Chen Chu

Mayor, City of Kaohsiung

Chow Kon Yeow

State Executive Councilor for Local Government, Traffic Management & Flood Mitigation, Penang State Government, Malaysia

Chow Kon Yeow is a State Executive Councillor of Penang State, Malaysia. He is the Chairman of the Local Government, Traffic Management and Flood Mitigation Committee. He is also the State Assemblyman for the Padang Kota State Constituency. He was first elected to the Penang State Assembly in 1990 for the Pengkalan Kota state constituency. In 1999 and 2004, Chow was elected to the Parliament of Malaysia for the Tanjong Constituency. He was elected as both Member of Parliament for Tanjong and State Assemblyman for Padang Kota in 2008. In 2013, he contested for the State Assembly seat in Padang Kota and was re-elected. Chow holds a Bachelor's degree in Social Science from the Universiti Sains Malaysia (Science University of Malaysia). As the Executive Councillor and the Chairman of the Local Government Committee of the State, Chow oversees the Penang Island City Council and the Seberang Perai Municipal Council. He is also responsible for policy-making on local government matters at State level and co-ordinating the National Council of Local Government for the Chief Minister of Penang who is the member of the Council.

Clayton Lane

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

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.

Limin Hee

Director of Research, Center for Liveable Cities, Singapore

Limin Hee is Director at Singapore’s Centre for Liveable Cities (CLC), a knowledge centre for liveable and sustainable cities, where she has oversight of research strategies, initiatives and collaborations. Prior to joining the CLC, she taught at the School of Design and Environment at the National University of Singapore, where she led the Urban Studies Research and Teaching Group, and was a Principal Investigator at the Centre for Sustainable Asian Cities. She obtained her Doctor of Design from Harvard University.

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.

Camilla Ween

Director of Goldstein Ween Architects, Chair of Trustees of Spacelink Learning Foundation, President of Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS), London, United Kingdom

Camilla is director of Goldstein Ween Architects where, as an architect and urban designer she focuses on sustainable cities and transportation. Camilla’s work focuses on issues associated with sustainable cities and the integration of urban transportation. In recent projects in Kano, Nigeria and Mexico City she expanded the transport briefs to include social inclusion, biodiversity and climate change mitigation, promotion of healthy lifestyles and improving the urban environment. She is currently working on the integration of UK rail projects. As a Built Environment Expert with UK Design Council, she advises on the quality of built environment proposals. She writes extensively on urban and transport issues; her books include Future Cities (2014) and she recently co-authored Real Estate and Development in South America (late 2017). She is also a regular lecturer at international universities and conferences.

Chen Chu

Mayor, City of Kaohsiung

Li Ming Hsu

Deputy Mayor, Kaohsiung

Tae-Young Yeom

Mayor, Suwon, South Korea

Bradley Schroeder

Bicyclogist, Catapult Design, Vientiane, Laos

Ma Shuang

Researcher, Tsing-hua University, Beijing, China

Mu-Han Wang,

Director General, Department of Science and Technology Advisors, Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC), Taipei

Wang is a Director-General of the Ministry of Transportatio and Communications since 2015. He has been working for the Ministry since 1994. He gained his PhD from Purdue University and he also did an Elite Leadership Program Study in Harvard University.

Paige Tsai

Transportation Research & Policy, Uber, San Francisco, USA

Paige joined Uber’s Policy and Research team in January 2016, and focuses on the future of mobility and transportation. As part of her work, Paige helps local teams foster collaboration with public transit agencies to improve access to transportation for people living in and around cities. Paige also leads Uber's accessibility policy efforts, working to identify ways to increase mobility and independence for people with disabilities. Prior to joining Uber, Paige worked at Dropbox on the communications team. Paige holds a B.A. in Psychology from Princeton University.

Susan Zielinski

Independent mobility innovator, consultant and writer, Canada; former managing director of Sustainable Mobility & Accessibility Research & Transformation (SMART), University of Michigan, USA

Ms. Zielinski works to advance sustainable transportation systems and the innovation and enterprise to supply them. While at SMART at the University of Michigan in addition to advising and collaborating with industry, government, and non-profits, she developed a practical multi-modal systems methodology for leaders that she and her team have led in over 25 cities worldwide. She also developed the global Mobi Prize and platform. Before SMART, she was a Harvard Loeb Fellow, and before that a sustainable transportation lead at the City of Toronto. There she hosted a seminal summit in 1998 called Moving the Economy, and subsequently commissioned the first open study on the emerging global New Mobility industry. With more than 30 years of experience working across sectors on sustainable transportation systems, she is a sought-after expert, speaker and mentor in the urban planning and transportation field.

Baerte de Brey

Stedin, Utrecht, Netherlands

Allways energy for electric mobility

Elly Sinaga

Senior Lecturer, Trisakti Transportation Management School and Advisor Committee, ITS Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia

Giuseppe Izzo

General Manager, Taiwan Operations and Regional Vice President, STMicroelectronics, Greater China and South Asia region, Taipei

Limin Hee

Director of Research, Center for Liveable Cities, Singapore

Limin Hee is Director at Singapore’s Centre for Liveable Cities (CLC), a knowledge centre for liveable and sustainable cities, where she has oversight of research strategies, initiatives and collaborations. Prior to joining the CLC, she taught at the School of Design and Environment at the National University of Singapore, where she led the Urban Studies Research and Teaching Group, and was a Principal Investigator at the Centre for Sustainable Asian Cities. She obtained her Doctor of Design from Harvard University.

Michael C.Y. Chang

Vice Mayor, City of Tainan

Michael, deputy mayor of the former Provincial Tourism Secretary and the Director of the Southwest Coast National Scenic Area, has been sent as a representative to New York, USA for eight year. Since his return, he joined the Tainan City Government Transport Bureau. Some of his initiatives when he was in the office include: Dedicated transport system, electronic ticket integration, flexible transport, electric bus, bus priority number, shared bicycle, intelligent roadside parking system, 400 4G smart bus, 900 and 1600 free walks at 1600. Since taking over as the vice mayor, he drove the smart mobility initiative in the Tainan City through "intelligent traffic control", "smart public transport", "intelligent parking management", "smart transport sharing" and "smart cloud Platform" and other systems. All of these with the aim of crearing an intelligent traffic center and promote smart city with an historical touch.

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.

Daniel Sauter

Urban Mobility Research, Zurich, Switzerland

Daniel Sauter studied sociology, psychology and political science in Zurich and has been devoting the last 25 years of his professional life as researcher to the world of walking, road danger reduction, the analysis of mobility patterns and the development of walking strategies. He currently focuses on how to measure walking and how to create inclusive public spaces. Daniel started out as co-director of the Swiss pedestrian organisation, represented the International Federation of Pedestrians (IFP) at the United Nations, initiated the International Charter for Walking and started the current efforts to develop standards for measuring walking. He performed and co-ordinated research in many local, national and international projects, e.g. within the European COST Action 358 on Pedestrian Quality Needs. He runs his own business, Urban Mobility Research, in Zurich, Switzerland.

Gregor Mews

Director, Urban Synergies Group, Canberra, Australia

Gregor H Mews is an internationally recognized urban planner and designer. His philosophy is based on sustainable and healthy development with our collective bio-history in mind. In the role of the Director, Greg provides strategic policy advice in international context and advocates for better design outcomes in urban systems for example as a Steering Committee member of UN-Habitats World Urban Campaign. He holds an honorary adjunct position at the Centre for Research and Action in Public Health at the University of Canberra and lectures at Yale University, Technical University of Berlin and University of New South Wales. Over the course of his career, Greg has received several research scholarships and received multiple work-related awards- one for the Active Living Impact Checklist for urban development. He is also a published author in Germany and Australia.

Khuat Viet Hung

Director General of Transport Department, Ministry of Transport of Vietnam, Executive Vice Chairman of National Transport Safety Committee, Hanoi, Vietnam

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”.

Jamie Leather

Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila, Philippines

Manfred Breithaupt

Senior Transport Advisor, Frankfurt, Germany

Manfred Breithaupt received his Masters in Economics in 1975. After working as Transport Economist for a German consulting company in Europe, Africa and Asia he joined GTZ in 1981 and worked as Senior Transport Advisor and Director of SUTP. His experience covers transport planning, transport sector policy and restructuring, sector financing, commercialization and institutional development. He advised Governments, transport authorities and municipalities in more than 50 countries. Over the last 15 years he worked overwhelmingly in the area of sustainable urban transport. He is the editor of the Sourcebook on Sustainable Urban Transport, meanwhile covering over 50 modules, technical documents and various training packages, having been translated in various languages. He also initiated the leading webpage on sustainable urban transport, www.sutp.org and the sustainable transport capacity building webpage www.capsut.org He retired recently from GIZ and works now as independent consultant and teaches transport planning and policy, currently at TU Munich and TU Dresden.

Sandra Retzer

Sustainable Urbanization, Transportation and Energy, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), China

Vicky Liu

Spokesperson for Youbike, Founder for Cycling Lifestyle Foundation, Taipei

Bradley Schroeder

Bicyclogist, Catapult Design, Vientiane, Laos

Isabel Fan

Regional Director, TESLA, Taipei

作為台灣、香港及澳門之市場總監，范菁怡小姐負責管理及推動當地的業務發展，並確保提供客戶感動服務的體驗。范總監擁有超過25年企業管理經驗，曾於美國及亞太地區大型企業擔任管理要職。其中，她曾於蘋果公司工作19年，專責管理零售通路、企業及教育市場發展，在業務規劃、策略合作管理及銷售營運方面經驗豐富，提升業務效率及生產力以達企業目標是她所重視的理念，她也一直熱衷科技，期望利用科技改善人類生活。

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.

Kuei-Tien Chou

Chairman, National Taiwan University, Graduate Institute of National Development

Chairman, National Taiwan University, Graduate Institute of National Development

Martin Ting

General Manager, 7Starlake, Taipei

Seungho Ha

Head of ZEV team, Changwon, South Korea

Mr. Ha was in charge of promoting the use of bicycles as the manager of the bicycle policy team from 2008 to 2013, and now is the team manager responsible for promoting ZEV in Changwon City.

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

Clayton Lane

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

Elin Chou

Senior Manager, Unicar sharing, Taipei

Elin Chou, is the CEO of Unicar sharing, which is actively engaged with electric vehicle sharing with the City of Taipei. It is also connected with YouBike, WeMo scooter sharing, and other car sharing enterprises. Chou has experience in China’s 13th five-year plan, Haiyi taxi fleet and operation of other electric vehicles. Zhou was also engaged in Taiwan’s fleet operating experience and planning, Shengzhen taxi inspection, and planning of Xiamen’s electric taxis. Through Xiamen taxi team and BYD jointly constructed the electric vehicle operating fleet of Xiamen through BYD E6 electric vehicles and charging facilities, management system, and driver scheduling system. The project only had policy and financial support from the Xiamen Municipal Council’s Transportation Bureau, it also became an example for Xiamen’s public-private-partnership example in 2016.

Jason Chang

Professor, National Taiwan University, Taipei

Michael Glotz-Richter

Senior Project Manager‚ Sustainable Mobility, City of Bremen, Germany

Michael Glotz-Richter is ‘senior project manager for sustainable mobility’ at the City of Bremen (pop 560,000) in Northern Germany – and has been responsible for many internationally recognised projects in the field of Car Sharing, promoting walking and cycling, intermodal services and alternative propulsion. Bremen was selected with its Car-Sharing strategies being Urban Best Practice to be presented at the World EXPO 2010 in Shanghai/China (“Better City – Better Life”). Bremen was awarded with European SUMP Award 2015 for its Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan.

Wayne Walker

Councillor, Auckland, New Zealand

Wayne is an Auckland (New Zealand) Councillor who has a long-standing association with ICLEI. To give you some brief background, in the last term of our Council I was Chair of the Environment, Climate Change, and Natural Heritage Committee, and led the development of Auckland Council’s Low-Carbon Action Plan. Over many years I have been engaged in a wide range of sustainability initiatives, as well as the ICLEI network (I am a member of ICLEI Rexcom Oceania). I have been a champion for sustainable transport, smart cities, energy transformation, and renewable energy here in Auckland. I attended COP21 Paris, the Earth Summit in Rio De Janeiro, and the recent ICLEI Conference in South Korea. I am a regular attendee and have spoken at events associated with the Taiwanese community and embassy here in New Zealand.

Zhao Hui

Beijing Transportation Development and Research Centre, Beijing, China

Amir Nivy

Founder & CEO, Hapitus, Singapore

Amir is the Founder and CEO of Hapticus, a Singapore based company founded with a vision to harness technology to provide mobility solutions in Metropolitans, with a strong emphasize on positive social impact. Hapticus flagship product, the Ecommuter, is a mobility platform for persons with special mobility needs and the elderly. By connecting the individuals, care centres and accessible transport providers under one virtual transportation hub, it improves the commuting experience for these sectors, and provides better visibility and ability to plan for the relevant authorities in charge of their commuting. Amir has been serving as the CEO of Hapticus for the past 6 years. With Hapticus, he is looking to continue solving real people’s challenges, and look into the future of mobility.

Christina Olsen

Program Director, Meeting of the Minds, USA

Christina is Program Director for Meeting of the Minds, a global thought leadership network, knowledge-sharing platform, and cross-sector convener focused on the future of sustainable cities, innovation, and technology. Christina helps develop and share leading edge research and practice on many transportation topics, such as multi-modal integration, autonomous vehicles, BRT (bus rapid transit), and urban leadership at the policy, governance, and organizational levels. She has also worked with the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF), Nutter Consulting smart cities strategy firm, the San Francisco Planning Department, the Wilson Center Urban Sustainability Lab, and the EcoSmart Foundation, a non-profit organization developing multi-stakeholder grid-tied solar projects in Canada. Christina holds a master’s degree in Sustainability and Environmental Management from Harvard and a BA in Environmental Studies – with a joint major in Anthropology – from the University of Victoria.

Feng Ming Hui

Dean, Institute for Information Industry, Taipei

Gordon Feller

Co-Founder, Meeting of the Minds, USA

Co-founder of Meeting of the Minds, Silicon Valley-based NGO focused on eco-mobility since before 2000, when it spun off the World Bank after starting as a multi-year project inside the Wash DC headquarters. Annual leadership summit now in its 11th year. 30 years of building alliances linking for-profit, NGO, government. Serving as consultant/advisor to leaders who run the key organizations making eco-mobility a viable future. Sitting on Boards for key tech-companies, key NGOs. Completed 7+ years at Cisco global hq in 2017. Pulbished more than 400 articles to spotlight innovations in such places as TIME Magazine. Blogs regularly at MeetingoftheMinds.org; tweets constantly @GordonFeller.

Juan José García Gabian

Beasain Asia Director, Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles, Taipei

Beasain Asia Director, Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles, Taipei

TC Chiang Chiang

Division Director, Information and communications research laboratories. Division for Telematics & Vehicular Control System, Hsinchu

Thierry Mocquiaux

Director of Business Development, RATPDev Transdev ASIA, Hong Kong

Born in 1970, Thierry Mocquiaux is a graduate of the ESIEA (Higher School of Computer Technology, Electronics and Automatic Systems) (1996). After starting his career at RATP as a Maintenance Manager and Operation manager on different Metro, RER and Tramway’s lines (1997-2003) in Paris, he worked as Project manager for the design and operation preparation of the first tramway line in Clermont Ferrand, a city in the center of France (2004-2006). At the end of that posting, he joined RATP DEV Technical Team as Bid manager for international Operation and Maintenance contracts (2007-2009). In 2010, Thierry Mocquiaux joined the Asian Joint Venture RDTA based in Beijing as Technical and Projects Director. In 2012, he was appointed as Board ‘s Director of Hong Kong Tramway Co and beginning of 2014 he moved to Hong Kong as Director of Business Development for ASIA.

Tian Chun Chiang

Division Director, Information and communications research laboratories. Division for Telematics & Vehicular Control System, Hsinchu

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.

Hiroshi Tsuakguthi

Professor, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan

The special field of Hiroshi Tsukaguchi is local area transportation management, including pedestrian traffic, street planning and parking. As for pedestrian traffic, pedestrian route choice behaviour, pedestrian sign system, energy metabolism on pedestrian traffic, and pedestrian travel culture and so on are his current interests. Pedestrian route choice models have been developed in various street networks which can be used for planning residential areas, sign system improvement of tourist areas and large transportation hubs. In order to improve pedestrian environment, appropriate parking management is indispensable. From this point of view, characteristics of driver’s parking place selection were investigated. Based on the studies in the above-mentioned three universities, Tsuakguchi’s work has been expanded to the transportation management projects in the local governments in Kansai Area, Japan.

Johary Anuar

Vice Mayor, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

Pengjun Zhao

Director, Center for Urban Planning and Transport Studies, Peking University

Prof. Pengjun Zhao’s research interests mainly focus on energy-efficient transport system, sustainable mobility, transport inequities and inclusiveness, transit oriented development, walking and cycling. He is a principle investigator for more than 30 projects, and an author for more than 100 publications, including 3 books.

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.

Dawn Chui

Head of Business Development, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation, Hong Kong

Dawn is currently the Head of Business Development for the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP), a government statutory body aiming at transforming Hong Kong into the regional hub for innovation and technology development. She is heavily involved in international and China projects, collaboration with universities and various industry sectors. Dawn is a Doctor of Public Administration (DPA) candidate with a research interest in the Public-Private Partnership governance of railway sector in Asia, at the University of Hong Kong. She also holds a MBA, and being an Accredited Innovation Assessment consultant. Prior to joining HKSTP, she serviced for many years as the Head of Asia-Pacific at the International Association of Public Transport (UITP), who launched initiatives including the UITP Asia-Pacific Centre for Transport Excellence, UITP Pavilion at Shanghai Expo, and many other regional mobility initiatives.

Michael Glotz-Richter

Senior Project Manager‚ Sustainable Mobility, City of Bremen, Germany

Michael Glotz-Richter is ‘senior project manager for sustainable mobility’ at the City of Bremen (pop 560,000) in Northern Germany – and has been responsible for many internationally recognised projects in the field of Car Sharing, promoting walking and cycling, intermodal services and alternative propulsion. Bremen was selected with its Car-Sharing strategies being Urban Best Practice to be presented at the World EXPO 2010 in Shanghai/China (“Better City – Better Life”). Bremen was awarded with European SUMP Award 2015 for its Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan.

Shiaw-shyan Luo

Associate Professor and Dean of General Affairs, Chinese Institute of Transportation, former Director-General of Taipei Transport Bureau

Luo is an Associate Professor and Dean of General Affairs at the Department of Transportation Management at the Tamkang University since 1987, particularly lecturing and researching on traffic planning, traffic engineering, transportation management and transportation system safety. From 2006 to 2010, he was the Director-General of the Transport Bureau of the City of Taipei. With "people-oriented" and "sustainable development" as the core values ​​of governance, the development of Taipei's traffic from the traditional hardware-oriented software service was promoted, and the public was provided with multi-modal transportation system with the aim of creating a safe, friendly and courteous city. He aims to improve last-mile connectivity and provision of seamless public transport services with several large-scale development, including provision of hybrid buses, smiling bike public bicycle rental system, construction of Taipei Transit Station, various transit stations, e-bus, real time traffic information network, smart road system. Most importantly, a public initiative to provide senior citizens and the vulnerable residents through high-quality and door-to-door transport services.

Susan Zielinski

Independent mobility innovator, consultant and writer, Canada; former managing director of Sustainable Mobility & Accessibility Research & Transformation (SMART), University of Michigan, USA

Ms. Zielinski works to advance sustainable transportation systems and the innovation and enterprise to supply them. While at SMART at the University of Michigan in addition to advising and collaborating with industry, government, and non-profits, she developed a practical multi-modal systems methodology for leaders that she and her team have led in over 25 cities worldwide. She also developed the global Mobi Prize and platform. Before SMART, she was a Harvard Loeb Fellow, and before that a sustainable transportation lead at the City of Toronto. There she hosted a seminal summit in 1998 called Moving the Economy, and subsequently commissioned the first open study on the emerging global New Mobility industry. With more than 30 years of experience working across sectors on sustainable transportation systems, she is a sought-after expert, speaker and mentor in the urban planning and transportation field.

Tonny Agus Setiono

Chief of Planning Division, Greater Jakarta Transport Authority, Ministry of Transport, Jakarta, Indonesia

Yizhen Wu

City Councillor, Kaohsiung

Hsin-Wen Chang

Chair and Professor, Department of Leisure and Recreation Management, Chung Hwa University, Hsinchu

Chang is committed to the study of public bicycle related issues, and actively promotes the "Bicycle Friendly Environment Plan", a cross-sectoral plan integrating tourism and recreation industry, bicycle, and urban environmental planning. She is actively advocating for bicycle policy planning, connecting with internationalcommunity. She is also a key figure bringing in the Velo City Global Congress 2016 to Taipei, the first in Asia.

Johannes Grobler

Public and Active Transport Manager, Brisbane Infrastructure, Transport Planning and Strategy division, Brisbane, Australia

Karim Tarif

CEO, Hawa Dawa air quality monitoring company, Munich, Germany

Maosong Zhou

Chief Engineer, Guangzhou Urban Planning and Design Survey Research, Guangzhou, China

Maosong Zhou is responsible for or participated in nearly 100 transportation planning and design projects,has rich experience in urban transportation planning, public transportation planning and transportation design field.

Todd Litman

Executive Director, Victoria Transport Policy Institute, Canada

Todd Litman is founder and executive director of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute, an independent research organization dedicated to developing innovative solutions to transport problems. His work helps expand the range of impacts and options considered in transportation decision-making, improve evaluation methods, and make specialized technical concepts accessible to a larger audience. He has worked in more than two dozen countries, on every continent except Antarctica. His research is used worldwide in transport planning and policy analysis. Litman has published dozens of peer-reviewed articles and reports. He authored the Online TDM Encyclopedia, a comprehensive Internet resource for identifying and evaluating mobility management strategies; Transportation Cost and Benefit Analysis: Techniques, Estimates and Implications, a comprehensive study which provides cost and benefit information in an easy-to-apply format; and Parking Management Best Practices, a comprehensive book on innovative management solutions to parking problems.

Trinnawat Suwanprik

Sanitary Researcher, Chiang Mai municipality, Thailand

Trinnawat Suwanprik, Sanitary Researcher, Chiang Mai municipality, Thailand

Catarina Freitas

Director-General, Department for Energy, Climate, Environment and Mobility, Almada, Portugal

Catarina Freitas coordinates the development and implementation of the Local Strategy for Sustainable Mobility, which aims at achieving a smart and eco-efficient mobility system in Almada. Among other, Catarina is coordinating the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan of Almada, PUMA and the development and implementation of sectoral plans emanating from PUMA, such as Almada’s Cycling Plan, the Sustainable Urban Logistics Plan or the Electric Mobility Plan. All these different strategic plans are being developed and implemented in an integrated manner, privileging the reduction of energy consumption to achieve a low carbon mobility system, which can contribute for the global effort of 80 % GHG reduction for 2050, as well as responding to the daily needs of inhabitants, businesses and visitors.

Jungho Kwon

Director-General, Changwon, South Korea

Mr. Kwon is Director General of the bureau of Security, Construction and Transportation, responsible for all of construction and transportation policies. He severed as Director General of the Administration Bureau.

Leah Treat

Director, City of Portland Bureau of Transportation, Portland, Oregon, USA

Li Ming Hsu

Deputy Mayor, Kaohsiung

Luis Ramon Carrillo Perez

Project Vice Director, Área Metropolitana del Valle de Aburra, Colombia

Luis Perez Carrillo, a mechanical engineer and specialist in project preparation and evaluation at the University of Antioquia, Columbia, together with the urban transportation studies at the University of Lund, Sweden. He worked on the implementation of the metro of Medellin and was the ideologist of the use of aerial cable systems as an alternative to environmentally sustainable urban transport in hillside areas. He was the director of studies and construction of the metro cable system of Medellin, a pioneer in this technology worldwide.

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.

Björn Hannappel

Head of Responsibility Strategy & Standards, Deutsche Post DHL Group, Bonn, Germany

Björn Hannappel is heading the team “Responsibility Strategy & Standards” within the central department Corporate Communications and Responsibility of Deutsche Post DHL Group. He is responsible for all strategic projects with regards to the company’s environmental protection program GoGreen. In addition he is responsible for the topic of Responsible Business Practice for the Group, which includes the areas of Governance, People and Environment. As a project lead he developed the new Group-wide GoGreen Strategy: Mission 2050 – Zero Emissions. Further topics in his area of responsibility include carbon accounting, environmental rankings and ratings, GoGreen sales support, green policies and guidelines as well as stakeholder dialogues.

Boyong Wang

Smart Freight Centre, Beijing, China

Mr. Boyong Wang is working with the Smart Trucks Platform in identifying, developing and signposting global best practices in sustainable truck fleet management. He is leading on comparative studies helping Beijing and other Chinese cities in developing sustainable urban freight strategy, implementing Smart Transport Manager’s Training Programme in China and promoting other Smart Freight Solutions. Previously, he developed and managed the low-carbon mobility/transport component of the China Swiss Low Carbon City Programme and managed CATCH (Carbon Aware Travel CHoice), an EU program on open decision-making, targeting decision-makers in cities and providing a unique angle for EU China cooperation on carbon emissions. Other experience in his background includes communications and eGovernance projects, including setting up application on interoperability, system development, smart card systems, and emergency response system based on GIS. He holds an MA in International Relations from Beijing Foreign Affairs College and an MA in Economics/International Affairs from Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

Catarina Freitas

Director-General, Department for Energy, Climate, Environment and Mobility, Almada, Portugal

Catarina Freitas coordinates the development and implementation of the Local Strategy for Sustainable Mobility, which aims at achieving a smart and eco-efficient mobility system in Almada. Among other, Catarina is coordinating the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan of Almada, PUMA and the development and implementation of sectoral plans emanating from PUMA, such as Almada’s Cycling Plan, the Sustainable Urban Logistics Plan or the Electric Mobility Plan. All these different strategic plans are being developed and implemented in an integrated manner, privileging the reduction of energy consumption to achieve a low carbon mobility system, which can contribute for the global effort of 80 % GHG reduction for 2050, as well as responding to the daily needs of inhabitants, businesses and visitors.

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.

Tien-Kuei Kuo

President, Taiwan International Ports Corporation Ltd., Taipei

Kuo has a background in civil engineering and public policy. In this career, he has served Kaohsiung city in various capacity including engineering, leisure, teaching, ecology, culture, public business and others. As a Deputy Director of the Cultural Bureau, he uphold the spirit of “advancing with times, innovation and change”. Through this, he managed to transform Kaohsiung’s port warehouses into famous cultural attractions. As the general manager of the port company, he actively lead the company to the international scene, including continuous promotion of cruise ships, yacht terminals, and port business, and a more protected port environment. The ports is the only port within the Asia Pacific region receiving certification as ecological port due to the international exchanges on green port construction measures and best practices.

Chi-Chung Hsiung

Chief Secretary, Department of Transportation, Taoyuan

Chi-Chung Hsiung, Chief Secretary, Department of Transportation, Taoyuan

Haji Ismail bin Md. Salleh

President, ITS Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Jia-Ru Li

CEO, LILEE Systems, San Jose, USA

Murphy Sun

Executive Vice President, Intelligent Transport System (ITS) Taiwan, Taipei

Murphy Sun is the Executive V.P. of ITS Taiwan, AP-BOD of ITS Taiwan, Executive Supervisor of TTIA and also the General Manager of Sunsky International LTD. He is an EMBA graduate from Royal Roads University。 ITS Taiwan was established in 1998, and has development for 20 decades. We are willing to develop Taiwan as a ITS island, so we proposed 5S Principles including Seamless Traffic, Information Sharing, Safe driving, Smooth traffic, and Sustainable model.

Sorawit Narupiti

ITS Thailand and Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Sorawit Narupiti is an Associate Professor at Department of Civil Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, where he served as Head of Department from 2012 to 2015. He specializes in transportation and traffic engineering especially Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), sustainable mobility, and transport policy. He has been conducting research and development on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) for more than 20 years. He is involved in ITS activities in Thailand. He served as President of Thai ITS Association (ITS Thailand) from 2008-2012 and from 2017-present. He is also active in ITS activities in Asia-Pacific region.

Bryony Cooper

Associate, City+Co, Australia

Bryony was the Executive Manager City Access at the City of Sydney, from 2014 and 2017. In this role she was responsible for transport policy, planning and the development of the walking and cycling network. At the City, Bryony worked to ensure future transport networks and services will support economic growth and bring holistic benefits, through increased transit use, walking and cycling. Now, as a City+Co Associate, Bryony is supporting the urban conversation on city growth and the integration of land use and transport, and advocating for local involvement in objective setting and defining urban future outcomes. City+Co works to support the realisation of connected, resilient urban communities, able to embrace future challenges and opportunities. Bryony has a background in strategic urban and transport planning. She is currently working across a range of transport and land use projects in Sydney, including major new urban developments, transit infrastructure and service integration, walking and cycling network development, improving accessibility and reducing car dependency.

Hui-Sheng Feng

Deputy Director, Transportation Bureau, Taichung City

Hui-Sheng Feng, Deputy Director, Transportation Bureau, Taichung City

Leung Siqing

Deputy Director, Urban Planning&Design Institute of Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

Sheng-Wei Wang

Commissioner, Transport Bureau, New Taipei City

Todd Litman

Executive Director, Victoria Transport Policy Institute, Canada

Todd Litman is founder and executive director of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute, an independent research organization dedicated to developing innovative solutions to transport problems. His work helps expand the range of impacts and options considered in transportation decision-making, improve evaluation methods, and make specialized technical concepts accessible to a larger audience. He has worked in more than two dozen countries, on every continent except Antarctica. His research is used worldwide in transport planning and policy analysis. Litman has published dozens of peer-reviewed articles and reports. He authored the Online TDM Encyclopedia, a comprehensive Internet resource for identifying and evaluating mobility management strategies; Transportation Cost and Benefit Analysis: Techniques, Estimates and Implications, a comprehensive study which provides cost and benefit information in an easy-to-apply format; and Parking Management Best Practices, a comprehensive book on innovative management solutions to parking problems.

Vishesh Sarangal

Additional Commissioner, Ludhiana, India

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.