TRANSfer Project

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• Moving Chile
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• NDC Transport Initiative for Asia

Programme Director Transport and Climate Change,
based in Bonn, Germany

I am currently heading GIZ‘s global projects on transport and climate change TraCS and TRANSfer – both funded by the German Ministry for the Environment. From 2011 to 2015, I have lived in Beijing and headed various sustainable transport projects in China. Interested in a broad range of topics (e.g. urban mobility, freight and logistics, green hydrogen (PtX), electromobility), my passion is to understand and reduce transport emissions. Before joining GIZ in 2009, I researched sustainable mobility at the German think tank Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy.

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Project Advisor
Based in Bogotá, Colombia

I am an architect with a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Development from the University of Seoul (South Korea), with expertise in urban regulation, development of public policies, and sustainable urban planning for climate change mitigation projects in the public sector and the field of international cooperation.

I joined GIZ in 2019 to support the structuring of Shared Bike Systems in 4 cities in Colombia (Montería, Bucaramanga, Cali, and Bogotá). Currently, I am supporting TRANSfer and EUROCLIMA+ as a Project Advisor, supporting Colombia’s National Government in the deployment of electric vehicles in mass transit systems, as well as the development of the National Strategy for Active Mobility.

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Technical Advisor
Based in Santiago, Chile

I am an Architect from the Universidad de Valparaíso and hold a Master’s degree in International Relations from the Richmond International University of London. I worked twelve years in Chile in the public sector, at the Municipality of Coquimbo on public infrastructure design, at the Ministry of Education for the implementation of public policies and at the Ministry of Construction as Project Manager of an urban regenaration project. My international experiences comprises an urban development project in Kunming, China and project management in London.

I started working for the GIZ in 2016 as national advisor for the global project Cities Fit for Climate Change and I am currently working as technical advisor for the EUROCLIMA+ Urban Mobility Component supporting the development of a National Urban Mobility Programme (NUMP) in Chile and a National E-mobility Strategy in Uruguay.

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Senior Advisor,
Based in Bogotá, Colombia

I joined TRANSfer in March 2019 and I am working in the development of electric buses in Colombia’s transport systems. After working several years with the Colombian climate change policy advising teams as one of the developers of the greenhouse gas mitigation guidelines for Colombia’s energy and industry sector, I have come to the conclusion that improving transport through alternatives like cycling or the massification of electric vehicles for public transportation could not only improve the way we use energy and its impacts. It also has a huge impact on the way people live and relate with their environment. I want to be part of this transformation.

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Intern TRANSfer
Based in Bonn

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Advisor
Based in Metro Manila, Philippines

My love for transport is fuelled by a frustration with the systemic inefficiencies in the Philippines and a stubborn belief that improvements are possible. I joined TRANSfer in November 2017, after four years with the Philippines’ Department of Transportation (2012-2016) and after pursuing a master’s degree from the University of Leeds (2016-2017). My interests in transport centre on sustainability, policy, and the role of technology in driving positive change.

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Junior Specialist Communications and Public Relations

Based in Bonn, Germany

I recently joined the TRANSfer team to support it with the organisation of the next Transport and Climate Change Week in 2021 as well as with networking, communications, and public relations. I hold a bachelor’s and master’s degree in European Studies with a focus on International Migration and International Development. In my previous experience with GIZ I worked in the field of the Agenda 2030 and sustainable development. Therefore I am happy to actively contribute to TRANSfer’s global mission to make transport more sustainable, which not only helps to protect our climate, but also encourages innovation and an improvement of our energy consumption, which ultimately aids to reach the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.

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Based in Bonn, Germany

I joined TRANSfer in September 2018, supporting sustainable transport projects in Thailand, Indonesia and Colombia. I am a passionate urban cyclist and convinced of public transport, but I have learned that especially in emerging economies and developing countries barriers need to be overcome to make transport attractive and climate-friendly. I am keen to contribute to this important project within a great team!

Prior to joining GIZ I have worked at a private German consultancy in the financial sector and at SAP Argentina. During my master studies in Finance, I have worked at the KfW Development Bank in the Competence Center for Environment and Climate. This experience has strengthened my interest in international cooperation and climate finance.

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Project Director 

Based in Bangkok, Thailand

According to Marchetti’s constant the travel time budget is one of the most stable mobility parameters globally and over time and is around one to one and a half hours / day. However, what has not stayed unchanging over the last centuries, but has deteriorated leading to alarming sustainability and climate concerns is the environmental and carbon footprint of individual mobility as well as goods transport, worldwide. The challenge is on!

Since November 2020 I joined the sustainable transport team in Bangkok leading the TRANSfer country component Thailand as well as the SMMR ASEAN project. From 2016 to 2020, I was working for the Sino-German Cooperation on Low Carbon Transport, closely advising the German Environmental Ministry (BMU). Prior to GIZ, I worked at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) Berlin and the German Energy Agency (dena), doing research, assessment and consultancy in the fields of travel demand and behavior modelling, energy use and transformation, as well as emission reduction and efficiency improvement. With a doctorate degree from the Technical University (TU) Berlin on “Integration of passenger (road) travel into a computable general equilibrium model for Germany” I’m passionate about the macro and micro level interactions of economic and environmental systems, individual behavior and policy design.

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Project Manager TRANSfer / EC+ Component
Based in Eschborn, Germany

I am very happy to have joined the Mobility Team in Eschborn as a Project Manager from where I will support both the TRANSfer Project and the Urban Mobility Component of the Euroclimate + Program. For the past nine years I have worked for GIZ in Mexico coordinating the Sustainable Energy Program that covered specific topics on Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Construction. Being a program for almost 10 years, several triangular cooperation projects were generated to share experiences with countries such as Cuba, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Colombia and Argentina. I am a Chemical Engineer with a Master’s degree in Project Engineering and a Master on Business Administration. I am very excited to contribute to this new position and share good times working together.

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Advisor ‘Transport and Climate Change’
Based in Bonn, Germany

I am with the TRANSfer project since February 2019, driving our Indonesia activities as well as a series of toolkits. I have dedicated my career to climate mitigation – which started with 5 years in climate policy and carbon markets in London and Eschborn and then took a turn to sustainable transport. I spent 6 years with GIZ in the rapidly motorizing ASEAN region where I worked with 8 countries and regional institutions on strategies and actions in areas like fuel economy and green freight. I have a Master of Arts degree in Political Science, Economics and Psychology from the University of Bonn.

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Office Manager
Based in Eschborn, Germany

I have been a part of the GIZ transport team in Eschborn since April 2016 as Office Manager. Before this, I worked in an engineering office with a focus on transportation and infrastructure on the international level. I am very happy that I can contribute to climate action in the transport sector. I am especially pleased to work for GIZ and with the people who support transport projects worldwide! My life moto: Save gasoline, ride a bike!

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Technical Advisor

Based in Lima, Peru

I joined the TRANSfer III project as a Technical Advisor in January 2018. Currently I support freight initiatives and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) in Peru. My main goals are to contribute in connectivity and competitiveness by transport services, and my areas of interest are gender, transport, energy and climate change. I am industrial engineering and I’m student of the Environmental Development Master Program at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (PUCP).

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Junior Advisor
Based in Bangkok, Thailand

My interest in urban issues started when I was a child. I was born and raised in Bangkok – Thailand’s capital known for being one of the most congested cities in the world. In my memories, I was spending four to five hours being stuck and struggling on the road every day. Ever since, to extricate Bangkok from this notorious traffic problem and make it a better livable place has been my dream and passion. That was the reason why I decided to study urban and infrastructure planning at Thammasat University and AIT in Bangkok and select transportation as my main topic. In 2017, I was fortunate to be an intern for the Transportation and Climate Change and TRANSfer projects of GIZ Thailand. Before starting as a junior advisor with the TRANSfer project in July 2020, I worked on developing and promoting a crowdsourcing real-world fuel consumption data platform for Thailand called Moverity in a joint project with Toyota.

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Junior Communications Advisor
Based in Bonn, Germany

I have been supporting TRANSfer and TraCS as well as the NDC Transport Initiative for Asia in communications, public relations, network, project and event management in cooperation with international partners since mid 2020.
Within my bachelor’s degree in politics and law, as well as through my previous professional experience, I have specialised in the field of international climate policy and (digital) communication. Apart from the GIZ, I have worked for national and local sustainability and transport projects in Germany and am now excited to exercise my broad experience working for changing-transport.

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Intern TRANSfer
Based in Bonn, Germany

While my background in Political Science is rather broad, the throughline is my passion for all things communication, sustainability, and gender. In my activities as a climate activist, student, or in previous communication internships – these topics always showed up. For instance, my latest term paper dealt with a regional comparison of the inclusion of gender-sensitive efforts within NDCs. On the side, I produce the podcast Strom Aufwärts on renewable energy for Grüner Strom Label e.V.

Hence, I am thrilled to join the TRANSfer project as an intern, where at least two of these fields align. Along with communicating Changing Transport, my main task will be supporting the team of this year’s Transport and Climate Change Week, which I am excited to be a part of.

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Advisor TRANSfer Project
Based in Jakarta, Indonesia

Lena has been in the trade and economic sector more than 15 years, dealing with policy, international development cooperation and the public-private interface. Her expertise’s are in economic, trade, investment, business condition, transport related infrastructure, etc. Master’s degree in Regional Economics and bachelor’s degree in Mathematics.

Being passionate on logistics, supply chain and green environment, she believes effort need to be taken to bring better for future.

Prior joining GIZ, she worked for the UK Foreign Commonwealth Office, EU-ACTIVE program, APEC, JETRO, Global Entrepreneurship Program Indonesia (GEPI), Indonesian Chambers of Commerce, ASEAN-BAC amongst others.

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Technical advisor TRANSfer Project
Based in Bangkok, Thailand

Having a background in economics and sustainable development, I’m interested in all sort of environmental issues and started my career on the topics of renewable energy and energy efficiency. Since I began working with GIZ in 2017, I was able to gain experience on the promotion of natural refrigerants in Thailand’s air conditioning and refrigeration. However, I’ve realized that energy and transportation are becoming more and more interlinked and are in need for a sector integration. This is why it is especially inspiring for me to now work on the transportation sector to enhance the quality of our life and environment.

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Technical Advisor,
Based in Bangkok, Thailand

I joined GIZ in 2012 and since then I have been working on the development of sustainable transport policies in the ASEAN region with a focus on Thailand and Vietnam. I recently supported the Thai Government in the design of the Transport NAMA “People Centred Urban Mobility in Thailand”. My main areas of interest and expertise are MRV and urban transport policy. I hold a Master degree in Polymer Science from Chulalongkorn University.

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Intern in portfolio management of the BMU Project Cluster Transport and PtX, based in Bonn, Germany

Since October 2020, I have been supporting the Changing Transport Team as an intern in portfolio management. As a current student of International Economics and Development (B.A.) at the University of Bayreuth, I have a great interest in international cooperation as well as climate policy.

In order to tackle the climate crisis, I believe that humans from the Global North and South have to cooperate more closely in climate change mitigation and share their knowledge. Both transport and energy sectors play a crucial role in this and need to be decarbonised to limit global warming.

I am therefore very happy to join the team and to contribute to the realization of international climate protection within GIZ’s mobility and PtX projects in the Global South.

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Junior Advisor
Based in Jakarta, Indonesia

I joined TRANSfer in April 2019 as junior advisor in Indonesia. I hold a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Indonesia and I have focused my studies on transportation planning.

As a person who lives and works in Indonesia, I see a lot of problems in the field of transportation that need to be solved. By joining the TRANSfer project, I hope that I can contribute to provide ready-to-implement actions as a solution to increase the efforts of developing countries and emerging economies for climate-friendly transport.

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Office Manager
Bonn, Germany

I have been supporting the team since June 2020 as office manager.

Since August 2016, I have been working for G520 in the area of rural development, agriculture. (Global project and sector project soil). Before that, I worked for Deutsche Telekom with a focus on business customer care and complaint management.

I am very pleased to be able to support my colleagues.

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