Classification and compliance experts Lloyd’s Register (LR) work to ensure all registered vessels are safely operated, and we caught up with Chief Operations Officer Mark Darley to explore his perspectives on the maritime industry. 

You’ve had quite an extensive career. Can you tell us about it? 

My degree is in Naval Architecture and Offshore Engineering, which I studied at Strathclyde University. I joined LR, initially as an engineering intern whilst still at university and then onto the LR graduate programme. That was more than 20 years ago, and in the intervening years, my career with the organisation has taken me all over the world, having lived and worked in six different countries spanning four different continents before my current role as LR’s Chief Operations Officer. 

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