VIRTUAL HIGH-LEVEL MEETING │ 7-14 OCTOBER 2020

A new way forward: Rethinking global seaborne trade

The Global Maritime Forum’s Virtual High-Level Meeting will convene decision makers, thought leaders and experts from across the maritime spectrum and beyond to lay the groundwork for a more resilient, sustainable, and fair global economy in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Speakers

  • Andreas Rangel Ahrens

    Head of Climate

    Inter IKEA Group

  • Bryan Fisher

    Managing Director

    RMI

  • David Doherty

    Head of Oil and Renewable Fuels Research 

    BNEF

  • David Kiron

    Editorial Director

    MIT Sloan Management Review

  • Elisabeth Munck af Rosenschöld

    Global Sustainability Manager

    Ikea Supply AG

  • Eugene Rumer

    Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

    Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

  • Ian Urbina

    Director

    The Outlaw Ocean Project

  • Jan Hoffmann

    Head of Trade and Logistics

    United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

  • Jeremy Nixon

    Global Chief Executive Officer

    Ocean Network Express (ONE)

  • Libby Jewett

    Director of the Ocean Acidification Program

    National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

  • Marc Levinson

    Author of The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller

  • Michael Parker

    Chairman, Global Shipping, Logistics & Offshore

    Citi

  • Michelle Mahony

    Managing Partner

    Daggerwing Group

  • Patricia Kim

    David M. Rubenstein Fellow, John L. Thornton China Center and the Center for East Asia Policy Studies

    The Brookings Institution

  • Rebeca Grynspan

    Secretary-General

    United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

  • Richard Martin Humphreys

    Global Lead, Transport Connectivity and Regional Integration

    World Bank Group

  • Valerie C. Smith

    Managing Director and Chief Sustainability Officer

    Citi

  • Vineet Mittal

    Chairman

    Avaada Group

  • Virginia Haufler

    2022-23 Fulbright Canada-Pierre Elliott Trudeau Fellow, Joint Chair in Contemporary Public Policy

    McGill Institute for the Study of Canada

  • W. Gyude Moore

    Senior Policy Fellow

    Center for Global Development

Moderator

  • Nicholas Davis

    Industry Professor and Co-director of the Human Technology Institute (HTI)

    University of Technology, Sydney