Accredited by The London Institute of Banking & Finance (LIBF)

Partner Institute: Tolani Maritime Institute

Navigating
Currents

An Executive Program in Marine Risk, Global Trade & Insurance

The challenge today is no longer simply understanding marine risk. It is understanding how that risk is changing, and what that means for the decisions ahead. Navigating Currents is curated for senior professionals who already know the fundamentals, and want to look beyond them, past clauses and wordings into data, AI, risk at scale and the changing shape of global trade.

Hours of live instruction

2 Hrs

Per live session, twice a week

Days experiential learning at a Maritime Institute

Explore the Program ↓ Schedule & Fee

Accreditation partner

Navigating Currents is accredited by The London Institute of Banking & Finance (LIBF) as meeting its requirements for effective CPD, and carries 20 CPD credit points on completion, recognised internationally as a mark of professional development in banking and finance.

You already know marine

This is about what comes next

Navigating Currents is not built to teach the fundamentals of marine insurance. It is built for professionals who already know them, and want to understand what comes next.

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Mastering clauses is table stakes now. What is being redrawn is everything around it.

The premise behind Navigating Currents

What you take back

Learning for what comes next

The programme is not about learning what you already know. It is about developing perspective beyond it. Subjects such as Mega Marine Claims, General Average, Marine Risk Engineering, CAT Accumulations and Multinational Programmes are not advanced versions of everyday marine work. They are different dimensions and scales of marine risk that experienced professionals rarely get to study together.

The changing marine & trade landscape

Explore how changing trade patterns, supply chains, geopolitical developments and evolving exposures are reshaping marine risk.

Awareness of data, digitalisation & AI

Understand where AI and technology are beginning to influence marine insurance and risk, what is changing, and what it could mean for the industry.

The documents behind marine transactions

Understand why Bills of Lading, Letters of Credit and other documents matter to marine transactions, trade finance and risk decisions.

Marine risk engineering

Go beyond conventional insurance perspectives to understand how physical risk and mitigation influence marine exposures.

Complex claims & risk at scale

Navigate General Average, jurisdiction, cargo disputes, CAT accumulations, multinational programmes and mega marine claims, viewed together rather than as isolated topics.

Emerging cargo & sector-specific risk

Understand the risk questions emerging around EVs and data centres, and how marine risk plays out differently in sectors such as pharma and e-commerce.

A perspective beyond your own function

Sales, underwriting, claims, operations, broking or risk: understand how each function connects around marine risk, and how the wider ecosystem sees the same exposure.

Experiential learning

Two Days at Tolani Maritime Institute

Beyond theory lies experience. At Tolani Maritime Institute, Talegaon, step into simulated scenarios that echo life at sea, engaging in case studies and conversations that sharpen judgement across the evolving marine risk, trade and insurance landscape.

Format

Practical & expert-led

Practical demonstrations, simulation exercises and expert-led sessions that classroom learning alone cannot replicate.

Cohort

Cross-ecosystem peers

Professionals from different parts of the marine and trade ecosystem, learning side by side.

Outcome

Concepts meet reality

An opportunity to connect concepts, physical realities and professional judgement.

🏨 Twin-sharing accommodation within the Tolani campus is included, with travel to and from the institute arranged by participants at their own cost.

Learn with peers

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Put this many senior professionals from across insurance, banking, shipping and trade in one room, and every conversation becomes a chance to trade perspective, test your own thinking, and leave knowing more than you walked in with.

What you gain from the room, not just the curriculum

Learn from leading practitioners

The Minds Navigating What's Next

Underwriters, claims leaders, risk engineers, lawyers and analysts from across the marine and trade ecosystem. Navigating Currents is built around practitioners who have worked with the risks, transactions, claims and decisions discussed in the program, giving participants exposure to different markets, functions and ways of looking at the same risk.

Program Captain

Sibesh Sen

Sibesh brings a career built inside the marine insurance business, including a long senior tenure at TATA AIG and HDFC ERGO, into the captain's role for this program. He sets the throughline across the program and leads key sessions himself, alongside a growing faculty of Indian and international expert practitioners. Sibesh is former IUMI member, renowned trainer himself and a prolific writer.

Experts from the Globe

Charles Smith

Partner, Clyde & Co LLP

Ishita Bhatia

Group Head of Specialty Pricing, QBE (Singapore)

Jai Sharma

Partner, Head of Cargo Casualty, Clyde & Co LLP

Neil Roberts

Head of Marine and Aviation, Lloyd's Market Association

Capt. Rahul Khanna

Global Head of Marine Risk Consulting, Allianz Commercial, New York

Veith Huesmann

Chief Analyst, IUMI (International Union of Marine Insurance)

Experts from India

Aniket Mehta

Senior Underwriter, Markel International

Anisha Udeshi

Joint Director, Marsh India Insurance Brokers Pvt. Ltd.

Capt. Cibeesh Balakrishnan

Service Delivery Lead, Allianz Risk Consulting India & Allianz Risk Consulting Operations India

Chintan Khanna

Banking Professional & Independent consultant associated with Moody’s, Fitch, ICC Academy in Singapore, LIBF and others

Leena Mody

General Average Specialist / Average Adjuster

Mehul Shah

Global Head - Risk, UPL Limited

Radhika Sharma

Claims Handler, Lawyer, A.P. Moller - Maersk

Sanjay Mokashi

General Manager, GIC Re

Taposh Nandi

Chief Claims Officer, Kiwi General Insurance Ltd

Who should attend

Built for the full marine insurance ecosystem

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Insurance & Risk Leaders

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Corporate Risk & Supply Chain Professionals

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Shipping & Logistics Professionals

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Banking & Trade Finance Professionals

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GCC Professionals

Program format

Designed for senior schedules

Live sessions structured so you never have to choose between your career and your development.

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Wednesday

7:00 – 9:00 PM

Live online · 2 hours

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Saturday

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Live online · 2 hours

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Duration

24 Hours

Live instruction

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Field Immersion

2 Days

At Tolani Maritime Institute

Navigating Currents October 2026 Cohort

₹49,000

+ GST

24 hours of live instruction, taught by Indian and international expert practitioners

Contemporary marine and global trade subjects, taught through practical, case-led learning

2-day experiential learning program at Tolani Maritime Institute

Access to a curated peer network of senior professionals

🏨 Twin-sharing accommodation during the Maritime Institute experience is included, with travel arranged by participants at their own cost.

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