Chen Chu

Mayor, City of Kaohsiung

Gino Van Begin

Secretary General, ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability, Bonn, Germany

Monika Zimmermann

Deputy Secretary General, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability, Bonn, Germany

Monika's vision as Deputy Secretary General is to enrich all ICLEI agendas through global projects and global city cooperation networks, further improve the consistency, methodology and description of ICLEI's working approaches and to strengthen the relations to new and existing ICLEI partners. Joining ICLEI in 1993 when she started to build up the International Training Center at ICLEI European Secretariat. In 2010, she joined the World Secretariat, where she manages the teams working on global events, knowledge management, urban research, EcoMobility and Future City Leaders. Since 2012, she assumed the role of Deputy Executive Director of the ICLEI e.V., the legal body of the ICLEI World Secretariat where she takes the responsibility as Finance Director. She also supervises the Capacity Center, the Resilient Cities and EcoMobility Teams, as well as the development and coordination of ICLEI's agendas on Resource-Efficient Cities and Green Urban Economy.

Bronwen Thornton

Development Director, Walk 21, United Kingdom

Bronwen is an international expert, facilitator and trainer on walking and walkable communities, giving walking a voice on the international stage and within local communities, cities and professional arenas. She has more than 20 years of experience in strategic transport planning, community and political engagement and policy and project development with a focus on equitable and sustainable transport. She works on European projects to improve and promote walkability, delivers Walkability Masterclasses and Roadshows and contributes to international projects such as the Sustainable Development Goals, Transport and Climate actions and the New Urban Agenda. She is currently a Board member of SLoCaT (The Sustainable Low Carbon Transport Foundation) and the International Federation of Pedestrians.

Manfred Neun

President, European Cycling Foundation, Germany

Manfred is a key figure in the world of global cycling advocacy. By initiating a scientific based approach to content, he has ensured that important global decision makers are hearing the ECF’s key messages, as at the 2011 OECD International Transport Forum 51 transport ministers, or as he delivered the content to identify that ‘Cycling Delivers!’ to 14 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Under his leadership Velo-city has been transformed into an annual, international conference series, with the next global cycling summit 2018 in Rio de Janeiro, and one of the ECF’s global networks he initiated is “Scientists for Cycling”.

Monika Zimmermann

Deputy Secretary General, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability, Bonn, Germany

Monika's vision as Deputy Secretary General is to enrich all ICLEI agendas through global projects and global city cooperation networks, further improve the consistency, methodology and description of ICLEI's working approaches and to strengthen the relations to new and existing ICLEI partners. Joining ICLEI in 1993 when she started to build up the International Training Center at ICLEI European Secretariat. In 2010, she joined the World Secretariat, where she manages the teams working on global events, knowledge management, urban research, EcoMobility and Future City Leaders. Since 2012, she assumed the role of Deputy Executive Director of the ICLEI e.V., the legal body of the ICLEI World Secretariat where she takes the responsibility as Finance Director. She also supervises the Capacity Center, the Resilient Cities and EcoMobility Teams, as well as the development and coordination of ICLEI's agendas on Resource-Efficient Cities and Green Urban Economy.

Robert Stussi

CEO, Perform Energia Consulting, Lisbon, Portugal

Robert Stüssi, of Swiss and Portuguese nationality is a urban planner, transport and mobility consultant and manager of various companies and advisor for public and private entities, research and teaching; networker and conference organizer and moderator; consortium leader and project director (EC, URBACT, Interreg, IDB, BAD, ASDI). He was the former president of the NGOs Portuguese, European and World Association for Battery, Hybrid and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle.

Arthur Robes

Mayor, San Jose del Monte, Philippines

Chen Chu

Mayor, City of Kaohsiung

Jan van Zanen

Mayor, Utrecht, Netherlands

Jan van Zanen was born in 1961, and spent his childhood in the city of Edam-Volendam. He completed his law studies at the VU University Amsterdam and at Cornell University Law School in Ithaca, New York, USA. He was appointed Alderman of Financial and Economic Affairs, Public Space and Monuments in 1998, which he remained for seven years. Between 2003 and 2008, he was national chairman of the VVD. Mr Van Zanen was Mayor of Amstelveen between 2005 and 2013. Since January 1st 2014 he is Mayor of Utrecht, and since June 3rd 2015 he is charmain of the Association of Netherlands Municipalities (VNG).

Maimunah Mohd Sharif

Mayor, Penang, Malaysia

Park Jae Min

Deputy Mayor for Administrative Affair, Busan, South Korea

Shi Fang Liu

City Councillor, Kaohsiung and former Member of the ICLEI Regional Executive Committee for East Asia

Shyh-fang Liu

Legislator, former Member of the ICLEI Regional Executive Committee for East Asia

Tano Harumitsu

Vice Mayor, Kumamoto City, Japan

1981年　熊本市役所　入庁 2005年　行政経営課長 2009年　交通局次長 2011年　観光文化交流局局次長　兼　観光交流部長 2012年　農水商工局長 2015年　総務局長 2017年　副市長

Horace Luke

CEO, Gogoro Inc electric scooters and battery swapping company, Taipei

Luke is the founder and CEO of Gogoro, in charge of product development and corporate operations. Prior to that, he was the leading designer of the technology industry. He lead the R&D team at HTC company, developing world-class products and his achievements are also acknowledged internationally, including winning the Frost & Sullivan Technology Innovation Award, amongst others. He is said to develop the best mobile phone by the Global Communications Association in 2010. Before that, he worked at Microsoft for ten years, responsiblt for creative ideas and brand building, the first generation of Xbox, Windows XP, and Windows Mobile, and other. He has also worked at Nike and various brands.

Konrad Otto-Zimmermann

Creative Director, The Urban Idea GmbH, Freiburg, Germany

Konrad Otto-Zimmermann, urban planner and sustainability expert, is an urban thought leader and innovator. He coined the term and meaning of “ecomobility” in 2007 in order to allow the entirety of walking, cycling, wheeling and use of public transport to be expressed in a single term. Formerly Secretary General of ICLEI, he conceived the EcoMobility World Festivals (motto: “one neighborhood, one month, ecomobile”) and inspires them as creative director. His team is working on a compendium of human-scale ecomobility vehicles and mobility aids and produces media for campaigns to promote ecomobility.

Robin Berg

Founder, LomboXnet, Utrecht, Netherlands

Robin Berg (1970) is a sustainable entrepreneur and innovator based in the city of Utrecht, the Netherlands. Since 1999, Robin has invested in solar power generation. This lead to involvement in the innovation project ‘Smart Grids: efficient for everyone’. This project resulted in 2015 in the establishment of the Smart Solar Charging consortium, of which Robin is director. The consortium unites key parties in the value chain to jointly develop and roll-out Smart Solar Charging bidirectional networks.

Santhosh Kodukula

Project Coordinator, Wuppertal Institute of Climate, Environment and Energy, Germany

Santhosh (Sunny) works as a project co-ordinator in the Research Unit on Mobility in International Cooperation at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy. He also conducts research on human behavior and sustainable mobility, active mobility, climate policy and urban mobility, focusing on emerging economies. His clients include the European Commission, the Federal Government of Germany Prior to the Wuppertal Institute, Sunny was the EcoMobility Program Manager at the ICLEI, providing technical assistance to cities on urban mobility planning and implementation. Sunny also worked with the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) providing technical assistance to national and local governments in Asia and Pacific on sustainable mobility.

Emani Kumar

Deputy Secretary General, ICLEI South Asia Secretariat, New Delhi, India

Jan van Zanen

Mayor, Utrecht, Netherlands

Jan van Zanen was born in 1961, and spent his childhood in the city of Edam-Volendam. He completed his law studies at the VU University Amsterdam and at Cornell University Law School in Ithaca, New York, USA. He was appointed Alderman of Financial and Economic Affairs, Public Space and Monuments in 1998, which he remained for seven years. Between 2003 and 2008, he was national chairman of the VVD. Mr Van Zanen was Mayor of Amstelveen between 2005 and 2013. Since January 1st 2014 he is Mayor of Utrecht, and since June 3rd 2015 he is charmain of the Association of Netherlands Municipalities (VNG).

Robin Chase

Founder, ZipCar, GoLoco, Buzzcar, Veniam ‘Works, USA

Robin Chase is a transportation entrepreneur. She is co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar, the largest carsharing company in the world, as well as co-founder and board member of Veniam, a vehicle communications company building the networking fabric for the Internet of Moving Things. She recently published Peers Inc: How People and Platforms are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism. Her current passion is working with cities to maximize the transformation possible with the introduction of self driving cars.

Bruce Cheng

Founder of Delta Group

Bruce is the Founder of Delta Group, one of the biggest Taiwanese company.

Shu Zhu

Regional Director, ICLEI East Asia Secretariat, Seoul, Korea

Andrea Garcia

ICLEI EcoMobility Program Manager, ICLEI World Secretariat, Bonn, Germany

Andrea Garcia, ICLEI EcoMobility Program Manager, ICLEI World Secretariat, Bonn, Germany

Ashok Sridharan

Mayor, Bonn, Germany

Ashok Sridharan, Mayor, Bonn, Germany

Clayton Lane

CEO, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), New York, USA

Huey Yee Yoong

Vice-President - National Transformation Plan Implementation, PEMANDU Associates, Greater Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Vice-President - National Transformation Plan Implementation, PEMANDU Associates, Greater Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Lloyd Wright

Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila, Philippines

Lloyd Wright, Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila, Philippines

Monika Zimmermann

Deputy Secretary General, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability, Bonn, Germany

Monika's vision as Deputy Secretary General is to enrich all ICLEI agendas through global projects and global city cooperation networks, further improve the consistency, methodology and description of ICLEI's working approaches and to strengthen the relations to new and existing ICLEI partners. Joining ICLEI in 1993 when she started to build up the International Training Center at ICLEI European Secretariat. In 2010, she joined the World Secretariat, where she manages the teams working on global events, knowledge management, urban research, EcoMobility and Future City Leaders. Since 2012, she assumed the role of Deputy Executive Director of the ICLEI e.V., the legal body of the ICLEI World Secretariat where she takes the responsibility as Finance Director. She also supervises the Capacity Center, the Resilient Cities and EcoMobility Teams, as well as the development and coordination of ICLEI's agendas on Resource-Efficient Cities and Green Urban Economy.

Robin Chase

Founder, ZipCar, GoLoco, Buzzcar, Veniam ‘Works, USA

Robin Chase is a transportation entrepreneur. She is co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar, the largest carsharing company in the world, as well as co-founder and board member of Veniam, a vehicle communications company building the networking fabric for the Internet of Moving Things. She recently published Peers Inc: How People and Platforms are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism. Her current passion is working with cities to maximize the transformation possible with the introduction of self driving cars.

Tim Schubert

Senior Expert mobility, German Environment Agency, Dessau-Rosslau

Tim is responsible for developing concepts, measures and instruments to promote sustainable urban mobility, specifically urban freight and logistics, such as government support programmes. He oversees research projects in urban transport that are aimed at evaluating existing good practice and formulating scenarios and forecasts on measures to reduce air pollution and noise to improve liveability in cities. Furthermore, Tim was part of the team who prepared the brochure “Tomorrow’s Cities” which envisions cities with less cars and higher living standards based on a comprehensive set of planning, monetary and regulative measures.