Conferencia invitada

Safe, efficient and inexpensive shipping performs a crucial role in the global economy. In this keynote, Professor Stig Tenold discusses the innovations that have shaped maritime transportation over the past centuries. In addition to technological innovations, institutional and organizational innovations have been necessary to enable the enormous maritime trade that we see today. What have been the most important lessons from past innovations in shipping – and how can we use these lessons to ensure further improvements? In particular – how can we ensure that shipping develops in tandem with our goals of carbon neutrality.

Stig Tenold (born Bergen, 1970) is Professor of economic history at NHH Norwegian School of Economics. His main research areas are maritime history, maritime economics and East-Asian economic development. He received his dr.oecon.-degree from the NHH in 2001, with a thesis subsequently published in abbreviated form as Tankers in Trouble: Norwegian Shipping and the Crisis of the 1970s and 1980s.

Tenold has published more than 50 scientific articles and book chapters, primarily on shipping and shipbuilding. Among his many books are the Open Access publications Norwegian Shipping in the 20^th Century: Norway’s Successful Navigation of the World’s Most Global Industry and Shipping and Globalization in the Post-War Era: Contexts, Companies, Connections (edited with Petersson and White), both published by Palgrave Macmillan. 

Stig Tenold is currently Vice rector for academic affairs at NHH Norwegian School of Economics, with responsibility for the educational programmes. He is involved in a number of research projects with colleagues in Denmark, Finland, South Korea and the United Kingdom and has regularly given lectures and courses in maritime history and economics at other universities in Europe and Asia.