Hans Peters is the founder of Baltic Maritime Advisor - a multi-disciplinary international partnership that comprises a global network of investment bankers, project advisers, and industry specialists who assist clients worldwide in various shipping and port sectors. He is also a professor at George-Mason-University (Virginia) teaching graduate courses related to seatrade, maritime transport, and ports, as well as logistics management, project finance, and multimodal transport systems.
Hans Peters used to be a principal of Transport and Maritime Industries for the World Bank and Transport Advisor of International Finance Corporation (IFC). His responsibilities included formulation of support strategies for the maritime sector, especially ports, and freight transport industries in the Bank's borrowing member countries; coordination of all World Bank group lending and advisory services related to shipping, ports, and trade/industry logistics management; and operational support in these activities to all work units in the Bank's six Regional Vice-Presidencies and the IFC. In this capacity incumbent also acted as primary liaison contact for all international organizations associated with the maritime sector, and for the maritime industries at large.
EDUCATION: Civil Engineering with emphasis on transport systems management (Universities of Darmstadt and Kiel, Germany; Graz, Austria--Diplom-Ingenieur) and transport economics (University of California at Berkeley--Master of Science; PhD candidate). Business administration courses organized by the World Bank. Corporate and financial management (Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia--Certificate).

LANGUAGES: English, French, German, Spanish (full proficiency); Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Portuguese (elementary).