Transforming Transportation 2023 was the 20th anniversary of the conference, and came at a time of profound change for transport and global development. Sessions paid special attention to ongoing challenges such as climate change, COVID-19, and macroeconomic instability, taking the current context as a starting point to reimagine transport and make it more inclusive, safe, sustainable, and efficient.
Plenaries and sessions were livestreamed in English.
Transforming Transportation 2023 was moderated by Femi Oke, Journalist and Founder of Moderate The Panel.
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Op-Eds & Blogs:
Presentations:
Plenary 3: Andrew Steer, President & CEO, Bezos Earth Fund
Session 5: Inter-American Development Bank
Session 6:
Lee Schipper Memorial Scholarship Award:
Robert Ambunda, School of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Namibia
Lucía Game, Transportation Engineering, University of California at Berkeley
Session 7:
Session 10: Heather Thompson, Chief Executive Officer, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy
Session 12: Joseph Dixon Callisto Pryor, Senior Climate Change Specialist, World Bank
Session 15: Matias Herrera Dappe, Senior Economist, World Bank
Full Agenda:
| Jump to: | DAY TWO |
MARCH 14 DAY ONE |
Eastern Standard Time/UTC-05:00 |
MAIN STAGE
| 7:30 - 8:30 EST | Registration | |
| 8:30 - 9:00 Preston Auditorium |
Welcome Address |
Guangzhe Chen, Vice President for Infrastructure, World
Bank Ani Dasgupta, President & CEO, World Resources Institute |
| 9:00 - 9:20 Preston Auditorium |
Opening Keynote | Bertrand Piccard, Serial Explorer, Psychiatrist and Environmentalist |
| 9:20 - 10:00 Preston Auditorium |
Local to Global: Mayors’ Perspectives on Sustainable Mobility Today |
Atiqul Islam, Mayor of Dhaka, Bangladesh Rafael López Aliaga, Mayor of Lima, Peru Maina Celidonio, Secretary of Transport, City of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Elizabeth Kwatsoe Tawiah Sackey, Metropolitan Chief Executive, Accra Metropolitan Assembly, Ghana |
| 10:00 - 11:15 Preston Auditorium |
Plenary 1 - Decarbonizing Mobility: Safer, Greener Transport for All |
Axel van Trotsenburg, Managing Director, Operations,
World Bank Elaine Buckberg, Chief Economist, General Motors Holmes Hummel, Managing Director, Energy Equity and Just Transitions, Stanford University Mohamed Mezghani, Secretary General, International Association of Public Transport Felipe A Ramirez Buitrago, Urban Mobility Director, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Coffee Break | Networking & Exhibition Hall |
| 11:30 - 12:45 Preston Auditorium |
Plenary 2 - Untangling Global Supply Chains: How to Make Green and Resilient Logistics a Reality |
Patrick Achi, Prime Minister of Côte D’Ivoire Ousmane Diagana, Regional Vice President, Western & Central Africa, World Bank Marc Levinson, Economist, Historian, and Journalist, Author of The Box Katharine Palmer, Shipping Lead of the UN COP Climate Champions and Global Head of Sustainability, Lloyd’s Register Young Tae Kim, Secretary-General, International Transport Forum Christoph Wolff, Chief Executive Officer, Smart Freight Centre |
| 12:45 - 13:45 | Lunch Break | Networking & Exhibition Hall |
TECHNICAL SESSIONS
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13:45 - 14:45 Preston Auditorium |
Session 1 - Sustainably Scaling up the E-Mobility Transition |
Franz R. Drees-Gross (Moderator), Regional Director for
Infrastructure, Western and Central Africa, World Bank Stephen Perkins, Head of Research and Policy Analysis, International Transport Forum Ben Prochazka, Executive Director, Electrification Coalition Alissa Kendall, Professor, University of California, Davis Ethan Zindler, Head of Americas, BloombergNEF Pawan Mulukutla, Director of Integrated Transport, Electric Mobility & Hydrogen, WRI India |
| MC 13-121 |
Session 2 - Strengthening Transport Resilience and Decarbonization Through
Safer Roads |
Said Dahdah (Moderator), Head of the Global Road Safety Facility and
Global Lead for Road Safety, World Bank Kunal Joshi, Principal Consultant to the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Government of India Anne Joselin, Infrastructure Advisor, Transport Research, Economic Growth Research Team, Research and Evidence Directorate, UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Becky Bavinger, Global Public Health Department, Bloomberg Philanthropies Manuela López Menéndez, Secretary of Transport and Public Works, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina Jeffrey Witte, Executive Director, Amend |
| MC 2-800 |
Session 3 - Shifting Gear: Accelerating Financing and Knowledge-Building
for Active Mobility (Hosted by the Netherlands Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management) |
Lucas Harms (Moderator), Managing Director, Dutch Cycling Embassy
Arlette van Gilst, Director Active Mobility, Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, The Netherlands Claudia Adriazola-Steil, Deputy Director, Global Urban Mobility, and Director, Health & Road Safety, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities Heather Thompson, Chief Executive Officer, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy Rob de Jong, Head of Sustainable Mobility, UN Environment Programme Daniel Ernesto Moser, Senior Transport Specialist, World Bank |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Coffee Break | Networking & Exhibition Hall |
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15:00 - 16:00 Preston Auditorium |
Session 4 - Decarbonizing the Road Freight Sector |
Herman Sips (Moderator), Senior International Policy Coordinator,
Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, Netherlands
François Davenne, Director General, International Union of Railways Jason Mathers, Senior Director, Zero Emission Truck Initiative, Environmental Defense Fund Carmen Nonay, Director, Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank Jessica Olson, Vice President for Policy, CALSTART Christoph Wolff, Chief Executive Officer, Smart Freight Centre Zhen Zhang, Director, EV100 Hydrogen Center, China |
| MC 13-121 |
Session 5 - The Role of Inclusive Mobility as a Catalyst for Sustainable
Development (Hosted by the Inter-American Development Bank) |
Lynn Scholl (Moderator), Lead Transport Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank Ana Maria Pinto, Chief of the Transport Division, Inter-American Development Bank (Download Presentation) Daniel Oviedo, Associate Professor, University College London Tonni Brodber, Representative of the UN Women Multi-Country Office - Caribbean Maria Eugenia Rivas, E-Mobility Regional Project Advisor, United Nations Environmental Program Juan Pablo Bocarejo, Associate Professor, University of Los Andes, Colombia Lake Sagaris, Associate Adjunct Professor, Center for Sustainable Urban Development, Centre of Excellence in Bus Rapid Transit, and The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile |
| MC 2-800 |
Session 6 - Demand-Responsive Transportation Systems for Inclusive
Mobility (Hosted by Korea Transport Institute (KOTI) and Hyundai Motor Company) |
Jaehak Oh (Moderator), President, Korea Transport Institute
Minho Choi, Mayor, Sejong Metropolitan Autonomous City Kyounga Park, Chief Director of the Department of Metropolitan and Urban Transport, Korea Transport Institute (Download Presentation) SooYoung Kim, Vice President of the TaaS Division, Hyundai Motor Company (Download Presentation) Minju Chang, Director, Sejong Metropolitan Autonomous City (Download Presentation) Benedict L.J. Eijbergen, Transport Practice Manager, World Bank Brian Park, Professor in the Engineering Systems and Environment Department, University of Virginia |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Coffee Break | Networking & Exhibition Hall |
MAIN STAGE
| 16:15 - 17:30 Preston Auditorium |
Plenary 3 - How Innovations in Transport Can Accelerate Climate Action |
Andrew Steer, President & CEO, Bezos Earth Fund (Download Presentation) Victoria Sheehan, Executive Director, Transportation Research Board National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine Manuela López Menéndez, Secretary of Transport and Public Works, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina David Mansfield, Chief Financial Officer, VinFast Singapore Binyam Reja, Transport Global Manager, World Bank |
| 17:30 - 17:40 Preston Auditorium |
Celebrating 20 Years of Transforming Transportation |
Nancy Kete, Principal, Kete Consulting Nicolas Peltier-Thiberge, Global Director for Transport, World Bank |
| 17:40 - 19:00 | Reception | Atrium |
MARCH 15 DAY TWO |
Eastern Standard Time/UTC-05:00 |
MAIN STAGE
| 8:00 - 9:00 EST | Registration | |
| 9:00 - 9:45 Preston Auditorium |
Opening Keynote |
Oleksandr Kubrakov, Vice Prime Minister for the
Restoration of Ukraine, the Minister for Communities and Territories
Development and Infrastructure, Ukraine
Anna Bjerde, Regional Vice President, Europe and Central Asia, World Bank Stientje van Veldhoven, Vice President and Regional Director for Europe, World Resources Institute |
| 9:45 - 10:45 Preston Auditorium |
Plenary 4 - Resilient Transport: Navigating Climate Change, Conflict, and Disruptions |
Victoria Kwakwa, Regional Vice President for Eastern and
Southern Africa, World Bank Fardowsa Osman Egal, Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, Somalia Wayan Koster, Governor of Bali, Bali Provincial Government – The Republic of Indonesia Aaron Farrugia, Minister for Transport, Infrastructure, and Capital Projects, Malta François Bausch, Deputy Prime Minister, Luxembourg |
| 10:45 - 10:55 Preston Auditorium |
Lee Schipper Memorial Scholarship Award |
Robert Ambunda, School of Engineering and the Built
Environment, University of Namibia (Download Presentation) Lucía Game, Transportation Engineering, University of California at Berkeley (Download Presentation) |
| 10:55 - 11:10 | Coffee Break | Networking & Exhibition Hall |
TECHNICAL SESSIONS
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11:10 - 12:10 Preston Auditorium |
Session 7 - Leveraging Paratransit Professionalization to Decarbonize Transport in Developing Countries |
Sergio Oliete Josa (Moderator), SSATP Executive Committee Member and Team Leader / Head of Sector, Transport, Infrastructure, Directorate-General for INTPA, European Commission Jacqueline M. Klopp, Director, Center for Sustainable Urban Development, Earth Institute, Climate School, Columbia University (Download Presentation) Iman A. Abubaker, Urban Mobility Project Manager, WRI Africa (Download Presentation) Amanda Ngabirano, Chairperson, National Physical Planning Board-Uganda, and Independent Chairperson of the Kampala Paratransit Consultative Forum, Uganda Nangamso Matebese, Principal Project and Infrastructure Finance Professional, Development Bank of Southern Africa (Download Presentation) |
| MC 13-121 |
Session 8 - Spain Going Green: Transport Innovation to Address Climate
Change (Hosted by ICEX Spain Trade and Investment) |
Sara Canals (Moderator), Washington DC Correspondent, SER
Radio Álvaro Andrés, International Project Manager – ADIF Yolanda Cerezo, Project Director, IDOM Inés Ferguson, Business Development Director, TYPSA Group Félix J. González Yagüe, Strategy Director and Member of the Management Board. Construction Business, ACCIONA Inés Sánchez de Madariaga, UNESCO Chair on Gender Equality Policies in Science, Technology and Innovation, Professor of Urban Planning at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Chair of the Advisory Group on Gender Issues to the Executive Director of UN-Habitat Michael Pellot, International Relations Manager, TMB Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona |
| MC 2-800 |
Session 9 - How to Feed the World in the Midst of a Supply Chain Crisis |
Maria Marcela Silva (Moderator), Infrastructure Regional
Director, World Bank Richard Martin Humphreys, Lead Transport Economist and Global Lead for Transport Connectivity and Logistics, World Bank (Download Presentation) Johan Swinnen, Managing Director of Systems Transformation, CGIAR and Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Barbara van Logchem, Senior Regional Logistics Officer, World Food Program Almud Weitz, Transport Practice Manager, World Bank |
| 12:10 - 13:30 | Lunch Break | Networking & Exhibition Hall |
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13:30 - 14:30 Preston Auditorium |
Session 10 - Electrification and Compact Cities: Roadmap to Success (Hosted by the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) and ClimateWorks Foundation) |
Heather Thompson (Moderator), Chief Executive Officer,
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (Download Presentation) Nicolas Peltier-Thiberge, Global Director for Transport, World Bank Fernanda Rivera, Director of Public Transportation and Licensing, Ministry of Mobility, Mexico City, Mexico Insa Illgen, Project Director Sectorproject Sustainable Mobility/TUMIVolt, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Margarita Parra, Director of Transportation and International Programs, Clean Energy Works |
| MC 13-121 |
Session 11 - Leveraging Finance for Low-Carbon Urban Mobility and the Role
of National Development Banks
(Hosted by Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) and Agence Française de Développement (AFD)) |
Frederic Tesfay (Moderator), Project Manager, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Stéphane Carcas, Deputy Head of the Transport and Mobility Division, Agence Française de Développement, France Barbara Schnell, Director Sector Policy, KfW Development Bank Gora Sarr, BRT Project Coordinator at Conseil Executive des Transports Urbains de Dakar/CETUD Diego Fernando Romero Alvarez, Capital Market Manager, Financiera de Desarrollo Nacional (FDN), Colombia |
| MC 2-800 | Session 12 - Decarbonizing Transport by Influencing Behaviors and Choices |
Jen JungEun Oh (Moderator), Lead Transport Specialist,
Program Leader, World Bank Joseph Dixon Callisto Pryor, Senior Climate Change Specialist, World Bank (Download Presentation) Austin Brown, Former Executive Director, University of California Davis Policy Institute for Energy Environment and the Economy Sameer Kwatra, Policy Director, Natural Resources Defense Council Guo Jifu, Director, Beijing Transport Institute, China Sinem Dedetaş, General Manager, Şehir Hatları, Istanbul, Türkiye Daizong Liu, Director, WRI China Ross Center for Sustainable Cities |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Coffee Break | Networking & Exhibition Hall |
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14:45 - 15:45 Preston Auditorium |
Session 13 - Win-Win: Envisioning the Future of Development Financing in Transport |
Maruxa Cardama (Moderator), Secretary General,
Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport Benjamin Jeromin, Senior Policy Officer, BMZ, Germany Anne Joselin, Infrastructure Advisor – Transport Research, UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Jamie Leather, Chief of Transport Sector Group, Asian Development Bank Binyam Reja, Global Practice Manager, World Bank Ben Simmons, Director of Sustainable Infrastructure and Director, International Institute for Sustainable Development Lise Weidner, Head of Road Division, European Investment Bank |
| MC 13-121 | Session 14 - Public Transport as a Main Pillar of Inclusive Development and Decarbonization |
Shomik Mendiratha (Moderator), Practice Manager SAR,
World Bank M. A. N. Siddique, Managing Director, Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited, Bangladesh Tayyab Farid, Managing Director Punjab Mass Transit Authority, Pakistan Zubair Ahmed Channa, Managing Director Sindh Mass Transit Authority, Pakistan Sinem Dedetaş, General Manager, Şehir Hatları, Istanbul, Türkiye Erica Requi de Souza, Legal Advisor, AMFRI – Multi-Function Consortia of The Municipalities of ValeItajai, Brazil Nick Mackie, Vice President, Global Head of Urban Mobility, Visa Cristina Albuquerque, Urban Mobility Manager, WRI Brasil |
| MC 2-800 | Session 15 - Off the Books: Understanding and Mitigating Fiscal Risks of Transport Infrastructure |
Jean-Francois Marteau (Moderator), Transport Practice Manager, World Bank Matias Herrera Dappe, Senior Economist, World Bank (Download Presentation) Teresa Ter-Minassian, Former Director Fiscal Affairs Department, International Monetary Fund Eduardo Engel, Professor, Universidad de Chile Namita Mehrotra, Finance Director, National Capital Region Transport Corporation, India |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Coffee Break | Networking & Exhibition Hall |
MAIN STAGE
| 16:00 - 17:15 Preston Auditorium |
Plenary 5 - Climate Finance: Leveraging Public and Private Finance to Meet Shared Targets |
Mahua Acharya, Former MD and CEO, Convergence Energy Services Ltd, Government of India Frannie Léautier, CEO of SouthBridge Investment, Kigali Emmanuel B. Nyirinkindi, Vice President of Cross-Cutting Solutions, International Finance Corporation Patrick Steinemann, Managing Director, Co-head of Global Mobility Group, Bank of America Stientje van Veldhoven, Vice President and Regional Director for Europe, World Resources Institute |
| 17:15 - 17:30 Preston Auditorium |
Closing Remarks |
Nicolas Peltier-Thiberge, Global Director for Transport,
World Bank Rogier van den Berg, Global Director, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities |