Claire Wright
Business Economics Manager
Shell International
Claire Wright manages Shell's internal commercial shipping consultancy team, delivering strategic and investment advice to Shell businesses across the Group, enabling safe, competitively priced, efficient maritime solutions, which improve the competitiveness of Shell's current value chains and its ability to access new markets.
Shell Shipping & Maritime is responsible for ensuring that Shell's global shipping and maritime activities are safely managed, including ships, barges, drilling rigs, supply boats and the related operations that take place in some 130 ports and terminals around the world. Shipping & Maritime manages a number of Shell's oil tankers and an LNG vessel portfolio of around 37 LNG carriers, making Shell one of the largest LNG ship operators.
Claire began her career in shipping with Maersk before moving into consultancy, where she dealt with organisations ranging from NATO and the EU to shipping and energy companies. She has MSc degrees in Politics from the London School of Economics and in Environmental Management from the University of East Anglia.