Professor Alastair Couper
MA ( Aberdeen) PhD (ANU, Canberra) Dsc (Plymouth) FNI Master Mariner
Visiting Professor of Maritime Policy
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Alastair Couper, former Head of the Department of Maritime Studies and International Transport at the University of Wales, Cardiff and Director of the Seafarers International Research Centre. A world expert in the maritime field, he has several years of shipping experience and has been a consultant with UN agencies: IMO, ILO and UNCTAD. His recent publications are Sailors and Traders, A Maritime History of the Pacific Peoples (University of Hawai'i Press 2009), Voyages of Abuse: seafarers, human rights and international shipping (London 1999). |
