Dr Kirsi Tikka
Dr. Kirsi Tikka has actually tipped down as Executive Vice President as well as Senior Maritime Advisor at American Bureau of Shipping (ABDOMINAL).
Effective September 2, 2019 she will certainly end up being an independent non-executive supervisor of Hong Kong based Handysize as well as Supramax completely dry bulker expert Pacific Basin Shipping.
Under her solution arrangement with Pacific Basin, Dr.Tikka will certainly obtain HK$ 650,000 (concerning US$ 83,000) every year.
Dr Tikka operated at ABS from September 2001 till July 2019. She began as Vice President, Engineering, as well as ultimately held duties that includedVP, Global Technology, Business Development as well as Special Projects (2005-2011); VP as well as Chief Engineer, Global (2011-2012); President as well as Chief Operating Officer, ABDOMINAL Europe Division, Executive Vice President, Global Marine (2016-2018); as well as Executive Vice President as well as Senior Maritime Advisor (2018-2019).
Prior to signing up with ABS,Dr Tikka was teacher of Naval Architecture at Webb Institute from 1996 to 2001, before that, she functioned as a marine engineer, procedures coordinator as well as expert for Chevron Shipping from 1989 to 1995, as well as for Wärtsilä Shipyards from 1980 to 1983. Her maritime profession covers almost 4 years living as well as operating in New York, London, San Francisco as well as Turku,Finland Dr. Tikka holds a doctorate in Naval Architecture as well as Offshore Engineering, as well as master’s levels in Naval Architecture as well as Offshore Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley as well as Mechanical Engineering, Solid Mechanics as well as Naval Architecture from the University of Technology,Helsinki She is a Fellow of both the Society of Naval Architects as well as Marine Engineers (SNAME), as well as the Royal Institution of Naval Architects 9RINA”), established in 1860. In 2012, she was granted SNAME’s David W. Taylor Medal, its highest possible technological honor for marine style as well as aquatic design.
In 2018, she was granted an honorary doctorate of scientific research by the Webb Institute,New York She is presently likewise a Foreign Member of the UNITED STATE National Academy of Engineering, as well as a participant of the U.K. Women in Maritime Task Force.
