Keynote Presentation: Maritime Challenges and the Skills Gap

The challenges faced by the maritime industry will create significant pressure on those working both on board and ashore. Closing the gap between what is required to do a successful work and the skills available could contribute to safety, efficiency and economic growth.

Meet Irene Rosberg

IRENE ROSBERG is Director of the Executive MBA in Shipping and Logistics (The Blue MBA) at Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Europe’s leading institution of its kind.  From the beginning, she has been responsible for the design, development and co-ordination of The Blue MBA. On behalf of CBS, she has a fundamental role in building global relationships and networks within the maritime industry. She also promotes research identifying challenges and future issues for the maritime industry as a whole.  She is a member of many international boards and committees.  Based on her extensive international network and experience, she has been entrusted with major roles in varied maritime-related activities, and speaks at leading maritime events.  From 2005 to 2010 Irene was Director of the DBA (Doctor of Business Administration) programme.  She is involved in several maritime-related research undertakings and research-based conferences where she draws on expertise from her wide maritime connections, both in terms of academic and industry input.   Since 2013 she has been an evaluator for the Association of MBAs (AMBA), which is described as representing “the highest standard of achievement in postgraduate business education.” In 2014 joined the Board of Advisors for the Panama Maritime. From 2017 to 2021 she was a member  of an EU expert group for the motorways of the seas. She is also the Director for the Blue Board Leadership Programme which was established in 2022.  She is a Member of the Executive Offshore Wind MBA Programme at the Gdynia Maritime University, and a member of the MBA Industry Advisory Board for the School of Management in the Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences at the University of Bradford (UK). At a recent survey she achieved No. 1 place for the top 100 women in the shipping industry for two consecutive years: 2020 and 2021, thereafter she recused herself from participation in the survey.