Shipping industry and current affairs expert Gavin W Roser is a charismatic and highly engaging speaker whose presentations are informative and entertaining. If you think shipping doesn’t interest or affect you be prepared to be surprised! Gavin is Ambassador at Large at the European Freight & Logistics Leaders Forum (F & L), a Brussels based think tank that brings together major shippers and transport providers from 17 countries to look at best practice across the global supply chain. Gavin has been in the shipping & logistics sector industry for 47+ years, and in this time has seen remarkable changes in one of the few industries that operate regardless of national boundaries.
He has been Managing Director of a major ship agency, Chairman of a joint venture in the Falklands, Maritime Advisor to the National Shipping Line of Iran and a Maritime Consultant at the centre of the privatisation of the shipping industry of New Zealand that earned him a reputation as ‘Roser the Razer’.
Back in his own hemisphere Gavin lead a rail freight organisation to win the coveted IFW award as European Rail Freight Operator of the year, was Vice Consul for Norway in his home city Glasgow. A keen member of The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Gavin is also Past President of the Scottish Shipping Benevolent Association, a 115-year-old maritime charity, and a member of the Management Board of the European Agency for Railways based in France. He also runs his own maritime consultancy firm. Clients included the Scottish Government on developing new approaches to moving vital freight to the Scottish islands, and through F & L presented a paper for the International Transport Forum {OECD} on sustainability.
As passionate about educating as presenting Gavin also works with maritime universities in northern Europe, promoting new thinking in maritime education for all ages, whilst also encouraging graduates to explore career opportunities in the shipping industry. He has also addressed sixth form pupils at schools focussing on career opportunities in global logistics with a focus on the maritime sector.
Gavin interviews well-known figures (available on YouTube). Some recorded:
- President of World Population Institute Robert Walker in Washington DC
- Romano Prodi tenth Head of the European Commission and former Prime Minister of Italy
- Sir Malcolm Rifkind former UK Foreign Secretary
- Josef Doffelbauer Executive Director European Agency for Railways
- Deodat Maharaj Executive Director Caribbean Export Development ASghency in Barbados
- Wang Mingfeng President Cosco shipping Europe