Company: DSX-PB
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001562762-25-000050
Chunk: 174

Company: DIANA SHIPPING INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 6
Chunk 174
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 & Wuppertal

and

a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Tubingen University in Germany.

Kyriacos Riris

has served

as a

Director of

Diana Shipping

Inc. since

March 2015

and a

member of

its

Nominating Committee since May 2015. From May 2022, he is also the Chairman of the Audit Committee

of the Company.

Commencing in 1998, Mr. Riris served

in a series

of positions in PricewaterhouseCoopers

(PwC), Greece,

including Senior

Partner, Managing

Partner of

the Audit

and the

Advisory/Consulting

Lines of

Service. From

2009 to 2014, Mr.

Riris served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC),

Greece. Prior to its

merger with PwC, Mr.

Riris was employed at

Grant Thornton, Greece, where

in 1984

he

became

a

Partner.

From

1976

to

1982,

Mr.

Riris

was

employed

at

Arthur

Young,

Greece.

Since

November

2018,

Mr.

Riris

has

served

as

Chairman

of

Titan

Cement

International

S. A.,

a

Belgian

corporation, while he

is currently the

Vice Chairman of

the Board and

the Chairman of

the Audit and

the

Risk Committee of the Group.

Mr.

Riris

holds

a

degree

from

Birmingham

Polytechnic

(presently

Birmingham

City

University)

and

completed his professional qualifications with the Association of

Certified Chartered Accountants (ACCA)

in the UK in 1975, becoming a Fellow of the Association of Certified

Accountants in 1985.

Apostolos Kontoyannis

is a Director, the Chairperson

of the Compensation

Committee and a

member of

the Audit Committee of Diana

Shipping Inc., positions he has

held since March 2005.

Since March 2021,

Mr. Kontoyannis also serves as the Chairperson of the Sustainability Committee of the Company.

Mr.

Kontoyannis has

over

40

years

of

experience

in

shipping

finance

and

currently

serves

as