Mr. Benjamin Yongsheng Zhu currently works as Manager and Legal Officer, Office of the President at the World Maritime University (WMU). In this role, he provides executive support to the WMU President in several key areas, including executive management and coordination of IMO and UN system matters, legal and external relations, host country relations, communications, partnerships and development, strategic planning and implementation, resource mobilization as well as operations management. Mr. Zhu manages secretariat support to the WMU Governing Bodies (the Board of Governors, the Executive Board and the Committees) and leads the work of the Corporate Services Unit. Before joining WMU, Mr. Zhu served at the United Nations University (UNU) as Associate Executive Officer and Manager, Office of the Director where he provided executive and operations management support to the Director in establishing the UNU Institute in Dresden, Germany. He also worked as Manager, Procurement and Operations at the UNU in Bonn, Germany, managing shared procurement and operations services to seven UNU institutes and programmes (UN-Water Programme and International Human Dimension Programme) in Europe. Before his career at the UN, Mr. Zhu worked for various media institutions in Europe and China.