Who we are
The people behind the world’s most sustainable cruise ship
Yoshioka Tatsuya
Founder and Director
Bio
Yoshioka founded Peace Boat in 1983, as a non-governmental organization, working for international friendship on an innovative social business model. Under Yoshioka’s leadership, Peace Boat has grown into Japan largest cruising organisation. Additionally, Yoshioka has been active internationally in the fields of education, peace and sustainability. He has addressed United Nations bodies on issues including a Culture of Peace, and was a Nobel Peace Prize Nominee in 2008.
Andrés Molina
Project Manager
Bio
Molina is an independent shipping consultant with 30 years experience in the design, construction and operation of cruise vessels, and is a qualified naval architect. Molina spent 11 years as fleet manager and technical director of Pullmantur, the European subsidiary of Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, managing all aspects of their operation. He has served on committees for Lloyds Register of Shipping, Bureau Veritas and the IMO.
Rachel Armstrong
Assistant to the Director
Remy Millot
Project Coordinator
Karen Hallows
Project Coordinator
Key Advisors
Jaime Oliver
Naval architect at Oliver Design
Bio
Jaime Oliver is a naval engineer and the founder of Oliver Design, a Spanish company specializing in naval design and architecture. It was founded in 1990 and offers a wide range of services for shipyards and ship owners, including concept design, outline, architectural design, interior design, construction drawings, fitting-out and comprehensive site management and supervision. Oliver Design has won many international prizes, including several Shippax Awards for naval design.
Amory Lovins
Co-founder and Chief Scientist,
Rocky Mountain Institute
Bio
"An exciting vision of a ship that fits the needs, and inspires the people, of the planet it travels. Projects with this ambition seem impossible until they are done, but doing them transforms the industry”
Physicist Amory Lovins, ex-Oxford don, honorary architect and Swedish engineering academician has written 500 papers and 31 books, taught at ten universities, redesigned numerous buildings, vehicles, and factories, and advised industry for over 40 years in over 50 countries.
A National Petroleum Council member, he advises the Chief of Naval Operations. He has received the “Alternative Nobel,” Blue Planet, Volvo, Zayed, Onassis, Nissan, Shingo, and Mitchell Prizes, MacArthur and Ashoka Fellowships, 12 honorary doctorates, and the Heinz, Lindbergh, National Design, and World Technology Awards. Time named him one of the world’s 100 most influential people; Foreign Policy, one of 100 top global thinkers.
Tomas Kåberger
Professor of Industrial Energy Policy
Bio
“Peace Boat’s Ecoship Project – with its perfect combination of improved energy efficiency and renewable sources of energy – is an attempt to break through boundaries and bring in new sustainable technologies in to the shipping industry. It will move the whole industry, setting examples of what can be achieved.”
Tomas Kåberger is a professor of Industrial Energy Policy at Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden. He also serves as a visiting scientist at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, at the Institute of Advanced Studies at Technische Universität München, Germany and at the International Institute of Industrial Environmental Economics at Lund University, Sweden.
He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and the Swedish Association of Energy Economists. Kåberger has held leading positions in companies working with automotive biofuels, combustion technology, and wind energy.