Meet the brightest shining star in the maritime industry right now, Ally Cedeno, Founder of Women Offshore. She is the passionate young woman who went to sea and unfortunately ended up on a ship where she didn’t feel comfortable but had to endure for another 6 months. Continue Reading …
Ally Cedeno, Founder Women Offshore
Cecilia Müller Torbrand, Program Director, LLM, MACN Secretariat
Meet Cecilia Müller Torbrand, Program Director, LLM, MACN Secretariat in Copenhagen. She started the Maritime Anti-Corruption Network, MACN in 2011 and have now managed to attract more than 30 pct of the world tonnage. Continue Reading …
Cecilia Österman, CEO & Researcher at Comfortably Safe AB and Senior Lecturer, Kalmar Maritime Academy, Linneus University
Welcome to the 109th episode of the Shipping Podcast and the 50th female interviewee! Cecilia Österman is the Chief Engineer that wen ashore and decided to become a researcher. Continue Reading …
Emilie Christiansen, Legal Counsel, Group Legal – Region Europe and Africa DNVGL
It’s energising to meet young people and listen to what they have to say! What does the Millenials value in the workplace? Who do they want to work for and with?Continue Reading …
Helle Hammer, Managing Director, CEFOR, the Nordic Association of Marine Insurers
In episode 103, I finally got the chance to sit down and speak with Helle Hammer, Managing Director, CEFOR. Our paths have never crossed before, we just know each other through mutual friends in the marine insurance industry. Continue Reading …
Sofia Fürstenberg Stott, Business Development Manager, Nor-Shipping
Meet a true Scandinavian, a female leader from Sweden, living in Denmark and working for a Norwegian company, meet Sofia Fürstenberg Stott, Owner of Fürstenberg Maritime Advisory and Business Development Manager at Nor-Shipping. Continue Reading …
Paul Holthus, Founding President & CEO, World Ocean Council
At the Opening Oceans Conference, organised by NOR Shipping, I met with Paul Holthus, CEO of the World Ocean Council, WOC, who was one of the keynote speakers. Paul founded WOC when he saw that shipping and the ocean environment are both inseparably linked, but with the former having a dramatic effect on the latter.Continue Reading …
Peter Thomson, United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean
Peter Thomson @ThomsonFiji the United Nations Special Envoy for the Oceans, was one of the keynote speakers at the Opening Oceans Conference in Copenhagen, May 2-3, 2018 and I managed to catch him for an interview. Continue Reading …
Daniela Fernandez, Founder & CEO, Sustainable Ocean Alliance
Attending the Opening Oceans Conference, which creates a roadmap for maritime business leaders to explore the new ocean economy options, discover synergies with their existing businesses, meet investment and gateway partners and make profitable strategic decisions, in Copenhagen early May 2018, I met Daniela Fernandez, a passionate young woman who wants to engage young people in innovation, change and new ideas about how to use the Ocean space. Daniela is the Founder & CEO of the Sustainable Ocean Alliance. Continue Reading …
Dr. Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry, President, World Maritime University
In episode 64, you meet Dr. Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry (LL.B, LL.M (2), Ph.D International Law) who is the President of the World Maritime University based in Malmo, Sweden. She talks about her lengthy career within the United Nations system and especially the time she dedicated to the new Maritime Labour Convention, MLC, where 68 instruments now finally are merged into one single Convention.
Anne H. Steffensen, CEO Danish Shipowners’ Association
Meet Anne H. Steffensen, General Manager and CEO of the Danish Shipowners’ Association, Copenhagen.
Anne used to be the Danish Ambassador to the UK, then jumped into the job as the CEO of the Danish Shipowners Association and have never looked back. She has become an advocate for the shipping industry, even if she has always enjoyed spending time with the people in the maritime community.Continue Reading …
Peter Hinchliffe, Secretary-General, International Chamber of Shipping, ICS
In this, the 50th episode of the Shipping Podcast, we meet Peter Hinchliffe, Secretary-General of the ICS. He is a former submarine mariner and joined the ICS 15 years ago and since 2010 he is the Secretary-General. Continue Reading …
Kimberly Karlshoej, Head of the Seafarers’ Trust
Kimberley Karlshoej is the Head of the Seafarers’ Trust, she is the woman who tried and escape the maritime industry but was pulled back into the maritime world when the TK Foundation was founded to honour her father, J Torben Karlshoej, who founded the Teekay Corporation, when he passed away. Continue Reading …
Esben Poulsson, Chairman of the International Chamber of Shipping, ICS
Esben Poulsson, Chairman of ENESEL PTE. LTD a Singapore based commercial management and ship owning entity, managing 14 large modern container vessels all under the Singapore Flag.
Kathy Metcalf, President and CEO at Chamber of Shipping of America
Kathy graduated in June 1978 with highest honors from the US Merchant Marine Academy with a Bachelor of Science in Marine Transportation and Nautical Sciences. She spent five years as a deck officer aboard crude oil and product tankers.Continue Reading …
Anna Larsson, Vice President Global Head of Sustainability, Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics and Chair of the Trident Alliance
Anna Larsson, Vice President, Global Head of Sustainability, Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics and Chair of the Trident Alliance.Continue Reading …
Roger Harris, Executive Director, International Seafarers’ Welfare and Assistance Network (ISWAN).
Roger Harris is the Executive Director of the International Seafarers’ Welfare and Assistance Network (ISWAN). He joined the International Committee on Seafarer’s Welfare (ICSW), the predecessor to ISWAN, six years ago.Continue Reading …
Kathi Stanzel, Managing Director, INTERTANKO
Kathi Stanzel is the Managing Director of the International Association of Independent Tanker Owners, INTERTANKO since five years. Prior to that she was twelve years with the International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation, ITOPF, and the International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds, IOPC. Continue Reading …
Andreas Chrysostomou, Director, Department of Merchant Shipping, Cyprus
Andreas Chrysostomou is a naval architect who grew up through the ranks and last year was Nomination for IMO as a candidate for the position of Secretary-General at the International Maritime Organisation, IMO. Continue Reading …
Markku Mylly, Managing Director of the European Maritime Safety Agency, EMSA
Markku Mylly, Managing Director of the European Maritime Safety Agency, EMSA, formerly employed by the Finnish Maritime Administration, but above all a “tanker-man” is running EMSA in Lisbon, which is the link between the member states and the European Commission when it comes to maritime regulations. Continue Reading …
