With over 17 years of academic experience, Carmen brings strong expertise in digital marketing, strategic communication, and customer relationship management. She previously served as Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Marketing at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies (2020–2024), where she was responsible for student affairs and partnerships with the business community.

At Bucharest Business School, she contributes to the coordination of executive education initiatives. Her international academic exposure includes teaching and research mobility projects in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Hungary, Slovenia, and Croatia.

Experienced leader with +20 years of leadership experience across multiple industries managing multi-cultural and global located teams within strategy, GenAI, project management/management consultancy, communication, analytics, finance, port merger integrations and large-scale capital investments. Started career as an energy, shipping and raw-material trader/bioenergy developer following a career with within finance and sourcing of R&D services in the pharma industry. Currently, employed as Vice President, Strategy, Portfolio Management and Analytics in a top tier global pharmaceutical company. Educational track-record: eMBA in Shipping & Logistics Copenhagen University, MSc studies from Copenhagen University and Oxford University. Serve on Boards and advisory committees in United Kingdom and Denmark.

Master Mariner with a long experience as an officer and captain in the Swedish merchant navy. Later, more than 30 years’ experience within the shipping and port industry as managing director and later as board member in transport and logistical companies and in several ports.
Mr Karlsson has been an originator and initiator of the development of the Scandinavian port industry and has been responsible for several efficiency-increasing mergers of ports, stevedores and terminal operators. The last being the merger of the ports of Copenhagen and Malmö into the jointly owned and operated Copenhagen Malmö Port AB.
As a chairman and board member of ports he has focused on designing, construction, financing and developments of ports in Scandinavia and abroad.

More than 30 years of experience with finance and economics, of which 25 years is with management. Since 2014 I have worked as CFO at Port of Esbjerg. Originally educated auditor, worked at KPMG for 6 years. Many years of experience as Finance Manager in different industrial companies, whit full responsibility for finance, IT and HR as well as responsible for the legal aspects of corporate contracts.

Also been Global Finance Manager in two international groups, with production facilities in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe (Romania) and China. Here I had both direct and matrix management across companies and national borders. In my current job, I am heavily involved in financing large projects and constructions, digitalization and optimization using various IT tools, and not least protection against cybercrime, which is increasingly a part of everyday life.

Napo Ramodibedi is the founder and Executive Chairman of the Mendi Group of companies, headquartered in Johannesburg South Africa and with branches in 5 countries throughout Africa. He is also the Chairman of the Blue MBA Association at Copenhagen Business School in Denmark.

Napo is a maritime lawyer by profession and holds, amongst others, a masters in maritime law and an Executive MBA in shipping and logistics from Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Napo is a certified Blue Board professional, having completed the specialized board training program for shipping companies at Copenhagen Business School.
Napo is highly specialized in shipping and logistics, with a particular specialization on critical minerals logistics throughout Africa. He also has extensive experience in maritime law and international trade law. Napo focuses on pit-to-port logistics for critical minerals, including port operations and expansions required to support the increased demand for critical minerals being shipped out of Africa, in contrast to the traditionally smaller, shallow draft ports across many African States.