Maurice Kerr

Marine Infrastructure Manager

Maurice Kerr is Marine Infrastructure Manager at a government entity in the UAE whose name the organiser does not disclose. Managing marine infrastructure inside a government body differs from doing so inside an operating company: the body owns the asset without necessarily operating it, so long-term planning, specification setting, construction and maintenance contract management, and monitoring operator performance against commitments fall to it. Such assets include quays, breakwaters, navigation channels, periodic dredging and coastal protection, assets whose service life is measured in decades rather than years, so design decisions bind later generations.