Advancing Transport Climate Strategies (TraCS)

• Advancing Transport Climate Strategies (TraCS)
• Facilitating the Development of Ambitious Transport Mitigation Actions (TRANSfer)
• Introducing Measures, Pathways and Roadmaps for Optimizing Vehicle Efficiency and Electrification (IMPROVE)
• Mobilize Net-Zero - Facilitating the Global Transport Transformation
• NDC Transport Initiative for Asia (NDC-TIA)
• Rethinking Transport

I am Cluster Coordinator in GIZ’s global ‘Infrastructure and Mobility’ team and responsible for projects funded by the International Climate Initiative. From 2011 to 2015, I was based in Beijing and led the urban mobility team in China. I am an expert in a wide range of topics (e.g. public transport, climate policy, electric mobility) and am passionate about understanding and reducing transport emissions. Before joining GIZ in 2009, I spent 11 years researching sustainable mobility at the German think tank Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy.

• Advancing Transport Climate Strategies (TraCS)
• Introducing Measures, Pathways and Roadmaps for Optimizing Vehicle Efficiency and Electrification (IMPROVE)

After building my professional experience in the European Institutions for 13 years, I joined the Changing Transport team in Bonn in 2023 as technical advisor with a special focus on the partner country, Morocco. The European Union is very much engaged in transforming the transport sector and lower emissions in order to become the first climate neutral continent by 2050. Despite having 27 countries with different approaches, the EU managed to build consensus around this common goal and I want to believe that such ambition can be replicated in the global world.

Growing in a remoted village in France deprived of functioning public transport infrastructures which changed over time to become an attractive place with a road cycling route, I saw how offering accessible and sustainable transport to all could contribute to social cohesion, in addition to being better for the planet and the public health.

• Advancing Transport Climate Strategies (TraCS)
• NDC Transport Initiative for Asia (NDC-TIA)

As a human geographer with a focus on sustainability, I am concerned about people in all regions and their future life on this planet. After an insight into the automotive industry, the urgent need for action regarding transport and climate protection became clear to me. On the one hand, about achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement, and on the other hand, since mobility connects people and enables social participation.

I therefore support the Changing Transport team to raise awareness of problems and barriers in the sector as well as progress in projects in numerous countries through good communication. The GIZ Transport Team has global influence and the potential to make transport more sustainable for the future. Thus, I am very glad to be part of the team since 2021.

• Advancing Transport Climate Strategies (TraCS)
• Promotion of Electric Mobility in Kenya
• Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative (TUMI)

I am Advisor at the Transport and Climate Change at GIZ Kenya, where I have been for 7 years.

I have a background in environmental policy and specific expertise in developing, measuring and verification of mitigation strategies in the transport sector. I have been instrumental in the growth of the transport portfolio in Kenya particularly through project preparations, active ecosystem support measures and partner engagements. I am currently working on a bilateral project on “Promotion of E-Mobility in Kenya” and is also handling activities implemented by the Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative (TUMI) E-bus mission in Africa.

I am particularly motivated to support formalisation of public transport operations in Africa.

• Advancing Transport Climate Strategies (TraCS)
• NDC Transport Initiative for Asia (NDC-TIA)

Joining the NDC-TIA project in 2019 as Viet Nam Component Lead, I am currently supporting the Vietnamese Ministry of Transport in strengthening the policy framework to promote low carbon development and GHG emission reduction in the transport sector, contributing to implement NDC of Viet Nam. At the same time, I am also a Project Officer for the VN- SIPA project where I am responsible for the transport and climate finance component. Prior to this, I worked as a Project Officer for the TraCS project where I supported the government in developing an GHG emission inventory and mitigation actions in the transport sector as a basic principle for climate change policies issue. As an expert in the energy and transport sector, I am passionate about designing transport and climate change strategies which are practical and applicable, to help preserve the environment for many generations to come.

• Advancing Transport Climate Strategies (TraCS)
• International PtX Hub

• Advancing Transport Climate Strategies (TraCS)
• Mobilize Net-Zero - Facilitating the Global Transport Transformation
• Sino-German Cooperation on Low Carbon Transport (CLCT)

After first joining the GIZ Transport Team in August 2021, I am now an advisor for transport and climate change, focusing mainly on international partnerships for transport decarbonization. I believe in a future of mobility that puts people’s needs first, in a manner that is sustainable for the climate and societies. Thus, I am excited to work for GIZ Transport and contribute to the implementation of climate mitigation action in the transport sector.

With a background in Political Sciences and Latin American Studies, my interest in sustainability governance was strengthened in study projects on multimodal urban mobility and energy transitions. Having lived in Germany, Mexico, Argentina and the Netherlands, I experienced the social impact of different transport regimes. I am convinced of fostering livable cities as spaces of exchange and social participation, in which climate change is mitigated and contamination is reduced.

Therefore, I am thrilled to be a part of the GIZ Transport Team and to work on making mobility more sustainable in every dimension.

• Advancing Transport Climate Strategies (TraCS)
• Introducing Measures, Pathways and Roadmaps for Optimizing Vehicle Efficiency and Electrification (IMPROVE)
• Mobilize Net-Zero - Facilitating the Global Transport Transformation

Since 2021 I am part of the Changing Transport Team, responsible for communications, public relations as well as event management for the Transport and Climate Change Week. I studied International Relations in Münster and Amsterdam and am holding a Master’s degree in International Development Studies from the University of Vienna. Before joining GIZ I worked in the field of environmental protection and international marketing. Growing up in the green city of Freiburg, in South-Germany, I grew up caring lot about sustainable mobility and am therefore eager to shifting the paradigm to zero emission transport. 

• Advancing Transport Climate Strategies (TraCS)
• Introducing Measures, Pathways and Roadmaps for Optimizing Vehicle Efficiency and Electrification (IMPROVE)

Since 2017 I am part of GIZ’s sustainable mobility team. I am coordinating the implementation of sustainable mobility projects in 3 Latin American countries and Morocco and contributing to developing new capacity building formats. I am a convinced advocate of the Avoid-Shift-Improve framework to improve our transport systems. Besides transport, I am passionate about a range of other environmental and social topics, especially zero waste approaches and bottom-up climate justice movements.

• Advancing Transport Climate Strategies (TraCS)
• Introducing Measures, Pathways and Roadmaps for Optimizing Vehicle Efficiency and Electrification (IMPROVE)
• Rethinking Transport

As an urban geographer and a passionate cyclist, I have always been interested in transport and mobility. I am driven by a vision of sustainable mobility that enhances both the quality of human life and of the natural environment.

Having lived in different cities around the world, I highly value international exchange and cooperation. I am convinced that global challenges require cooperative solutions. I am thus glad to support the TraCS project team in aligning transport and climate action plans in emerging economies and developing countries.