Mark Homan is currently serving as a Claims Manager at the IOPC Funds, a position he has held since 2010. He began his professional career as a naval architect before re-qualifying as an Admiralty lawyer. In this capacity, he worked with an international maritime law firm, where he investigated marine casualties, salvage, and collision incidents. Mark later moved into academia, teaching law at the University of Law in London. He has been actively involved in managing oil pollution incidents across various countries, including Greece, South Korea, Nigeria, Mauritius, India, Venezuela, Tobago, the Netherlands and the Philippines.
Mr Homan has lectured extensively on the oil pollution/HNS and liability and compensation regimes in workshops worldwide, to government departments, industry and students, and has assisted with the provision of legal advice to Member States on implementing legislation, and to the IOPC Funds Secretariat on many legal issues regarding incidents under the 1992 CLC/Fund Conventions and separately upon the 2010 HNS Convention.