Dr. Harry T. Conway 
Chair, Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC)
International Maritime Organisation (IMO)
Alternate Permanent Representative of Liberia to IMO
& Actg Permanent Representative


Dr. Conway is the Chair of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the International Maritime Organization.  Prior to becoming Chair in December 2022, Dr Conway was Vice Chair for five years. He has served as Chair of several steering committees of the MEPC, including that for the Comprehensive Impact Assessment on States of IMO GHG Short-Term Measures; the IMO 4th Greenhouse Gas Study, and the Review of compliant fuel oil availability as per Regulation 14.8 of MARPOL Annex VI. He participates actively in all Working, Drafting, Correspondence and Intersessional Groups of the Committees and Subcommittees of the IMO. He is also Member of the International Quality Assessment Review Body (IQARB), an industry led initiative to ensure safety of vessels.  

Dr. Conway has served as panelist/speaker at numerous international shipping and ocean related events, including the ‘Blue Oceans Conference’, Monrovia, Liberia, 2019; ‘America 2018 Greenport Congress’, Baltimore, USA; ‘2018 World Maritime Day Parallel Event’, Szczecin, Poland; ‘2018 Propulsion and Future Fuels Conference’, Hamburg, Germany, and ‘2017 Future Ready Shipping Conference’, Singapore. 

Dr Conway holds a PhD from Cardiff University, United Kingdom. His research interest is in environmental politics, with the 2015 UNFCCC Paris Agreement as focus. He also holds a Master of Art (with Distinction) in International Maritime Policy, University of Greenwich, United Kingdom; and Master of Business Administration from the Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen The Netherlands, respectively.  Dr. Conway is a Contributor to the Book: The African Union and the Law of the Sea published in 2017 by the Juta Press of South Africa. He is one of the experts on the continent of Africa that drafted the 2050 Africa Integrated Maritime Strategy which was adopted 2014 by the Assembly of Heads of States of the African Union. He has also attended numerous IMO training workshops and seminars since 2007.