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Driven, professional and collaborative – the people behind Smart Freight are all propelled by a belief in what we do. Our team, Board, Advisory Council and China Expert Council share a sense of urgency that the global freight and logistics sector must make a bigger contribution to the climate and sustainability movement.
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Management
Programs and Technical Team
Business Development and Training
Operations
Communications
Regional Office: SFC China
Regional Office: SFC India
Board of Directors
- Adrian Weiler (Chairman), CEO, INFORM, Germany
- Jiangyan Wang, Executive Director of the China Sustainable Transportation Center, China
- Jose Viegas, Chairman of the Environment and Sustainability Board at EDP, and former Secretary-General of the International Transport Forum at the OECD
- Ann Lee Carpenter, CEO and Co-Founder of Braid Theory
- Christoph Wolff, CEO, Smart Freight Centre
- Sophie Punte, Managing Director of Policy at We Mean Business and Founder of Smart Freight Centre
SFC Advisory Council
Our Advisory Council consists of leading experts from academic institutions, international organizations and business to ensure that SFC’s activities are best positioned to accelerate and scale energy efficiency and emission reductions in the freight sector and strengthen other efforts to achieve this mission.
- Alan C. McKinnon, Head of Logistics Department & Professor of Logistics, Kuehne Logistics University
- Alison Clafin, Director of Business Development – Maersk GTD
- Angie Farrag-Thibault, Industry Decarbonization Manager - Sustainable Freight Portfolio Lead, World Economic Forum
- Claire Bryant, Sustainability Leader at GE Gas Power
- Herman Sips, Senior International Policy Coordinator Sustainable Mobility, Ministry Infrastructure and Water Management of Netherlands
- Ian Wainwright, Sustainable Urban Freight specialist and former Head of Freight and Fleet Programmes, Transport for London
- Jari Kauppila, Head of Quantitative Policy Analysis and Foresight at International Transport Forum at the OECD, and Adjunct Professor in Transport Economics, Turku School of Economics
- Jorge Tesler, Director of Centro de Logística y Sustentabilidad-Argentina
- Kathrin Brost, Vice President, Global Head of GoGreen Program, DHL Global Forwarding
- Laetitia Dablanc, Professor at the University Gustave Eiffel in France
- Mads Stensen, Head of Sustainability for Key Clients, Maersk
- Peter Harris, Vice President, International Sustainability, UPS
- Rasmus Valanko, Managing Director, Systems Transformation, We Mean Business
- Ruth Banomyong, Dean, Thammasat Business School, Thammasat University
- Sandra Roling, Director of Transport, Climate Group / EV100
- Sergio Barbarino, Vice-Chair, ALICE
- Suzanne Greene, Global Procurement Sustainability and Advocacy Leader, DOW
- Thomas Deloison, Director Mobility, WBCSD (World Business Council for Sustainable Development)
China Expert Council
The China Expert Council comprises leading experts on freight and logistics in China, covering business, policy and research perspectives. The council gives advice on our China strategy and take a lead role in our activities in China, especially the Smart Freight Forum.
- Charles Wang, Director of the Center for Logistics and SCM, China Development Institute
- Dalei Huang, Director of the Logistics Technology Center, COSCO Network e-Logistics
- Jian Wang, General Manager, Sunjex Logistics
- Jifu Guo, Director, Beijing Transport Research Institute
- Jonathan Xue, Head of Global Transportation Business, Shenzhen DJ Innovation
- Liu Liang, General Manager, China Merchant Logistics Holding Beijing Co. Ltd
- Mats Harborn, Executive Director of Scania China Strategic Center, Scania
- Yan Peng, Independent Consultant on Low Carbon and Sustainable Social Development
- Yang Dongbo, Director of Energy Saving and Carbon Emission Research Department, Research Institute of Highways (RIOH)
- Zhao Lei, Associate Professor, Tsinghua University
- Zhou Zhicheng, Director of the Research Department, China Federation of Logistics Purchasing (CFLP)