Shiara Stevens Kelly is a lawyer by profession, she works as Commercial Chief of the Maritime Policy Bureau, Head of the Internationalization Department of the PortMujer Network and Technical Director of PorTequidad.

She has been president of the Communications Committee of the International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH), was deputy director of the Legal Advisory Office of the Panama Maritime Authority, Technical Advisor and Alternate Permanent Representative of the Permanent Mission of Panama to the International Maritime Organization, based in London. , Co-coordinator of the working table for the development of the strategy to reduce greenhouse gases from maritime transport ships as a response to the action plan against climate change of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.