Somali Piracy Leaders

Managing Director & CEO Hans Tino Hansen gave a presentation on Somali piracy leaders and how they have developed from the early starters in the 1990s over the "entrepreneurs" in the early 2000s developing piracy and hijack for ransom as a "business model". The majority of piracy leaders coming into piracy after 2008 have mostly emerged from the lieutenants of the first "entrepreneurs". The main message of the presentation was that until the international forces fighting piracy understands that most of these leaders should be seen as dynamic "entrepreneurs", they will be able to maintain the initiative and constantly be one step ahead of the anti-piracy efforts.