- Bachelor of Business Administration from University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Master of Business Administration from Babson College
- Business Administration Coordinator teaching a wide range of business subjects at Cape Cod Community College
- Visiting lecturer at University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth and Bridgewater State University
Dr. Marina Brock
Assistant Professor, Emergency Management Department
Coordinator, Emergency and Risk Management Concentration and Minor
Dr. Marina Brock is an Assistant Professor in the Emergency Management Department at Massachusetts Maritime Academy, bringing 17 years of higher education experience and over 25 years of service as an Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) Specialist with the Barnstable County Department of Health and Environment. Her interdisciplinary expertise spans EHS, Occupational Safety and Health (OSH), Public Health, Environmental Science, and Emergency Management.
Dr. Brock is the lead faculty coordinator for the Academy’s newly established Emergency and Risk Management Concentration and Minor, which integrates applied and theoretical perspectives on risk identification, hazard control, and enterprise risk management. Through this work, she helps prepare students across disciplines to anticipate, assess, and respond to complex and interconnected risks within public and private sector systems.
Her academic and professional work focuses on advancing local and regional government initiatives by promoting the development and implementation of Safety and Risk Management Systems. She provides assessments, training, compliance guidance, and strategic planning support to public sector facilities, with a strong emphasis on system-based solutions for sustainable risk reduction and operational resilience.
Dr. Brock holds a B.A. in Environmental Economics from Simmons University, an M.S. in Occupational Health and Safety Engineering from Columbia Southern University, and a Ph.D. in Emergency and Protective Services from Capitol Technology University. Her research focuses on identifying operational gaps and barriers to the implementation of Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) competency, and she is committed to evolving and evaluating strategies that enhance safety culture and enterprise-wide risk management frameworks.
She has authored and co-authored several articles, lectured widely across New England, and served as a mentor to both students and professionals. Her contributions have earned her numerous accolades, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Excellence Award and the Massachusetts Governor’s Award for Toxics Use Reduction. Her innovative prevention and mitigation initiatives have served as national models for public agencies.
A recognized leader in cross-sector collaboration, Dr. Brock was nominated for the Harvard Kennedy School’s Innovations in Government Award and appointed Member and eventually Chair of the EPA Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) in 2016. In this role, she represented U.S. local government interests in environmental and safety policy matters under the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) as part of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
Dr. Brock continues to engage students in applied research, promoting the development of critical skills in safety systems, risk communication, and integrated enterprise risk management, fostering the next generation of risk-aware, solution-oriented professionals.
Education: B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison; J.D., cum laude, University of Wisconsin-Madison, M.A., with distinction, U.S. Naval War College
A U.S. Coast Guard veteran, she has led pollution response, incident command, and critical infrastructure protection efforts across domestic and international waters. She holds a Master’s in Homeland Security from Northeastern University and a B.S. in Marine Environmental Science from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
- Bachelor of Science from St. Xavier's College, India
- Master of Science in Statistics from Indian Statistical Institute, India
- Ph.D in Economics from Princeton University, USA
- Professor Ani Dasgupta teaches Microeconomics, Finance and Quantitative Methods of Management. He also serves as the faculty advisor of the Academy's Business/Investment club. He joined the Academy at the time of the inception of the International Maritime Business department and served as its first chairperson. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Economics Department at Boston University, where since 2004, he has taught graduate statistics and econometrics courses. In the past, he has served as full-time faculty at Penn State University, visiting faculty at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and adjunct faculty at Tufts University.
- Outside academia, Dr. Dasgupta has worked as the chief economist of a dotcom, and provided consulting services in the areas of economics and operations to companies. His research publications have appeared in prestigious journals such as Management Science, Journal of Economic Theory and International Journal of Game Theory, and he is involved with ongoing research projects in the areas of Game Theory and Labor Economics.
- Beyond professional activities, he plays the guitar and drums, writes fiction and poetry and manages to waste countless hours playing chess on the internet.
