Andreas Andreou

Andreas-Andreou

Overview

A graduate of the Faculty of Economics and Accounting of the City University of London, Andreas holds a MSc degree in Shipping Trade and Finance, from the Cass Business School, London and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers of the United Kingdom.

Working at Columbia Shipmanagement Ltd, Cyprus since 1990; he currently holds the position of Group Director Insurance and Claims as part of Columbia’s Top Management and is responsible for insurance related matters for all the group companies as well as ship registration and ship sale and purchase projects. As of 2017 he deals with a number of corporate risks such as Data Protection, for which he holds the position of the Group Data Protection Officer (DPO) and Sanctions Compliance. Since 2008, he has also assumed responsibility for all seafarers’ union and International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) related matters. He also held the position of Deputy Marketing Director for the five year period of 2008-2013.

Outside of his responsibilities for Columbia, Andreas sits on a number of shipping related committees and boards. He is a participating Member on the Committee of the Norwegian Hull Club, a Director and Vice-Chairman on the board of Cyprus International Business Association and Chairman of the Insurance and Legal Committee of Intertanko.

Since 2014 he is being elected/appointed as Director on the Board of the International Maritime Employers’ Council. He participates as a member of the Employers’ negotiating team at the International Bargaining Forum (IBF) central negotiations and in various other regional union negotiations.

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