Meet Mayte Medina, Chair of the IMO HTW Sub-committee, (Human Element, Training and Watchkeeping) representing the US Coast Guard at IMO.
Mayte was born and raised in Panama and dreamt of becoming a Panama Canal Pilot as a little girl. She ended up working for the Panama Administration for 7 years after she graduated from Kings Point and sailed for a couple of years. Mayte has been working in the development and implementation of domestic and international maritime safety, security and...
In episode 125 you meet Elda Kazara Belja, Lecturer and Admissions Officer at the IMO International Maritime Law Institute, IMLI
IMLI’s overall mission is to help build the legal capacity among IMO member states, particularly developing states, to fulfil their obligations under the IMO treaties.
This interview was made June 25th, at the IMO in London and the next day IMLI was celebrating its 30th anniversary which Elda talks about in the episode.
It’s impressive that more than 1000 students from...
In episode 124 you meet the Project Manager for the Functional Review at the International Maritime Organization, Mads Svendsen, and can hear him describe how he has worked with 20 different UN organisations before arriving at the IMO almost a year ago.
The first 6 months Mads spent to try and understand the culture and find out where the organisation want to go before launching a series of workshops and then move on to the strategy. It’s an exciting project and the end goal is a goal-based...
In this the 3/4 episodes with people employed by the International Maritime Organisation, IMO, you meet Karine Langlois, Communications Officer for @IMOHQ the UN agency for Maritime Affairs, who speaks about target groups, message to the public about the maritime industry and raising the profile of our industry.
Karine is from Canada but is working for IMO in London, she is the producer and the video photographer for the videos coming out from the IMO. Please have a look at Turning the tide –...
When visiting the IMO during the Day of the Seafarer in June, I had the opportunity to sit down with a few people at the IMO to discuss the organisation and where it is headed. In episode 122 you will hear Frederick J. Kenney, Director, Legal and External Affairs talking about the International Maritime Organization.
If you are interested in the Adopt a Ship programme or the IMO Goodwill Maritime Ambassador scheme or the Greenwich Maritime Museum here are the links.
I sum up my impressions from...
https://shippingpodcast.com/frederick-j-kenney-director-legal-and-external-affairs-imo/
In episode 121 you meet Linda Ryan, Director Administrative Division, International Maritime Organisation, IMO, who is the first of four episodes recorded with people “inside the IMO”, explaining the important work that is being done in this UN Body.
Linda speaks about the “Functional review” that is going on within IMO, that is a “change” project aiming to make the organisation more effective and relevant to the maritime industry. “Young IMO” is something that I never knew existed but makes me...
In episode 115 you meet Helen Buni, who works at the Technical Cooperation Division at IMO and is the focal point for the programme Women in Maritime, the IMO programme on diversity.
Why did the International Maritime Organisation decide on “Empowering Women in the Maritime Industry” for 2019? And what will happen next year when the theme is something else? Will IMO still be working with the gender issue?
Listen to Helen Buni speaking about how she sees the future and what initiatives that IMO...
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.
Ally felt alone in the world and especially on the water, which she loves so much, and had experiences to be the best workplace ever, so she decided to start Women Offshore – a safe place online where you can share your...
https://shippingpodcast.com/ally-cedeno-founder-women-offshore/
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. Cecilia doesn’t fall in the usual perception of a researcher, she makes her findings easy to digest and is willing to stand up and speak about what she finds.
Cecilia has now received funds from AFA försäkring (insurance company) to research the #metoo movement in the shipping community. She will look into how other...