Elizabeth Simmons

Captain Elizabeth B. Simmons is Vice President of External Affairs at Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Buzzards Bay, where she leads strategy for the Academy Foundation and manages the Academy's relationships with government, industry and its alumni network. A 1997 graduate of the Academy in Marine Safety and Environmental Protection, she worked in the environmental and human resources fields before returning in 2002. For close to twenty years she ran Admissions and Enrollment, growing the student body and the number of women and minority cadets.

She holds a master's degree in Facilities Engineering and a Doctor of Law and Policy from Northeastern University. She sits on the Massachusetts Seaport Economic Council, to which she was reappointed in January 2026, and on the board of the Ship Operators Cooperative Program, and is a past President of the New England chapter of WISTA USA.

She is a panellist at the 7th Super Yacht Americas 2026.