AAA Welcomes a new Fellow, Senior Associate and Associates

Examination successes October 2024-March 2025.

The core purpose of the Association remains to promote professional standards and correct principles in the adjustment of marine claims by ensuring, through examination or otherwise, that those entering into membership possess a high level of expertise.

We are delighted to announce that Ronaldo Drège has been made a Fellow of the Association. Fellowship is the ultimate accomplishment and requires candidates to have an intricate knowledge of their subject. Qualification is by examination where the pass mark is 75%, plus a practical adjusting paper.

Ronaldo Drège graduated from the Naval Academy in Buenos Aires, Argentina as a Navy Officer (Class CXXVI) and worked as Chief Operations Officer with the United Nations. He joined Albatross Adjusters in 2000 and became a Director of the firm in 2009. Ronaldo has 25 years of experience in the marine insurance field and has handled complex cases involving general average and salvage. He speaks Spanish, English and Greek and is also a member of the Association Mondiale de Dispacheurs (AMD).

We are equally delighted that Alexander Shaw has been made a Senior Associate of the Association, also by successful examination.  

Alex joined Richards Hogg Lindley as a Trainee Average Adjuster in 2015 in the Liverpool office, where he gained experience working on large containership general average security collections and handling hull and machinery and loss of hire claims from a wide variety of shipowner clients in the Netherlands, India, Japan, South America and the Middle East. Between 2021 and 2023, he was seconded to the Dubai office where he handled claims from across the Middle East and Turkey. In 2024, he transferred to the London office as a Senior Average Adjuster and works closely with shipowner clients in North America and insurer and broker clients in the London market.

In addition, we are pleased to announce that the following candidates succeeded in passing their examinations to become Associates:

Niketas Matsentides (Cyprus), Jae Hong Park (Panama), James Heald (London), Pietro Berlingieri (London), Muhammad Azhar Abdul Latip (Singapore), Anthony Kydoniefs (London), Kate Wieczorek (London), Joane Yunizar (Jakarta), Simos Pontikos (Greece) Luthfiah Farharani (Jakarta), John Mantzaris (Greece)