Company: DSX-PB
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001562762-25-000050
Chunk: 176

Company: DIANA SHIPPING INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 6
Chunk 176
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a

Sale

and

Purchase

broker.

He

joined

Braemar

Shipbrokers

Ltd

(now

Braemar

ACM

Shipbroking) in 1983 becoming

a director in 1986

and remained on the

board until his retirement

in August

2021.

During

this

time

Braemar

grew

from

a

boutique

broking

operation

into

one

of

the

world’s

most

successful fully integrated shipbroking companies with a listing on

the London Stock Exchange.

Mr. Morecroft graduated from Oxford University in 1980 with a Masters in PPE.

Jane Chao

has served

as a

Director of

Diana Shipping

Inc. since

February 2023.

She also

serves as

a

director of

Wah

Kwong Shipping

Holdings Limited,

a position

she has

held since

2008. Ms.

Chao is

the

managing

director

of

Wah

Kwong

China

Investment

which

comprises

of

residential

and

commercial

properties in Shanghai.

Ms. Chao has founded

her own art consultancy

company Galerie Huit and

lifestyle

gallery Maison Huit in 2009 and recently, the non-profit Chao-Lee Art Foundation in 2022.

Ms.

Chao

has

also

served

as

a

Council

Member

for

Changing

Young

Lives

Foundation

helping

underprivileged children in Hong Kong and China from 2014 to 2020.

Maria Dede

is the Co-Chief Financial Officer of Diana Shipping Inc. since January 2025. Prior to this role,

Ms. Dede served as the Company’s Chief Accounting Officer starting in September 2005. In addition, Ms.

Dede has served

as the Co-Chief

Financial Officer of

Diana Shipping Services S. A.

since January 2025,

having previously served as the

company’s Finance Manager and Chief

Accounting Officer.

In 2000, Ms.

Dede joined the Athens branch of Arthur Andersen, which merged with Ernst and Young (Hellas) in 2002,

where she served as an external

auditor of shipping companies until 2005. From

1996 to 2000 Ms. Dede

was

employed