Charles B. Anderson comes from a family with long maritime traditions.  His father, Commodore John W. Anderson, was for many years master of the Blue Riband superliner United States, and his grandfather, Capt. Charles R. Beard, was a steamboat pilot operating on the Tennessee and Ohio Rivers in the early 1900's. 

Mr. Anderson served on destroyers in the U.S. Navy and currently holds the rank of Commander in the US Naval Reserve.  He was educated at Columbia College and graduated in law from Columbia Law School.  He received a master's degree from Princeton University and was a George C. Marshall fellow at the University of Copenhagen under a grant from the American Scandinavian Foundation.

Since 1998 Mr. Anderson has been the head of Skuld North America Inc. (formerly Anchor Marine Claims Services),  North American representatives of Assuranceforeningen Skuld, a leading P&I Club based in Oslo, Norway.  Previously he was a partner in Haight, Gardner, Holland & Knight, an internationally recognized maritime and transportation law firm which he joined in 1980, and where he specialized in admiralty and environmental law.  In 1998 he was elected a Titulary Member of the Comité Maritime International in recognition of his work in the area of international shipping and environmental law.  He is also the co-author of Shipping and the Environment, published by Lloyd's of London Press in November, 1998, and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Columbia University, where he teaches admiralty law.