Dr Katerina Konsta

Dr Katerina Konsta (https://gr.linkedin.com/in/katerina-konsta-847107a) is the CEO of the World Maritime Academy (UK), SeaWorks Training & Consultancy (UK) and Managing Director of STAMKON (Greece). 

Katerina has more than 20 years of international experience in maritime and logistics education, designing and managing undergraduate and postgraduate courses, executive education portfolios, professional development and online courses which has been delivered around the globe, at the top maritime centers. Her extensive teaching experience has been gained at various organizations, associations, colleges and universities, lecturing on undergraduate courses in shipping, maritime business and related subjects. She was actively involved in the courses delivered by SeaWorks Training & Consultancy (UK) in collaboration with the University of Athens – Kapodistriako (Greece), Lloyd’s Maritime Academy (UK) and the University of Middlesex (UK), Solent Southampton University (UK), London Metropolitan University (UK) and Maritime Colleges in Greece]. She has also established shipping departments and faculties for Colleges and Universities. She is also an Examiner for the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers in London. 

Her writing experience includes 30 distance learning books, papers in refereed journals and conferences. She has also served as a reviewer for Maritime Policy & Management Journal and she is currently a reviewer for Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering. 

Education and training with no on-hands experience means nothing to her, which explains why she was always undertaking consulting projects, as a shipping and/or logistics consultant. 

She is the first woman Course Director at Lloyd’s Maritime Academy and the first woman in Greece serving as the Head of the Shipping, Transport & Logistics Department at a College in Greece (which collaborated with a British University offering shipping and logistics undergraduate and postgraduate courses). She is invited as a speaker or moderator at international conferences and forums. She also mentoring shipping students at the University of Plymouth. 

Katerina has obtained her Phd from the University of Plymouth, titled as Maritime Policy and “The Success of Nations: The case of the Greek flagged Ocean Shipping”, being supervised by Professor Michael Roe and Professor Jingjing Xu. She holds a degree in Maritime Business and Maritime Law from the University of Plymouth (UK). Prior to this she studied Business & Finance at North Hertfordshire College (UK). Her postgraduate studies include International Shipping at the University of Plymouth (UK) and Maritime Studies with International Transport at the University of Piraeus (Greece). She has also obtained University teaching qualifications. 

Katerina is a member of the Women’s International Shipping & Trading Association (WISTA), the Hellenic Association of Maritime Economists (HAME), the International Maritime Lecturers’ Association (IMLA), the Piraeus Association for Maritime Arbitration (PAMA) and the Association of Greek Women Scientists (ΣΕΕ). She is a member of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee of the International WISTA, the Ambassador for the University of Plymouth and the Head of PYNDA Hellas.

Expertise: Crewing; Politics; Regulation; Vessel operation; Training; Supply chains; Careers; Marketing and communications; Mental Health and Wellbeing; LGBT+; Gender; Social mobility; Ethnicity and Race