Robert G. Shaw is a managing director of Sea Trade Holdings Inc., which makes investments in dry bulk shipping. He has served as an independent director of Höegh LNG Partners L.P., listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and as a director of The Steamship Mutual Underwriting Association (Bermuda) Limited.
Shaw is a past president and a member of the board of governors of the Society of Maritime Arbitrators, Inc., and was the president of Navios Maritime Holdings, Inc. He practiced maritime and corporate law as an associate, and later as a partner, at the law firm of Healy & Baillie, LLP in New York City. He served as the U.S. representative member of the Documentary Committee of the Baltic and International Council and is a former chairman and former president of the Hellenic American Chamber of Commerce. Shaw received his degree from the University of Oxford in 1977.