Despina Panayiotou Theodosiou

Despina Panayiotou Theodosiou is joint CEO of TOTOTHEO MARITIME, a leading global service provider specializing in innovative, efficient, and functional solutions in the fields of maritime satellite communications, digitalization, automation, and navigation systems. She is President of Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association with her involvement being instrumental to WISTA’s success in receiving consultative status at the International Maritime Organization (IMO). She is a board member of the Cyprus Shipping Chamber, the Cyprus Employers and Industrialists Federation, the Limassol Chamber of Commerce and Industry and she sits on the Board of Governors of the Cyprus Maritime Academy.In July 2020, she was elected as a Member to the General committee of the Association of SA and Limited Companies in Greece and as Head of its Shipping Sector committee. Leading international shipping publication Lloyd’s List selected Despina as one of the Top 100 Most Influential people in shipping in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021. In 2019 she was also named as the “International Personality of the Year” at the Lloyd’s List Greek Shipping Awards. She holds degrees from the National and Capodistrian University of Athens, the Copenhagen Business School, and the University of Oxford.