Jose Maura knows first-hand what it is like to experience pollution from an oil spill. He saw the beaches of northern Spain where he used to play as a boy stained by the cargo of thick heavy fuel oil that spewed from the stricken tanker Prestige in November 2002.
At the time he was four years into his career at the United Nations’ International Oil Pollution Compensation (IOPC) Funds, which he has headed as secretary general for a decade.
