Speakers

Angus Mckenzie has joined the government as a councillor of the city of Cape Town since August 2016.

Mr. Joohwan Jung serves as Chief Executive Officer at Kakao Mobility.

Mary Crass is Head of Institutional Relations and Summit for the Paris-based International Transport Forum, an intergovernmental organisation linked to the OECD. She is responsible for the ITF’s relations with Member countries, international organisations and associations, and the annual International Transport Forum Summit in Leipzig each May https://www.itf-oecd.org/. She has contributed to the organisation’s work on sustainable urban travel, accessible transport and social inclusion, and crime and terrorism issues in transport. She served as sherpa to the ITF Secretary General on the United Nations Secretary General’s High-Level Advisory Group on Sustainable Urban Transport, and was on the drafting committee for the final report of that group delivered to UN Secretary General in October 2016.

She recently chaired the International Road Transport Association’s (IRU) Future of the Taxi Reflection Group and is currently co-chair of the Transportation Research Board’s Accessible Transportation Committee - subcommittee on Policy and Practice.

Prior to joining the OECD, Ms. Crass worked as a private consultant focusing on transport and environment issues for among others the UN Environment Programme, the European Commission and OECD, as well as private enterprise. She was previously with a U.S.-based environmental consulting firm specialising in environmental technical assistance work in developing countries and emerging economies.

Ms. Crass has a Masters Degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) with specialisations in international economics and energy and environment policy and a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin.

Saša Dalipagić was born on 20 May 1950 in Kakanj. He attended primary and secondary school (Gymnasium) in Mostar and graduated from the Road Transport College in Zagreb in 1975 earning the degree as road transport engineer. 

1997 – 2015 until he was appointed Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Communications and Transport of Bosnia and Herzegovina he worked with the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton as Inspector for Road Traffic and Supervision of the Construction and Maintenance of Road Infrastructure. He has also been engaged as Traffic Court-Appointed Expert, having completed in that capacity a large number of expert reports for the courts in this Canton.

His Excellency Dr. Eng. Abdulla  Al-Nuaimi joined the Federal Government in 2013 as Minister of infrastructure Development, which is responsible of developing the infrastructure of the federal state road networks and federal buildings (schools, hospitals, government buildings, research centers, cultural and sports centers, police stations and civil defense, housing for the citizens, and other governmental projects).

Beside his responsibilities as a Minister Dr. Eng. Abdulla Al-Nuaimi is Chairman of Sheikh Zayed Housing Program and also he is a Chairman of Federal Transport Authority. 

Dr. Eng. Abdulla Al Nuaimi holds a Ph.D. degree in Construction Management from the University Of Reading, UK (1990), and a Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin in USA (1980). Among his hobbies playing tennis, swimming and reading.

Secretary Elaine L. Chao is the U.S. Secretary of Transportation. She also served as U.S. Secretary of Labor, the first Asian American woman appointed to the President's cabinet in American history. Prior to the Department of Labor, Secretary Chao was President and Chief Executive Officer of United Way of America.

She has also served as Deputy Maritime Administrator; Chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission; Deputy U.S. Secretary of Transportation; and, Director of the Peace Corps.  She earned her MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Dr Amani Abou-Zeid is the African Union Commissioner in charge of Infrastructure, Energy, ICT and Tourism.

For more than 30 years, Commissioner Abou-Zeid has served in leadership positions in international organisations, such as the African Development Bank, UNDP and USAID, with a focus on infrastructure and energy programmes. Over her career, she has amassed a remarkable mix of experience from across Africa, France, UK and Canada and worked across constituencies and with wide array of stakeholders.

An Egyptian national, Dr Abou-Zeid has a multi-disciplinary academic training: B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University; an MBA in project management from the French University for African Development (Université Senghor); a Masters of Public Administration MC/MPA from Harvard School of Government; and a Ph.D. in Social and Economic Development from The University of Manchester, UK. She also has a degree in Arts from Université Sorbonne-Paris IV.

Li Xiaopeng is serving as the Minister of Transport of the P.R. China. He is the former chief executive of China Huaneng Group, a power generation company. He was also Governor of Shanxi between 2012 and 2016.

Rana Kortam is the Global Head of Women’s Safety Public Policy for Uber. She leads the company’s efforts around the issue, working with governments, researchers, NGO’s, as well as local policy teams in over 60 countries Uber operates in. Her passion is ensuring women find a safe ride and a flexible way to earn income in Uber.

A born and raised Egyptian, she previously led public policy for Uber in Egypt, shaping the future of regulation for the budding tech ecosystem.

A techie at heart, Rana graduated Summa Cum Laude from the American University in Cairo with a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering. Prior to joining Uber, she led developer relations for Google in the Middle East and Africa, before managing public policy for British American Tobacco in North Africa. Straddling the worlds of tech and policy, and a serious zeal for everything women empowerment, she is an expert in several public policy issues, including women’s mobility and safety, gender based violence especially in transport and public spaces, gender equality and economic enablement.

Katja Schechtner is an urban scientist who holds a dual appointment between MIT and OECD to develop new technologies and shape innovative policies to keep cities on the move.

Currently she focuses on the future of algorithmic governance - and what it will mean for cities and citizens’ mobility when the legal code is fully implemented in digital code. She also leads ITF’s work on global regulation for drones – in order to ensure their acceptance and integration with the overall transport system and her passion for creating inclusive growth is reflected in the report she will be presenting at the summit: “Expanding Innovation Horizons – Learning from Transport Solutions in the Global South”.  

Previously she worked at the Asian Development Bank implementing transport technology projects across Asia; formulated smart public space strategies for the Inter-American Development Bank in Costa Rica and Argentina; advised the EU Commission on Smart City programs and headed the applied research lab for Dynamic Transportation Systems at the Austrian Institute of Technology.

Katja has published widely, both in scientific journals and the popular press in the US, Asia and Europe, including two books: “Accountability Technologies – Tools for Asking Hard Questions” and “Inscribing a Square – Urban Data as Public Space”, (Birkhaeuser, 2012 and 2014). She is an advisor to start-ups in the urban, mobility and crypto industries in the US and Europe and to city planning authorities, mainly in Europe and Asia. 

Her work has been exhibited globally at venues such as Venice Architecture Biennale, MAK , Cooper Hewitt and ars electronica. She also holds a Visiting Professorship at Technical University Vienna and curates urban tech exhibitions across the globe. Most recently her project to design and implement contemporary e-trikes in Nepal and Laos was awarded in the Fast Company World Changing Ideas 2018 transportation track and she will exhibit her work on Manila’s smart urban lighting at the Seoul Urbanism Biennale in fall 2019. 

Mr. Jeong Ryeol Kim was appointed as Vice Minister for Transport, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of Korea in April 2018. Having joined the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport from 1989, he has been in senior positions in Transport and Logistics, Road, Public Housing Construction, Policy Planning, as well as Public Agency Relocation departments. He also has experience as visiting professor in Portland State University, USA in 2015, as well as seconded to Urban Housing Office in Gyeonggi Provincial Government, Korea.

With over 20 years’ international experience in the technology and transportation and sectors, Sharon Masterson currently works with the International Transport Forum (ITF)  at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), an intergovernmental organisation of 59 member countries to facilitate global dialogue for better transport. In her role with the Corporate Partnership Board, the ITF’s platform for engaging with the private sector, she works with leading global enterprises to ensure transport policy discussions are enriched with a business perspective. Prior to joining the OECD in 2009, she spent ten years in commercial and operational management positions in Groupe Air France, Paris and Dublin and worked as Area Manager Benelux for a company supporting US tech companies launch in Europe. She worked as Business Development Manager in a tech startup and has also spent a number of years in Germany at Würth GmbH & Co. KG.

Lamia Kerdjoudj-Belkaid is the Secretary General of FEPORT, the Federation of European Private Port Operators and Terminals since March 2014. She has a professional experience of more than 19 years during which she held different positions within the maritime and logistics sector.  Among others, she has been for more than seven year the Public Affairs manager of the French Shipowners' Organization. Between 2009 and 2012, she has also been appointed as a senior expert and advisor in the framework of several European projects financed by different DGs of the European Commission. She has also worked for private companies and corporations (among others Capmarine, Budd SA, CATRAM, EGIS) and has been in charge of consulting and business development assignments for large multinational companies. She is since 12 years a lecturer in Business schools in France and Germany in the field of stakeholders' management and multilateral negotiations.

Marc HAMY is an alumnus of Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) de la rue d’Ulm and a civil aviation engineer, with a post-graduate diploma from the French national school for civil aviation (ENAC) and a Master degree from the University of Paris Dauphine. He has an important background in aviation, transports, economy, and politics, with many senior executive positions.

He has been successively:

- deputy CFO of DSNA, the French air navigation services provider,
- General Manager of the two air traffic control centres of the south of France,
- Director of the civil aviation authority in the French Pacific territories,
- CEO of DSNA (8000 employees and a turn-over of 1 Billion Euros a year),
- Chief of Staff of the French Minister for Transports,
- deputy Chief of Staff of the Minister for Energy, Transports and Environment,
- COO of Airbus ProSky
- Vice-President, Air Transport and Public Affairs, Airbus SAS.

He is a founding member of the SESAR Joint undertaking, and of the EGNOS SSP, and contributed to create Airbus ProSky in 2010, three companies developing new technologies and services in aviation and space. He is holder of the Legion of Honour, of the National Order of Merit and of the Medal of aeronautics.

 Mr Li is based in Hong Kong and is responsible for three functional areas: development and execution monitoring of MTR’s corporate strategy, development and delivery of corporate-level innovation programs, and management of Information Technology services.  Prior to joining the MTR, he was a Managing Director at Accenture, with leadership roles across numerous practices, including Consulting, Technology, Digital and Operations in the Asia Pacific region.  Mr. Li graduated from University of California in Los Angeles USA with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science.

Philippe Delleur is Senior Vice President Public Affairs in Alstom. Between 2011 and 2015 he was SVP International Network and President of Alstom International. He joined Alstom in 2006 as Senior Vice President South Europe-Africa- Middle East, then SVP Latin America and President of Alstom Brazil. Before joining Alstom he worked for 23 years in the French Ministry of Economy and Finances, notably as Managing Director of the Public Procurement Agency, Deputy Secretary of Trade and member of staff of the Minister of Economy and Finance, Michel Sapin. He is a graduate of the ENA (French National School of Administration), Sciences Po Paris and holds a Law Degree.

Hongjoo Hahm joined ESCAP in January 2016 as the Deputy Executive Secretary for Programmes. He served as Acting Executive Secretary from May to December 2018. Prior, he worked at the World Bank in various positions - as Senior Advisor to the Water Global Practice Group; Country Manager for the Balkans; Head of the Infrastructure Unit in the World Bank Office in Jakarta (transport, energy, urban, and water and sanitation sectors); and Program Manager for the post-tsunami reconstruction of Aceh, post-earthquake Yogyakarta, and flood mitigation in Jakarta. Hongjoo Hahm worked at Goldman Sachs LLC as the Global Head for Central Banks, Official Institutions and Sovereign Wealth Funds for five years. He also worked at the Asian Development Bank, the Korea Development Institute, and taught economics at New York University, Queens College, and the City University of New York.

Hongjoo Hahm graduated from Cairo American College, received his B.A. from the College of William and Mary; M.Phil from the London School of Economics; and Ph.D. from New York University. He has an Executive MBA from Harvard Business School and a diploma from the Cambridge University Programme for Sustainable Development. He also graduated from Korea’s Third Military Academy and was commissioned as an officer in the Korean Army.

Rafał Weber is responsible for matters related to road transport, public roads and road safety. Since 2015, he is a member of the Parliament. There, he is a member of the parliamentary committee of infrastructure and national defense commissions.

From 2014 he was the deputy director of the Provincial Traffic Center in Tarnobrzeg (Poland). In 2010-2014 and 2014-2015, the councilor of the City Council in Stalowa Wola (Poland). Mr. Weber is a graduate of the Higher School of Law and Administration in Rzeszów (Poland)

Jaeho Lee has been a Director of Digital Economy Institute of Kakao Mobility. The company is the number one mobility platform of Republic of Korea, providing services of taxi hailing, navigation, parking, designated driver, and electric bike sharing. As of April 2019, the number of registered users is more than 22 million.  

Jaeho is also a member of the Technology Commercialization Advisory Board and the Industry-Academia Networks Forum of Korean Government. He worked for Hyundai Research Institute, Hyundai Motor Company, and LGCNS as an economist and consultant. His specialties include digital economy, O2O business, automotive industry, and industrial policies. 

Paulo Humanes is Head of Global Strategic Business Development at PTV Planung Transport Verkehr AG, a German company specialising in software solutions and consulting services for traffic and transportation, mobility, and logistics. His international career includes over a decade in the UK in transport planning with Stirling Maynard and as Technical Director in Jacobs Consulting, he has an extensive background in transport planning and modelling. A passionate transport professional, he is interested in the future of mobility and how it will impact lives, businesses, government, and cities. He is also an Advisory Board Member of Newcastle University. In his role with PTV, he applies his expert knowledge in traffic and transport planning in his work with governments, businesses and cities, helping them to rise to future challenges and develop better, greener and safer transport solutions on local, regional, national and global scales. A Portuguese national, Paulo speaks six languages fluently.

Ms. Akiko Yoshida is Assistant Vice Minister for International Affairs for the Ministry of Land Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism(MLIT) of Japan.

She has held various positions in the MLIT and other government agencies in the transport and tourism sector including railways. Recently, she worked as a legal advisor to a London Based IGO, IOPC Funds. She earned a Bachelor of Laws from Kyoto University in Japan and a LL.M. from NYU School of Law in the United States. 

At the European Association for Forwarding, Transport, Logistics and Customs Services (CLECAT), Ms Miglė Blusevičiūtė is focusing on road and maritime transport policy issues at the European level, aiming to integrate sustainability aspects into logistics supply chain. Prior to that, Miglė worked on environmental and sustainability issues pertaining to road transport at the European headquarters of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company and also as a consultant for Hyundai Motor Europe. Holding a Master’s degree in EU policy studies, she gained experience at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Internal Market and Industry, as well as the World Trade Organisation.

Jerker Sjögren is economist (Umeå University/School of Economics, 1972). He has a long career within both public and private sector as management consultant or head of different organizations. Since beginning of 2016 Jerker Sjögren is an independent consultant within his own company, Jesjo Konsult. From March 2011 Jerker Sjögren has been responsible for building up and operating CLOSER, a new Swedish arena for transport efficiency, focusing on innovation and research. High Capacity Transport (HCT) is one of three focus areas for CLOSER. Since 2015 Jerker Sjögren has been chairman for the ITF/OECD working group on HCT. Jerker Sjögren was earlier Senior Adviser at the Swedish Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications responsible for strategic logistics issues and coordinator of the Swedish Logistics Forum.

Ángela María Orozco Gómez is a Barranquilla lawyer from Universidad Javeriana with a Master's degree in Comparative Jurisprudence from the University of Texas (United States), a specialist in Economic Law from the Externado University of Colombia and a Fellow at the Yale World Yale University (2003). She was designated as one of the 100 global leaders of tomorrow by the World Economic Forum (2000), as one of the 10 outstanding young people of Colombia by the Junior Chamber of Colombia (2000) and as the year's Foreign Trade executive by the Association of Foreign Trade Directors 2001). She has worked in the public sector as Minister of Foreign Trade (2002), President of Proexport (2000-2002) and Vice Minister of Foreign Trade (1998- 2000). She excelled in positions such as General and International Manager and Vice President of the Colombian Association of Flower Exporters (Asocolflores, 1995-1998), Head of the legal office of the Superintendency of Securities, where she was also an advisor (1994-1995), Associate Lawyer in Araújo Ibarra & Asociados (1993-1994); Economic Advisor to the Embassy of the United States (1993), Deputy Director of Trade Promotion Instruments (1992-1993) and Head of the Legal Division of the Commercial Practice of Incomex (1990-1992). She has also served as a member of international trade dispute settlement panels within the framework of the WTO (2015-2016) and ALADI (2004).

Katherine Bamford is a member of the Leadership Team at Vancouver Fraser Port Authority serving as Director, Trade Development since 2012. Ms. Bamford is responsible for providing strategic leadership and daily management of the Port’s commercial customer engagement and outreach strategies, maintaining and growing market share across the Port’s five business sectors, and developing new markets through competitive marketing strategies and policies.
Ms. Bamford joined the Port Authority in 1992. Previous to her current role, Ms. Bamford provided leadership for the Port’s strategic external communications while supporting the organization’s federal and provincial government affairs and policy initiatives. With a background in corporate communications and public affairs, Ms. Bamford has played a major role in shaping the Port’s story in the media and with external audiences.
Ms. Bamford holds an executive MBA and a Graduate Certificate for Business in the Americas from the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University. Ms. Bamford also holds a BA in English from the University of British Columbia, and is a graduate of the Anatomy of Shipping diploma program from the Cambridge Academy of Transport in Cambridge, England.

Philippe Crist is Advisor for Innovation and Foresight at the  International Transport Forum (ITF) at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). He coordinates the research of the ITF’s Corporate Partnership Board and manages international research projects for the ITF’s 59 Member countries. His current work focuses on disruptive urban mobility scenarios and examines how car-based and active mobility, public transport and taxis must adapt to these. He is also leading work on Data science and public policy within the ITF investigating new strategies to leverage knowledge derived from new and rapidly growing data sources to improve transport decision-making. In 2016 he won the Danish Cycling Embassy's Leadership Award for Cycling Promotion. His other work currently looks at managing mobility in rapidly growing urban areas, assessing GHG emission strategies in the transport sector, as well as investigating national transport asset and network management strategies. He also does much of his best thinking on a bicycle.

As senior adviser and deputy director at the Swedish Ministry of Infrastructure in Stockholm, Åsa Vagland is responsible for such emerging technologies as connected, cooperative, shared and automated mobility, as well as mobility as a service. She also manages the Swedish Prime Minister’s Innovation Partnership Programme in next-generation travel and transportation and develops policy and strategies for transport and mobility as well as gender objectives and gender mainstreaming in the transportation sector.

Vagland earned a degree in social science from Farsta Gymnasium, an upper secondary school outside Stockholm and received her university degree in regional, transportation, and societal planning at the University of Stockholm.

Aimée is in charge of leading work on Climate Change Mitigation in the Climate, Biodiversity and Water Division of the Environment Directorate, at the OECD. Current work includes the development of the report "Climate Change Mitigation through a Well-being Lens", which discusses how adopting a well-being lens changes the perspective on climate  policy approaches across different economic sectors (electricity, heavy industry, residential, transport and agriculture).  Other work includes supporting countries in the development of Long-term Low-emission Development Strategies (LT-LEDS).

Before joining the Environment Directorate, Aimee was an Economist at the International Transport Forum at the OECD. She was in charge of developing case specific studies and roundtable meetings in a range of subjects such as land-use and transport integration; linkages between mobility policies, access improvements and social inclusion; strategies for improving air quality; and metropolitan governance of transport. Aimée also worked previously as part of the Transport Outlook team, analyzing regional and global passenger transport trends. As part of this work she led the development of urban mobility scenarios for different world regions and the analysis of the environmental and health impacts of different urban transport policies. Within the OECD she has also worked in the Governance Directorate, and before joining the OECD she worked in WRI-EMBARQ Mexico.

Aimée has a bachelor degree in Economics from the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Economómicas (CIDE) in Mexico City, a Master's degree in International Political Economy from the University of Warwick in the UK and a “maitrise” in Sustainable Development from Dauphine Univeristé in Paris.

Allan Ellingsen is a Norwegian politician from the Progress Party. He was appointed State Secretary of the Ministry of Transport on 22 January 2019. He has studied political science and organisational management.

Ellingsen was appointed Deputy Mayor of the City of Bodø from 2014 to 2015. He served as a member of the Vågan Municipal Council from 2003 to 2011. Ellingsen has served as a member of the Bodø Municipal Council since 2015 and the Nordland County Council since 2003.

Tomas Eneroth is Minister for Infrastructure of Sweden since July 2017, responsible for transport and infrastructure in the Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation. He studied sociology and political science at Växjö University College. Before being appointed Minister for Infrastructure Mr Eneroth was Parliamentary Group Leader for the Social Democratic Party (2014–2017). Mr Eneroth has been a Member of Parliament since 1994 and during this time he has filled several different positions in different policy areas, including Chairman of the Committee on Social Insurance and Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Industry and Trade. He was a political adviser in the Ministry of Education between 1996 and 2002, and State Secretary in the same Ministry in 1999.

Since 2013 Diego DIAZ has held the positions of President of SNCF International and International Director of SNCF MOBILITES.

Diego DIAZ began his career as a Product and Project Manager for Thales Avionics before joining Bombardier Transportation where he held several leadership positions in the Services and Light Rail Divisions before being appointed Director of Strategy, Marketing & Sales.

Mr. Diaz holds a Master of Science in Aeronautics & Astronautics from M.I.T (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), a Master of Business Administration from the M.I.T Sloan School of Management and a French engineering degree from the “Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace” (ISAE-SUPAERO). 

Dr Robert Guild is Chief Sector Officer of the Asian Development Bank. He is responsible for ADB-wide technical collaboration, innovation, and knowledge management for sector groups in transport, energy, urban, water, education, health, and finance; and coordination with thematic groups for agriculture and rural development, gender, social development, environment, regional cooperation, and climate change and disaster risk management. He is also responsible for management and resource mobilization for 19 bank-wide trust funds covering all sectors.

Dr Guild is an expert on infrastructure investment for social and economic development. He has advised governments, the private sector, and multilateral institutions in over two dozen countries in Asia, the Pacific, and Latin America on public investments, public-private partnerships, and national and regional development plans. His published work covers transport and urban economics, interregional development, and public investment policy.

Dr Guild began his career as an engineer in the United States and has worked extensively for bilateral and multilateral agencies in international development. He has held faculty appointments at universities in the United States, the Pacific region, and New Zealand. He has been with the Asian Development Bank since 2003.

Dr Guild holds degrees in civil engineering, public administration, urban and regional planning, and international development.

Mattias Landgren is State Secretary to Tomas Eneroth, Minister for Infrastructure. He holds a Master’s Degree in Law from Uppsala University. Prior to serving as State Secretary, Mr. Landgren held various positions at the public sector, including: Political Adviser at the Prime Minister's Office, Chief Legal Officer at the Building Workers' Union and Collective Agreements Expert and Head of Section at Unionen (trade union). He has also worked as a law lecturer at Stockholm University.

After concluding his studies on Political Sciences in Strasbourg (France) in 1998 , P. Alfonso worked from 1999 to 2004 as a Parliamentary Assistant to the Vice-Chairperson of the EP Employment and Social Affairs Committee.

He then worked for the Dublin-based the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions. He eventually joined the European Transport Workers Federation (ETF) in October 2005 as Political Secretary for Maritime Transport, Fisheries and Dockers.

As from April 2011, he became full-time Political Secretary responsible for shipping. In this capacity he coordinates the work of the ETF Maritime Transport Section - which brings together the European seafarers’ unions – focusing on quality jobs and promoting the demand for European seafarers and maritime professionals, seafarers’ social rights and well-being, and the need for high-level training.

Pyers Tucker is responsible for developing Hapag-Lloyd’s long term strategy.  He has been at Hapag-Lloyd for the last 5 years, running major company wide improvement programmes (eg latterly strategy).  Before that he went through multiple stations, including:  Maersk, DHL at Global Customer Solutions, and The Monitor Company.  Prior to that he was in the British Army, latterly responsible for operations in Bosnia.  During that time he was also the personal staff officer to Commander of UN Forces in Bosnia and has given evidence at 6 trials at the Bosnia war crimes tribunal in The Hague.

Martin Dorsman has been the Secretary General of the European Community Shipowners’ Associations since the 1^st of November 2017. From June 2011 to the date of his appointment as Secretary General he had been the managing director of the Royal Association of Netherlands Shipowners (KVNR). From September 2006 to June 2011 he had been the KVNR’s deputy managing director.

Before joining the KVNR he had been employed by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, and as such had been working on macro-economic policy, regional economic policy and R&D-policy. In 1999 he joined the ministry of Transport, where he was responsible for fiscal maritime policy and other maritime policies. The latter two years of his employment at the ministry of Transport he was head of unit for the team responsible for the Betuwe freight rail track, running from the port of Rotterdam to the German border.

Mr. Paulius Martinkus is Vice-Minister of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Lithuania since 29 December 2016. Paulius is responsible for aviation, road, rail and maritime policy departments within the ministry. After graduating from Stockholm School of Economics in Riga (BSc in Economics and Business) he worked as Project Manager at GILD Bankers (Tallinn, Estonia, 2006-2009) and Group Finance Controller at JSC "the Book" (2009–2011). Later he was Head of Governance Coordination Centre for State-Owned Enterprises (2011–2013), President of Baltic Institute of Corporate Governance (2014–2016). Since 2008 he has served as professional member of Boards of Directors in private and state-owned enterprises. Currently Paulius holds board member position in state owned enterprises JSC "Lithuanian Railways", SE “Klaipėda State Sea Port Authority” and JSC “Smiltynės perkėla”.

Since 1 February 2016, Clara de la Torre is appointed Director for 'Transport' in the Directorate-General for Research & Innovation at the European Commission, marking the forth assignment at such position in the course of last 8 years. Previously, starting in 2014, she was responsible for the dossier 'Key Enabling Technologies', following a 3-years' appointment as Director in the field of 'Research and Innovation.'  In her first post as a Director, from 2008 to 2010, she was in charge of 'Inter-institutional and legal matters related to the Framework Programme' at the European Commission.

After a couple of years in private sector, her professional career was focussing on the research policies which became the springboard to working opportunities at the European Commission in 1987. In the late 90's, she was dealing with 'National Research Policies & Intergovernmental Cooperation.' She was also working at the EU Joint Research Centre both in Brussels and Seville, where she was Advisor to the Director of the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies. 

Clara de la Torre has a degree in Economics and Business Administration from the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid.

With a population of over 500 000, Leipzig, is the largest city in the German federal state of Saxony. Burkhard Jung has been mayor since 2006. He is a representative of the Germany's Social Democratic Party.

From 1977 to 1982, Dr. Hartmut Mangold studied law, German language and literature at the Universities of Freiburg
and Regensburg, completing a doctorate in philosophy (Dr. phil.) in 1988.

He was the Head of Department at Brandenburg’s Ministry of Science, Education and Culture,and later moved to the Brandenburg State Chancellery. Mangold then became the Head of Department at the Federal Chancellery.

He worked as Ministerialdirigent (head of a ministerial section) at the Federal Ministry of
Transport, Construction and Urban Development.

Dr. Hartmut Mangold has been the State Secretary at the Saxon State Ministry for Economic Affairs,
Labour and Transport since December 2014.

Adefunke Adeyemi was recently honoured as one of the 200 globally Most Influential People of  African Descent (MIPAD) in affiliation with the United Nations Decade for People of African Descent. An alumnus of the University of Cambridge, she is a catalyst of change, a transformative thought leader and influencer, positively impacting lives and the business environment through her passion, work and initiatives. She is focused on bringing value, best practices and international standards to sectors, industries, businesses and government, through her work and career spanning 20 years. She is a lawyer, advocate and global aviation expert.

In her current role as Regional Director, Advocacy & Strategic Relations for Africa at the International Air Transportation Association (IATA), Adefunke advocates for the sustainability and growth of the aviation industry across the region, highlighting its value to economies and societies as an enabler and catalyst for development and growth, and a force for social good. 

Adefunke is passionate about Leadership and Innovation. In IATA, she was part of the core senior management group tasked with revising the strategic direction of the global aviation industry and the re-organisation of IATA to better meet member and industry needs. Until last year, Adefunke headed the Diversity & Inclusion initiative of IATA in Africa Middle East, also leading its Women in Leadership program in the region, and has mentored several women and men, both within and outside her organisation.

Regina Clewlow is the CEO and Co-founder of Populus, a data platform for cities to manage the future of mobility. Trusted by leading cities and the world’s largest mobility operators, the Populus platform securely ingests real-time data from shared electric scooters, bikes, and cars - helping operators and cities partner to deliver safe, equitable, and efficient streets through better data and analytics.

Regina has over a decade of experience in transportation, having served as a research scientist and lecturer at Stanford, UC Berkeley, and UC Davis. Prior to forming Populus, Regina was the Director of Business Development and Strategy at RideScout, an early mobility-as-a-service aggregator that was acquired by moovel, Daimler and BMW’s mobility services unit. Regina has been named a 40 Under 40 by Mass Transit magazine and the San Francisco Business Times. She has a Ph.D. in transportation and energy systems from MIT, and a bachelor’s in computer science from Cornell.

Silvia Gehrer is the Regional Director of the European and North Atlantic (EUR/NAT) Office of ICAO since 01 February 2019.

Previously, she was Director General International from 2013 to 31 January 2019 where she was heading the Department of Strategy and International in the Austrian Civil Aviation Authority since 2009.

She initially worked with the Ministry for Economic Affairs and joined the Austrian Permanent Representation at the EU in Brussels in 1995, the year of Austria’s accession to the EU as Trade Policy Attaché. She also worked at the US Embassy in 1999 before joining the Austrian Ministry for Transport in 2000 where she headed the unit for EU and International Aviation. From 2004 -2007 she represented Austria on the Council of the International Aviation Organisation as a member of the ABIS Rotation Group (Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxemburg, Ireland, Switzerland and Ireland).

Ms. Gehrer received a Master Degree in Business Administration specialising in Aviation and Trade from Vienna Economic University and also holds a Master Degree in Public Relations.

Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson is the Minister of Transport and Local Government of Iceland. He has been in this position since 2017. He is also the Minister for Nordic Co-operation and Chairman of the Progressive Party.

François Davenne, a graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications d’Evry in 1988 and of the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA) in 1999, has always promoted interdisciplinarity as a key factor for success. After experience in international satellite telecommunications, his first assignments were in the housing sector and required strong financial and legal skills. He was involved in policy and regulation of the sector, and managed key operational programmes, in particular for the city of Paris. After three years in the French Ministry of Transport working on railway safety and regulations, with the emphasis on European regulations, he was elected Secretary General of OTIF in 2012, where, since 1 January 2013, he has promoted interdisciplinarity and partnership building to expand the uniform regulations for international carriage by rail. He’s currently Deputy Director General of UIC, the International Union of Railways. He will become Director General of the organisation end of June 2019.

Philippe Villard has been Airports Council International (ACI) World’s Head, Policy and Economics since February 2017. His main responsibilities include developing airport economic policies; airport charges and aeronautical business development; and airport slots and capacity policies. Prior to joining ACI, Philippe held positions with increasing responsibilities in air transport economic policy development, and airport user charges and aeronautical revenues at the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA). He holds a Master’s in Public Policy from the Paris Institute of Political Studies, France, and a PhD in Political Science from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.

Ms. Carvajal is a specialist in the subject of negotiation and alternative dispute resolution. She obtained her MBA with an emphasis on Marketing at the University of San Diego in California and holds a degree in Law from the University of Costa Rica. Her work over the last decade has provided her with extensive experience in the area of public service. She has specialized in Alternative Conflict Resolution Methods and is currently a member of the Centro Internacional de Arbitraje y Conciliación Comercial (International Center for Arbitration and Commercial Conciliation). She was a member of Road Safety Committee, which is led by the Fundación Internacional de Automovilismo (International Automobile Foundation). As Minister of Public Works and Transportation in Costa Rica she achieved a fourfold increase in the investment of public works, the resumption of construction at the national airport, which was stalled due to conflicts, the transformation of the driver’s license system, the promotion of a new traffic law and the inclusion of road safety components in the design of road infrastructure. She is currently Transport Sector Manager for South Asia at the World Bank. Karla is also leading the Gender Task Force for the World Bank's Transport Global Practice, working to operationalize the gender agenda in the transport sector.

Hon Shane Jones is a New Zealand First List MP based in Kerikeri, and as a Cabinet Minister in the Labour-New Zealand First Coalition Government holds the portfolios of Forestry, Infrastructure, Regional Economic Development, Associate Finance, Associate State Owned Enterprises, and Associate Transport. He is responsible for overseeing both the Government’s ambitious one billion trees planting programme and the Provincial Growth Fund, which will see one billion dollars spent per annum on economic development opportunities in the regions. He was previously the Ambassador for Pacific Economic Development, with a particular focus on fisheries, agriculture and tourism, given the significance of these resources to enhancing economic development in the region.  Mr Jones was also a Member of Parliament from 2005 – 2014, during which he held positions including Minister of Building and Construction, Associate Minister of Immigration, Associate Minister of Trade, Associate Minister in Charge of Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations, and Chair of the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee. Mr Jones has a long history of involvement in the fisheries sector and New Zealand’s Māori fisheries settlement. Mr Jones was Chair of Te Ohu Kaimoana (the Māori Fisheries Commission); Chairperson of Sealord Products Limited, and has held a number of senior positions more broadly in the public and private sector. Shane Jones was born in Awanui, Northland, New Zealand, and is of Te Aupōuri and Ngāi Takoto descent. He has a Masters of Public Administration (MPA) from Harvard University earned on a Harkness Fellowship.

Seleta Reynolds is General Manager of the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) appointed by the Administration of Mayor Eric Garcetti. Ms. Reynolds is responsible for implementing Great Streets for Los Angeles, a plan to reduce traffic fatalities, double the number of people riding bikes, and expand access to integrated transportation choices for Angelinos and the region. Ms. Reynolds has over 18 years of transportation experience throughout the United States. She has advised transportation technology companies like WalkScore, contributed to the state-of-the-practice as an Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals Board Member, mentored young professionals through Women’s Transportation Seminar, and nurtured research on Transportation Research Board committees. Ms. Reynolds serves as the President of the National Association for City Transportation Officials.

Helen was appointed Director of TII’s Professional Services Division in 2015 following the establishment of Transport Infrastructure Ireland. This Division provides technical expertise to support the delivery of TII funded projects and network operations. Her responsibilities include transport planning, land use planning, environmental policy, road and light rail safety, research and standards. Her previous role was the Head of Strategic and Transport Planning in the National Roads Authority. Helen has over 30 years of experience in transport planning, project appraisal and project management and has worked in the UK, Ireland and France in the public and private sectors. She is a Chartered Engineer and holds a Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree and a Diploma in Project Management. She has been a Council Member of Engineers Ireland and Chairperson of WITS, a voluntary organisation supporting women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

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Axel Threlfall is Editor-at-Large, Reuters, based in London. Alongside his editorial duties, he hosts high-profile engagements and thought leadership events for and on behalf of Reuters and Thomson Reuters, such as the Newsmaker series and the World Economic Forum news programs in Davos. He was previously Lead European Anchor for Reuters Digital Video. Prior to joining Reuters, Axel spent four years as an anchor for CNBC in London. Before that, he was an editor with The Wall Street Journal in New York and a news reporter for Bloomberg in London. He has also advised businesses and NGOs on their dealings with the international media. Axel is frequently asked to moderate events for international organizations, including the United Nations and the OECD. He has a BA in History from Durham University and a postgraduate degree in journalism from City University, London.

Melinda Crane is Chief Political Correspondent at Deutsche Welle-TV and hosts the talk shows "Quadriga" and "People and Politics" She was Senior Producer of "Global Players" on CNBC. She has moderated a wide variety of podium discussions and conferences for public organisations and private sector clients. Among her areas of expertise are transatlantic politics; women, family education issues; climate and environment; business and economics; new media and the internet. Crane holds a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School and a Doctoral Degree in political economy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Ali Aslan is an international television presenter, moderator and journalist. His career has included working for global news networks such as CNN, ABC News, Channel News Asia and Deutsche Welle TV.

Philipp Rode is Executive Director of LSE Cities and Associate Professorial Research Fellow at LSE. He is co-director of the LSE Executive MSc in Cities and co-convenes the LSE Sociology Course on ‘City Making: The Politics of Urban Form’. As researcher, consultant and advisor he has been directing interdisciplinary projects comprising urban governance, transport, city planning and urban design at LSE since 2003. The focus of his current work is on institutional structures and governance capacities of cities and on sustainable urban development, transport and mobility. He is co-directing the cities workstream of the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate and has co-led the United Nations Habitat III Policy Unit on Urban Governance. He has previously led the coordination of the chapters on Green Cities and Green Buildings for the United Nations Environment Programme’s Green Economy Report. Dr Rode is Executive Director of the Urban Age Programme and since 2005 organised Urban Age conferences in over a dozen world cities bringing together political leaders, city mayors, urban practitioners, private sector representatives and academic experts. He manages the Urban Age research efforts and recently co-authored Towards New Urban Mobility: The case of London and Berlin (2015), Cities and Energy: Urban morphology and heat energy demand (2014), Going Green: How cities are leading the green economy (2012) and Transforming Urban Economies (2013). He has previously worked on several multidisciplinary research and consultancy projects in New York and Berlin and was awarded the Schinkel Urban Design Prize 2000.

An industry-known leader, Gene Seroka brings more than 29 years of experience in shipping, global logistics and executive management to the Port of Los Angeles. As executive director of the busiest container port in North America, he is responsible for managing more than a $1 billion budget, leading a team of more than 900 employees, advancing major capital projects, growing cargo volumes, and promoting innovative, sustainable practices that improve Southern California’s economy and quality of life. His duties involve interacting with a wide range of stakeholders, including Port customers worldwide, supply chain partners, labor, community members, and elected and appointed officials at all levels. He is a member of the U.S. Department of Commerce Advisory Committee on Supply Chain Competitiveness, U.S. Department of Transportation Bureau of Transportation Port Performance Freight Statistics Working Group, U.S. Maritime Administration Marine Transportation System National Advisory Committee, and Federal Maritime Commission Supply Chain Innovation Team. He is an alumnus of the University of New Orleans, where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration.

Mr. Christian Labrot is the President of the International Road Transport Union (IRU). He enjoys a distinguished career in transport, which started in 1979 at BWV, the German Association of Professional Transport Companies and Shippers.  He was appointed Managing Director of BWV in 1990 and became Secretary General of the German Federation of Economics, Transport and Logistics in 1995. Mr Labrot has also served as a member of various IRU Commissions for many years, including: President of the IRU Liaison Committee for own-account transport and Vice-President of the Goods Transport Liaison Committee with the European Union. Mr Labrot studied Economics at the University of Bonn, Germany, specialising in transport economics, where he graduated in 1979. He also holds an MA in Economics. 

Pino Musolino, President of the North Adriatic Sea Port Authority, was born in Venice in 1978. He graduated in 2006 in Law at the University of Bologna and achieved the master's degree in "International Commercial and Maritime Law" at the University of Wales, Swansea, in 2010. Up to March 2017, he worked as Corporate Insurance Risk Manager for the Middle East area at Hapag-Lloyd with the tasks of management, development, coordination and control of claims and P&I complaints. From 2012 to 2016 he worked as Senior Claims Manager and Average Adjuster at Atlantis International Services NV in Antwerp taking care of legal advice on international transport, management and coordination of complaints. Between 2011 and 2012 he worked as Sales and Contracts Manager at Mechel Service Belgium BVBA in Antwerp, a multinational leading in the production and sale of raw materials. Here he dealt with the development and expansion of the Spanish, Portuguese and Scandinavian markets. He was also responsible for planning and supervising sales, organizing the logistic chain and providing a full customer-oriented service. In 2010-2011 he worked as assistant to the General Manager of the Venice Provincial Administration whilst simultaneously coordinating the legal and administrative aspects of the internal Auditing and Organizational Development Office, serving also as paralegal at the Legal Office from 2007 to 2009. From 2014 he is a member of Belgische Vereniging voor Zeerecht and of the Association of Average Adjuster - United Kingdom.

Mr. Lim was born in Masan, Gyeongsangnam-do, in the Republic of Korea. He majored in nautical science at the Korea Maritime and Ocean University (KMOU), Busan, graduating in 1977. He worked on ships as a Korean naval officer and for an international shipping company. He joined the Korea Maritime and Port Administration in 1985, while continuing with further studies at the Graduate School of Administration, Yonsei University, obtaining a Master’s Degree in 1990.  He then studied maritime administration at the World Maritime University (WMU), graduating with a master’s degree. From 1995 he attended a doctoral programme for international law at KMOU, completing course work in 1998.  Mr. Lim began attending IMO meetings as part of the Republic of Korea’s delegation in 1986 and he engaged in activities to promote maritime safety through effective implementation of IMO conventions in his country and other IMO Member States in the Asian region. He was elected Chair of IMO's Sub-Committee on Flag State Implementation (FSI - now III) in 2001 and of the Tokyo Memorandum on Port State Control in 2004.  In 2006, Mr. Lim was appointed Director General of the Maritime Safety Bureau of the Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs (MLTM) and then as a Senior Maritime Attaché at the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in London and led all IMO work for the Republic of Korea, serving as an Alternate Permanent Representative to IMO up to August 2009. Following that, he was re-appointed Director General for Maritime Safety Bureau (MLTM). In March 2011, Mr. Lim was appointed Commissioner of the Korean Maritime Safety Tribunal (KMST).  In July 2012, he assumed the position of President of Busan Port Authority, until January 2016 when he took up his appointment as Secretary-General of IMO. 

Mohamed Mezghani has been working for more than 25 years in public transport and urban mobility related fields. He has been elected Secretary General of the International Association of Public Transport (UITP) and will be taking office on 1/01/2018. He has been Deputy Secretary General of UITP the since January 2014. Until then, he has worked at UITP as Senior Manager (1999-2001) and Knowledge Director (2001-2006) chairing the department developing knowledge-related services for UITP members: professional training, research projects, thematic studies, technical advice, conferences, networking activities, information centre, etc. From 2006 till 2013, he has worked as independent consultant and Adviser to UITP on several technical assistance and training projects in Africa and the Middle-East and managed a number of projects involving numerous experts and multidisciplinary teams. Before joining UITP, M. Mezghani has been working as consultant in the French group, BCEOM, (from 1990 to 1999) more particularly in the urban mobility field. He has managed and carried out projects including policy definition, technical assistance and research activities in several countries in Europe, sub-Saharan Africa and Arab countries. During his collaboration with the French Agency for Environment and Energy Management, ADEME, (from 1988-1990), M. Mezghani carried out actions aimed at identifying and evaluating transport energy efficiency projects likely to be financed by the Agency in France. He has been graduated in Industrial Engineering (1987) from Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tunis, Tunisia and has a Master in Transport (1988) from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris, France.

Karla Peijs was appointed European Coordinator for the TEN-T Rhine-Danube Corridor on 12 March 2014. Ms Peijs has previously been European Coordinator responsible for Inland Waterways, in particular Priority Project 18 Rhine/Meuse-Main-Danube, and Priority Project 30 Seine-Scheldt, between September 2007 and December 2013.

Martin Frick oversees as Senior Director UNFCCC’s work supporting the implementation of the Paris Agreement and climate action. He previously served as director for climate change at UNFAO. He was the German representative for human rights and humanitarian affairs at the UN General Assembly and served as the European Union’s lead negotiator in the establishment of the UN Human Rights Council. As Ambassador to the international organizations based in Germany, he helped building up the UN’s sustainability hub in Bonn. He holds a PhD in law and was a guest lecturer at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin.