Speakers

Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen
Chief Executive Officer
DNV - Maritime
Hamburg, Germany


Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen is the CEO of DNV - Maritime and a member of the Executive Board of DNV GL SE.


He was appointed CEO of DNV GL - Maritime in August 2015 and prior to that he had been the Chief Operating Officer and President of DNV GL - Maritime and Director of Division Europe, Africa & Americas.


After joining DNV in Oslo, in 1990, Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen worked in DNV's core business areas serving the maritime and oil & gas industries. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he was awarded a First Class Honour's Degree in Civil Engineering in 1990