Jan first joined Cargill in 1999 as a management trainee in Amsterdam. He spent the next 10 years gaining experience as a trading manager in the freight, grain and energy markets, before being appointed head of Cargill’s coal trading business in 2012.

He went on to lead Cargill’s North America power and gas unit in Houston, Texas, before returning to Geneva in 2016 as president of Cargill Ocean Transportation. At the same time, he was invited to join Cargill’s global corporate risk committee.

Across the maritime sector, Jan is a respected advocate for sustainable shipping, actively supporting reduced emissions, better vessel environmental performance, safer working conditions, and a more diverse workforce.

He is chair of the Global Maritime Forum, non-executive board member of RightShip, advisory board member of Lloyds Register and a member of the board of advisors for London International Shipping Week 2025.

Jan graduated from the University of Maastricht with a master’s degree in economics, marketing and organisation.

Semiramis also serves on various boards and committees, including the Hellenic committees of DNV, NKK, and BV, respectively. She also serves as a director of The UK P&I Club and is a member of the board of directors of the Union of Greek Shipowners.

Semiramis has been a member of the board of the Hellenic Marine Environment Protection Association (HELMEPA) since March 2018 and was elected chairperson of the above-mentioned Association in June 2020. She also serves as vice-chairperson of INTERMEPA. Throughout her work at HELMEPA and INTERMEPA, she became a strong advocate for the importance of sustainable development for future generations, in the shipping industry, and society as a whole.

Semiramis obtained her BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College, London, and her MSc in Naval Architecture from University College, London.

Driving international and regional industry collaboration, Hing is the chairman of Bureau Veritas Global Marine and Offshore Advisory Council and Chairman of RINA’s Asia Decarbonisation Committee. He is also a founder and convenor of the Greater Bay Maritime Forum and was appointed a committee member of the consultative committee on Guangdong-Hong Kong Co-operation (Guanghzhou Nansha). In addition, Hing is a trustee of the Hong Kong Maritime Museum, honorary president of the Institute of Seatransport, chairman of the Port Welfare Committee of the Marine Department of the Hong Kong SAR Government, and a member of the Hong Kong Committee of Nippon Kaiji Kyokai.

He also steers a corporate-school partnership programme to nurture future multidisciplinary maritime talents in Liaoning province, Shandong province, Shanghai and the Greater Bay Area (Shenzhen and Guangzhou). Hing is also a member of the Maritime Services Training Board of the Vocational and Training Council in Hong Kong.

Stephen has over 40 years of banking experience. Over the course of his career, he has worked in several areas, including retail banking, risk management, and project finance. For the past 35 years, he has been providing and arranging finance for the shipping industry. Before joining ING Bank in 2002, Mr Fewster was responsible for the Asian ship finance business of Bankgesellschaft Berlin AG, and prior to this, Hill Samuel Bank. He also previously served on the Singapore Maritime International Advisory Panel.

Claus Hemmingsen originally joined A.P. Moller – Maersk in 1981 as a shipping trainee. After completing his shipping education, he served in Maersk Drilling’s human resources department until 1987, when he moved to Maersk Line. He worked for 12 years in both Hong Kong and Singapore, and in 2003 returned to the head office in Copenhagen as senior vice president for Maersk’s global service delivery activities, while also serving as CEO of APM Terminals.

Claus took over responsibility for Maersk Drilling and Maersk Supply Service in 2005, for SVITZER A/S in 2008 and for Maersk Tankers in 2012. He was CEO for Maersk Drilling until October 2016. In 2019, Claus completed the separation of all oil and gas-related activities from Maersk, including Maersk Drilling, and became chairman of the now independently listed company. He served as chairman through the end of 2022.

Claus was a member of the executive board of A.P. Moller – Maersk from 2007 and served as vice-CEO of the Group from 2016 to 2019.

He became a board member of the global engineering, architecture, and consultancy company Rambøll in 2023 and was elected chairman the following year.

Claus has supplemented his education with management courses at London Business School and Cornell University, holds an Executive MBA (honours) from IMD, and in 2018 completed an international directors programme at INSEAD.

Lynn is also the Theodora D. ’78 and William H. Walton III ’74 Professor in Engineering, and Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University. Before GCMD, she was director of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, where she commissioned the Rapid Switch Initiative and the Net-Zero America Study that has provided unprecedented temporal and geographic granularity on transition pathways. She also founded Princeton E-ffiliates Partnership, a flagship corporate partner programme to engage industry, and launched Princeton’s first executive programme in partnership with the World Economic Forum to contextualise the complexities of the energy transition for business leaders.

Lynn received BSEs in chemical engineering and materials science and engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and her PhD in chemical engineering from Princeton University. She is co-founder of Andluca Technologies, a startup developing wireless smart window retrofits to increase building energy efficiency and occupant comfort. For developing this technology, she and her team received the 2020 Thomas Edison Patent Award from the NJ Council on Research and Development. She is a Young Global Leader with the World Economic Forum and a fellow of the American Physical Society and the Materials Research Society.

Renowned for innovative leadership on technology and sustainability, and driven by conviction in rapid evolution from analogue, in 2017 Captain Unni founded Alpha Ori Technologies, of which he is joint CEO. He established its Centre of Innovation, which can remotely monitor, diagnose and control most operational aspects of digital vessels using its patented and ClassNK-approved software, SMARTShip.

Captain Unni is a Class 1 Master Mariner from Mumbai’s LBS College and an alumnus of the Harvard Business School. A totally committed leader, he believes that societal benefit is key, insisting on community alongside corporate value. A creator and a determined philanthropist, Captain Unni sits on the boards of the North P & I Association, the Maritime Anti-Corruption Network, the Asia-Pacific Advisory Committee for major classification societies and the Gandhigram Rural Institute. He is also a strategic thought partner with major change-making network Ashoka, a Trustee of Cochin Cancer Society and a Governor at the Indian Institute of Management.

At home Captain Unni is a family man and a keen marathon runner. At work he is a principal shipping executive, a passionate humanitarian and a vocal supporter of the net-zero emissions ambition by 2050, and has created, leads and drives a major and growing shipping organisation cast in his own image.

Mads has worked in shipping for almost 20 years. Prior to his appointment as CEO of Navigator, he was the head of industry transition at the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping and before that held several senior roles at shipping businesses, including as CEO of J. Lauritzen A/S and CFO of TORM Plc and Svitzer.

Mads holds an MSc in Economics from the University of Copenhagen and an MBA from the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne.