-Balqa Applied University, where he has been a Senior Lecturer since 2016.

His career includes 19 years at sea as Chief Engineer aboard oil and chemical tankers and AHTS vessels with ADNATCO, ADNOC and ARAMCO, marine survey work for IRS in Tartous and service as Technical Superintendent for Phoenicia Maritime. He is an accredited assessor and examiner for marine engineers, a certified trainer of the Arab Trainers Union, and a consultant-rank mechanical engineer and member of IMarEST (UK) and the Jordanian and Syrian engineers associations.

Eng. Shawqi Asi is a Chief Marine Engineer with more than 35 years in marine engineering, tanker operations, technical management and maritime education. With United Arab Shipping Company and the Arab Maritime Petroleum Transport Company he progressed from Trainee Engineer to Chief Engineer aboard general cargo vessels, container ships, oil tankers and LPG carriers.

He served as Owner’s Representative and Machinery Inspector at Hyundai Shipyard, Korea, supervising construction of two 105K AFRAMAX oil tankers, and later as Technical Superintendent for Arab Ship Management. He has carried out third-party inspections of LPG, product and VLCC tankers, and lectures at AMETC / Al-Balqa Applied University in marine engineering, tanker operations, safety management and STCW management-level courses, with published training notes in marine control and instrumentation.

Capt. Emad Abu Alhaj is a Master Mariner (Arab Academy for Science and Technology) with 16 years of seagoing service as navigating officer and Master. For more than a decade he was General Manager of Baltic Control in Jordan, directing marine surveys, inspections and audits including draft, quantity and quality, on/off-hire, pre-purchase, condition and load-test surveys, class representation, ship safety inspections and ISM/ISPS audits.

He is an accredited surveyor and auditor for Panama Maritime Documentation Services and the International Naval Surveys Bureau (INSB), and an IFIA surveyor for petroleum and petroleum products and for vegetable oils and fats. He lectures in ship stability, cargo handling and marine surveys at Al-Balqa Applied University and holds recent certification in port facility security (PFSO) and maritime cyber awareness from the UK Department for Transport.

Capt. Amin Al-Qawasmeh is a Master Mariner (STCW II/2, Unlimited) with more than 13 years of progressive experience across sea service, fleet operations, regulatory compliance and shore-based leadership. As Marine Superintendent, Marine Operations Manager and Fleet Designated Person Ashore at Phoenicia Maritime Shipping Services in Aqaba, he has maintained a fleet record of zero detentions and zero major PSC/ISM non-conformities while managing multi-million-dollar operating budgets.

His expertise covers ISM implementation, flag and class liaison (DNV, ABS, NKK), crew management and auditing, dry-docking and technical projects, and environmental and decarbonisation compliance including SEEMP, IMO DCS, EEXI and Engine Power Limitation. He is a CQI/IRCA ISO 9001:2015 Lead Auditor, IMO-trained IMSAS auditor and certified DPA (The Nautical Institute, UK). He lectures in celestial navigation, ship stability and maritime law at Al-Balqa Applied University, publishes on maritime regulation and decarbonisation, and is a member of The Nautical Institute and the Jordan Maritime Association.