Shipping, trade and finance award
< Back to university newsA new prize sponsored by the Onassis Public Benefit Foundation has been launched by the Centre for Shipping, Trade and Finance at City University's Cass Business School in London. The $250,000 Onassis Prize in Shipping, Trade and Finance will be awarded biennially starting in 2008, and will recognise lifetime contributions to the subject by leading academics.
Professor Costas Grammenos, the inspiration behind the prize, said, "Onassis is a legend in shipping, trade and finance, and these are the subjects we research and teach at Cass. The City of London has been the principal international hub for shipping, trade and finance over the last three centuries and is a fitting home for the Onassis Prize." The International Centre for Shipping, Trade and Finance was founded at London's Cass Business School in 1983 to provide the first specialist MSc degrees in these disciplines.
The Centre has undertaken pioneering research in shipping finance, shipping risk management, commodity trade and finance and logistics. It has also established a platform for international dialogue between academics, businessmen and policy makers.
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Posted: Tuesday 9 February 2010