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July 2011www.sname.org/sname/mt Geraldine Knatz became executive director of the Port of Los Angeles in 2006, where she oversees the daily operations and internal management of the nations number one container port. She has aggressively advanced the Port of Los Angeles green growth? agenda, which focuses on clean, sustainable port devel- opment, continuous job creation, and long-term eco- nomic prosperity. Included in Los Angeles magazines Power List? of L.A. inuentials, Knatz was the 2008-2009 chair of the American Association of Port Authorities, is the chair of the World Ports Climate Initiative, and recently began a two- year term as president of the International Association of Ports and Harbors. Kai Levander has been in charge of naval architec- ture at Aker Yards, now STX Europe. He was responsible for R&D, concept development, and new building projects in the Cruise and Ferries Business Area. He graduated in 1967 as a naval architect from the Helsinki University of Technology. Through his 40-year career, he has been the innovator in many ferry and cruise ship projects, including the 225,000 GT Oasis of the Seas , delivered in 2009 from STX Finland. Yira A. Flores Naylor, a technical writer/ editor and trans- lator with the Panama Canal Authority, has worked with the canal organization for 20 years, documenting the pro- cesses and operations of the waterway, both at the public relations level and currently in the Communication and Historic Documentation Section under the Canal Expansion Program. She is in charge of documenting all aspects of the execution of the program, with a focus on the execution of the largest, most comprehensive contract, that of the design and construction of the ird Set of Locks. Octavio Stagg, a SNAME member since 1981, has been the naval architect for the Transit Operations Division of the Panama Canal since January 2000, responsible for review of drawings to con- rm vessel compliance with technical requirements for canal transit. He is involved with vessel inspections and emergency response, and is a technical expert on call. He also is project manager for civil construction and mod- ernization projects and has developed specications for various oating equip- ment and a vessel study for the expansion project. Stagg was senior engineer with American Bureau of Shipping from 1990 to 2000. From 1986 to 1990, he was naval archi- tect and systems manager at C. R. Cushing & Co. He received a B.E. degree from SUNY Maritime College in 1983 and a master of business adminis- tration from INCAE in 2006. Robert Kuo-Cheng Tseng is director in the design depart- ment of CSBC in Taiwan. He received a bachelors degree from the department of naval architecture and marine engi- neering, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan, in 1986; and a masters degree from the Institute of Naval Architecture, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, in 1988. From 2002 to 2010, he was deputy director in the design department of CSBC (leading the hull design sec- tion, the basic design section, and the engineering IT sec- tion). He has had experience in ship hydrodynamics, basic design and planning of new ship types, project manage- ment for newbuilding projects, business model planning, col- laboration on multi-party projects, and marketing and product planning. (feature contributors)