Dr Rosalie Balkin AO is Secretary-General of Comité Maritime International. Previously she was Director of Legal Affairs and External Relations at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) (London). While she held this position she also served as Secretary of IMO’s Legal Committee and for a time also as IMO’s Assistant Secretary-General. Before this she was Assistant Secretary in the Office of International Law at the Federal Attorney-General’s Department in Canberra, Australia. She has held academic posts, including at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa; at Melbourne and New South Wales Universities in Australia; and at the University of Cambridge, UK.
In 2018, Dr Balkin was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for “distinguished service to maritime law through roles with a range of organisations, to the improvement of global shipping transport safety and standards, and to education as an academic and author”.
