Our People

Come on a journey with us.

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.

For job opportunities see here.
Alan Lewis, Technical Director
Alicia LaRoche, Program Manager, Sustainable Freight Buyers Alliance
Ana Dahlin, Assurance Manager
Andrea Schoen, Program Director, Clean Air Transport
Boyong Wang, Director, SFC China
Christoph Wolff, Chief Executive Officer
Claire Skudder, HR Manager
Dan Smith, Program Director
Daniel Gao 高亮 SFCC Industry Relation Manager
Ellen Luning, Program Coordinator
Emma Kleijn, Business Development Support
Gabriela Rubio Domingo, Jr. Technical Manager
Haiming Xie, Expert Consultant, SFC China
James Sumner, Senior Technical Manager
Kathrin Schuller, Program Manager
Lily Ouyang, Program Coordinator
Lorenzo Di Francescantonio, Communications Coordinator
Lydia van Wijngaarden, Finance Assistant
Maaike Posthuma, Program Manager
Maartje Steenvoorden, Communications Specialist
Marcus Lomax, Technical Manager
Marie Franken, Operations Intern
Marjolein van Wijngaarden, Communications Coordinator
Megan Etheridge, Communications Manager
Mehul Khandelwal, Junior Technical Manager
Mingyang Zheng, ZEFI Manager, SFC China
Mirjam Botman, Operations Director
Neha Trepathi, Program Manager
Rickard Lindström, Clean Cargo Program Manager
Rik Arends, SFBA Director
Rocío Espinosa, Business Development Manager
Ronald Halim, Technical Manager MultiRELOAD
Ruben van Doorn - Fleet Electrification Expert
Shixin Li, Communications Manager, SFC China
Su Song 宋苏 SFCC Technical Consultant
Su Li, Office Manager and Project Manager, SFC China
Tharsis Teoh, Technical Manager
Tuul Erdenebold, Junior Technical Manager
Viktoriia Mazurik, Office Manager
Violetta Matzoros, Technical Manager
Yan Peng, Strategic Advisor and Chair China Expert Council, SFC China
Zsófia Mészáros, Program Coordinator

Board of Directors

Adrian Weiler (Chairman), CEO of 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
Claire Bryant, Sustainability Leader at GE Gas Power
Curt Rousseau, Senior Director, Applications Development at UPS
Ian Wainwright, Sustainable Urban Freight specialist and former Head of Freight and Fleet Programmes, Transport for London
Jan Fransoo, Professor of Operations Management & Logistics, University of Tilburg
Suzanne Greene, Global Procurement Sustainability and Advocacy Leader, DOW
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
Laetitia DaBlanc, Director of Research, IFSTTAR/ Université Paris-Est
Ruth Banomyong, Dean, Thammasat Business School, Thammasat University
Sergio Barbarino, Vice-Chair of ALICE (Alliance for Logistics Innovation through Collaboration in Europe)

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)