Financing was a core theme of Transforming Transportation 2024, which brought together global leaders and transport professionals to explore how all stakeholders can mobilize resources for greener, safer, resilient transport for all, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.
During the two-day event, and week-long side activities, transport and financial leaders and professionals took a deep dive into the urgent need for climate financing in transportation; the correlation between investments, economic growth, and climate targets; and the role that organizations of all kinds, from development banks to community groups, can play in driving transformative change.
The closed-door ‘Climate Finance for Transport’ roundtable took place on Monday, March 18, surveying the current practices in financing electric mobility and broader systems change in transport. The agenda is here.
Plenaries and sessions were livestreamed in English.
Transforming Transportation 2024 was moderated by Femi Oke, Journalist and Founder of Moderate The Panel.
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Full Agenda:
| Jump to: | DAY TWO |
MARCH 19 DAY ONE |
Eastern Standard Time/UTC-05:00 |
MAIN STAGE
| 7:45 - 8:45 Preston Lobby |
Registration | |
| 8:45 - 9:00 Preston Auditorium |
Welcome Address |
Guangzhe Chen, Vice President, Infrastructure, The World
Bank Ani Dasgupta, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute |
| 9:00 - 9:30 Preston Auditorium |
Opening Conversation with Practitioners |
Patrick Achi, Center for International Development Senior Fellow, Harvard University and former Prime Minister, Cote d’Ivoire Claudia Lopez, Advanced Leadership Initiative Fellow, Harvard University and former Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia |
| 9:30 - 10:40 Preston Auditorium |
Plenary 1 - Scaling Finance for Low-Carbon Transport This session will deepen into the much-needed transformation towards a low-carbon transportation, and how to leverage public and private financing to achieve the global climate targets. |
WELCOMING REMARKS Ana Maria Ibáñez Londoño, Vice President for Sectors and Knowledge, IADB PANEL DISCUSSION Vijay Kumar Saraswat, Member of NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transformation of India), India Admassu Yilma Tadesse, President and Managing Director, TDB Group Paul Bodnar, Director of Sustainable Finance, Industry, and Diplomacy, Bezos Foundation Frannie Leautier, Senior Partner, SouthBridge Group and CEO, SouthBridge Investment |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | Networking & Exhibition Hall |
| 11:00 - 11:15 |
Conversation With | Vera Songwe, Chair and Founder, Liquidity and Sustainability Facility |
| 11:15 - 12:15 Preston Auditorium |
Plenary 2 - Solutions for Green and Efficient Logistics This session will discuss the importance of efficient logistics in economies, and the opportunities to decarbonize the shipping, aviation, and railways industries. |
KEYNOTE Camilla Jain Holtse, Vice President, Head of Public and Regulatory Affairs, A.P. Moller-Maersk PANEL DISCUSSION Srinivas Enamandram, Joint Secretary Logistics, India Enver İskurt, Deputy Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Türkiye Neo Matjato Moteane, Minister for Transport and Public Works, Lesotho María Constanza García Alicastro, Deputy Minister of Infrastructure, Ministry of Transport, Colombia |
| 12:15 - 13:45 | Lunch Break | Networking & Exhibition Hall |
High-Level Technical Sessions (in parallel)
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13:45 - 14:45 Preston Auditorium |
Session 1 - De-Risking Instruments to Catalyze Private Sector Led E-bus Adoption |
MODERATOR Binyam Reja, Global Practice Manager for Transport, The World Bank PANEL DISCUSSION Vinay Chawla, Senior Advisor of Climate Finance, Office of Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, USA Jessica Farmer, Principal Investment Officer, International Finance Corporation Luis Felipe Vidal Arellano, Secretary of Finance, Sao Paulo, Brazil Sudhendu J. Sinha, Adviser, NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transformation of India), India Hanif Qureshi, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Heavy Industries, India Reda Souirgi, Head of Digital and Mobility Division, French Development Agency (AFD) |
| MC 13-121 |
Session 2 - Accelerating Active Mobility for a Sustainable Tomorrow (Hosted by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management of The Netherlands) |
MODERATOR Mirjam Borsboom, Coordinator International Active Mobility, Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, The Netherlands KEYNOTE Kees van den Burg, Vice Minister of Mobility and Transport, Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, The Netherlands PANEL DISCUSSION Nicolas Peltier, Transport Global Director, The World Bank Rogier van den Berg, Global Director, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities Daphne Gross-Janssen, Deputy Head of Department, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development Chiri Babu Maharjan, Mayor of Lalitpur Metropolitan City, Nepal Heather Thompson, CEO, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy Filip Boelaert, Secretary General, Department Mobility and Public Works, Flanders Region, Belgium Mitku Asmare Setegn, Bureau Head, Addis Ababa City Transport Bureau, Ethiopia |
| MC 2-800 |
Session 3 - Fostering Stability and Resilience through Increased Access and Mobility (Co-Hosted by Helvetas) |
MODERATOR Wendy E. Huges, Infrastructure Regional Director, The World Bank PANEL DISCUSSION Christina Barstow, Director of Strategic Partnerships, Helvetas Krishna Bahadur Katwal, Section Chief and Senior Divisional Engineer, Ministry of Urban Development Rallis Kourkoulis, Partner, Grid Advisors Barbara Dietrich, Director of International Programs, Helvetas Denis Muthike, Geospatial Scientist, Virridy, and Research Faculty, University of Colorado Imtiaz Hussain Shah, Additional Chief Secretary, Planning and Development Department, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan |
| MC 4-800 |
Session 4 - AI and Data for Supporting Transport Investments |
MODERATOR Shomik Raj Mehndiratta, Transport Practice Manager, The World Bank PANEL DISCUSSION Cong Peng, Assistant Professor, National School of Development, Peking University Krishna Bahadur Katwal, Section Chief and Senior Divisional Engineer, Ministry of Urban Development Sveta Milusheva, Senior Economist, Development Impact Department, The World Bank David Zipper, Senior Fellow, MIT Mobility Initiative, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Pierpaolo Cazzola, Director, ETERC, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Coffee Break | Networking & Exhibition Hall |
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15:00 - 16:00 Preston Auditorium |
Session 5 - Climate Finance, Institutions, and Delivery Models |
MODERATOR Holger Dalkmann, Senior Advisor, High Volume Transport Program of FCDO, CEO Sustain 2030 PANEL DISCUSSION Ginette Borduas, Partner, Head of ESG and Sustainability, Meridiam Christopher Aidun, Co-Founder and Partner, Persistent James Leather, Director, Transport Sector Office, Sectors Group, Asian Development Bank Vikram Kumar, Manager, International Finance Corporation Emma Stephenson, Business Manager, Sustainable Mobility Lead, Shell Foundation |
| MC 13-121 |
Session 6 - Spain Going Green: Sustainable Cities for a Livable Planet (Hosted by the ICEX Spain Trade and Investment) |
MODERATOR Sara Canals, Washington DC Correspondent, SER Radio PANEL DISCUSSION Maria Luisa Dominguez, Strategic Plans and Projects Director and Advisor to the Board, ADIF and President, EIM Alberto Alonso, CFO and Strategy Director, EMT Madrid Jorge Muñoz, Electric Mobility Manager, Iberdrola |
| MC 2-800 |
Session 7 - Unleashing Private Financing for Zero-Emission Trucks (Hosted by Smart Freight Center, Co-Hosted by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development) |
MODERATOR Cristiano Facanha, Director of Road Fleet Electrification, Smart Freight Centre OPENING REMARKS Kees van den Burg, Vice Minister of Mobility and Transport, Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, The Netherlands KEYNOTE Nancy Gillis, Senior Director Industrial Pathways Transformation and ELG Member PANEL DISCUSSION Mahua Acharya, Founder, International Energy Transition Platform and former Managing Director and CEO, CESL, India Niklas Reinedahl, General Manager of North America, Einride Sivasubramanian Raman, Chairman and Managing Director, Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) Bruce Marsh, Director Government Affairs, DHL Eleanor Bastian, Principal Program Manager, Amazon CLOSING REMARKS Christoph Wolff, CEO, Smart Freight Centre |
| MC 4-800 |
Session 8 - She Drives Change: Breaking Barriers for Women in Transport |
MODERATOR Insa Illgen, Project Director, Sustainable Mobility, German International Cooperation (GIZ) KEYNOTE Hana Brixi, Global Director for Gender, The World Bank PANEL DISCUSSION Claudia Lopez, Advanced Leadership Initiative Fellow, Harvard University and former Mayor of Bogota, Colombia Alana Dave, Urban Transport Director, International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) Ibrahim Dajani, Transport Practice Manager, The World Bank Naomi Mwaura, Founder, Flone Initiative CLOSING REMARKS Karla Gonzalez Carvajal, Transport Practice Manager, The World Bank |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Coffee Break | Networking & Exhibition Hall |
MAIN STAGE
| 16:15 - 17:15 Preston Auditorium |
Video Address |
Anna Bjerde, Managing Director of Operations, The World Bank |
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Plenary 3 - Financing Inclusive and Safe Mobility This session will highlight the need of promoting greener, safer and more inclusive mobility, including the youth, gender, road safety and health angles. |
KEYNOTE Crystal Asige, Senator, Parliament of Kenya PANEL DISCUSSION Pabel Muñoz, Mayor of Quito, Ecuador Becky Bavinger, Global Public Health Department, Bloomberg Philanthropies Filip Boelaert, Secretary General, Department Mobility and Public Works, Flanders Region, Belgium Alhaji Fanday Turay, Minister of Transport and Aviation, Sierra Leone Alexander Tallon, Senior Safety Strategy Manager, Transport for London |
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| Zoleka Mandela Tribute | ||
| 17:15 - 17:25 Preston Auditorium |
Sustainable Transport Award |
PRESENTER Heather Thompson, CEO, Institute of Transportation and Development Policy AWARDEE Lin Xuefeng, Director General of Tianjin Housing and Urban-Rural Construction Commission, China |
| 17:25 - 17:30 Preston Auditorium |
Sponsor Remarks | Brandon Tidwell, Global Citizenship Advisor, FedEx |
| 17:30 - 20:00 | Cocktail Reception | Atrium |
MARCH 20 DAY TWO |
Eastern Standard Time/UTC-05:00 |
MAIN STAGE
| 7:45 - 8:45 Preston Lobby |
Registration | |
| 8:45 - 9:30 Preston Auditorium |
Conversations with Policymakers |
Mahinda Samarasinghe, Ambassador of Sri Lanka in Washington DC
Juan Carlos Muñoz, Minister of Transport and Telecommunications, Chile Ibrahim Matola, Minister of Energy, Malawi |
| 9:30 - 9:45 Preston Auditorium |
Opening Keynote |
VIDEO ADDRESS Axel van Trotsenburg, Senior Managing Director, The World Bank KEYNOTE Victoria Kwakwa, Vice President, Eastern and Southern Africa, The World Bank |
| 9:45 - 10:45 Preston Auditorium |
Plenary 4 - Resilient Transport in Challenging Times This theme will focus on scaling up financing for transport resilience and adaptation, and integrating adaptation into mitigation finance. |
KEYNOTE Juergen Voegele, Vice President for Sustainable Development, World Bank PANEL DISCUSSION Aspasia (Sissy) Nikolaou, Group Leader, National Institute of Technology and Standards, USA Siti Maimunah, Head of Center of Transportation Infrastructure Financing, Ministry of Transportation, Indonesia Maria Luisa Dominguez, Advisor to the Board, ADIF (Spanish Railways Infrastructure Manager) Christine Ghalechyan, Deputy Minister of Transport, Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure, Armenia Maria Constanza García Alicastro, Deputy Minister of Infrastructure, Ministry of Transport, Colombia |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | Networking & Exhibition Hall |
High-Level Technical Sessions (in parallel)
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11:00 - 12:00 Preston Auditorium |
Session 9 - How the Climate Crisis is Reshaping the Future of Transport in Latin America and the Caribbean (Hosted by the Inter-American Development Bank) |
MODERATOR Ana María Pinto, Transport Division Chief, Inter-American Development Bank PANEL DISCUSSION Susanna Zammataro, Secretary General, International Road Federation Stephen Perkins, Senior Advisor, International Transport Forum Mohammed Mezghani, Secretary General, International Association of Public Transport Juan Carlos Muñoz, Minister of Transport and Telecommunications, Chile |
| MC 13-121 |
Session 10 - Creating Climate-Smart PPPs to Drive Transformation |
MODERATOR Ben Welle, Director of Integrated Transport and Innovation, WRI PANEL DISCUSSION Richard Threlfall, Global Head of Infrastructure, Government and Healthcare (IGH), KPMG International Sergio Avelleda, CEO and Founder of Urucuia Mobilidade, Brazil Kader Hasanne, Senior Investment Director, Africa50 Felipe Ezquerra, Head, Transport at the Infrastructure and Energy Division, IDB Invest Astrid Manroth, Head, Global Infrastructure Facility, The World Bank Rogelio Rivero, Head of Development Banking Unit, Federal Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, Mexico |
| MC 2-800 |
Session 11 - Fleet Recapitalization and Paratransit Professionalization |
MODERATOR Andrea San Gil León, , Executive Director, Global Network for Popular Transportation PANEL DISCUSSION Fernanda Rivera, General Director of Transport, Mobility Secretariat, Mexico City Lénaïc Georgelin, Transport Team Leader, Transport and Urban Development, European Commission (DG INTPA) and SSATP Executive Committee member Thinus Booysen, Professor in Engineering and Research Chair in the Internet of Things, Stellenbosch University Pawan Mulukutla, Executive Program Director of Integrated Transport, Clean Air and Hydrogen, WRI India CLOSING Ibou Diouf, Transport Practice Manager, The World Bank |
| 12:00 - 13:15 | Lunch Break | Networking & Exhibition Hall |
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13:15 - 14:15 Preston Auditorium |
Session 12 - De-risking Finance for Electric 2/3-wheeler Adoption (Co-Hosted by Rocky Mountain Institute) |
MODERATOR Jung Eun Oh, Transport Practice Manager, The World Bank KEYNOTE Clay Stranger, Managing Director, Global Carbon Free Transportation Practice, RMI PANEL DISCUSSION Sivasubramanian Raman, Chairman and Managing Director, Small Industries Development Bank of India Aditya Ramji, Director, India ZEV Research Centre, Institute of Transportation Studies University of California, Davis Gerald Ollivier, Lead Transport Specialist, The World Bank Thanh Ha, Manager, Southeast Asia Program, RMI Sudhendu J. Sinha, Adviser, National Institution for Transformation of India, India Chen Chen, Director for Transport, Asian Development Bank |
| MC 13-121 |
Session 13 - Unlocking Gains from Investing in Road Safety
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MODERATOR Claudia Adriazola-Steil, Deputy Global Urban Mobility Director and the Director of Health and Road Safety, WRI KEYNOTE Kaarina Ruta, Transport Adviser, Welsh Local Government Association PANEL DISCUSSION Charlotte McClain-Nhlapo, Lead Social Development Specialist and Global Disability Advisor, The World Bank Benacer Boulaajoul, Director General, National Road Safety Agency, Morocco Najwa Doughman, Program Manager, Global Designing Cities Initiative Avi Silverman, Deputy Director, FIA Foundation Jacob Smith, Regional Leader, Global Youth Coalition for Road Safety |
| MC 2-800 | Session 14 - Innovation Tools: Drones and Urban Freight |
MODERATOR Boutheina Guermazi, Director, Africa Regional Integration, The World Bank PANEL DISCUSSION Karen Vancluysen, Secretary General, Polis Network Stephanie Kodish, Senior Global Director, Drive to Zero, Calstart Liu Xiaoshi, Executive Deputy Secretary-General, China EV100 Eloisa Rios, Head of Global Strategic Partnerships, Speedbird Aero Cristina Albuquerque, Global Director for Electric Mobility, WRI CLOSING Almud Weitz, Transport Practice Manager, The World Bank |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | Coffee Break | Networking & Exhibition Hall |
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14:30 - 15:30 Preston Auditorium |
Session 15 - Disruptions Everywhere: How to Make Supply Chains Resilient? |
MODERATOR Charles J. Cormier, Infrastructure Regional Director, The World Bank PANEL DISCUSSION Serkan Aslanalp, Deputy Division Chief (STA) and Advisor to the Managing Director, IMF Mona Haddad, Global Director, Trade, Investment and Competitiveness, The World Bank Jan Hoffmann, Chief of Trade Facilitation Section, UNCTAD Hiroaki Yamaguchi, Senior Director, Transport Sector Office, Sectors Group, Asian Development Bank Lulu Xue, Urban Mobility Manager, WRI China |
| MC 13-121 | Session 16 - Creating Jobs Through Youth-Led Innovations in Green Mobility |
MODERATOR Fei Deng, Transport Practice Manager, The World Bank PANEL DISCUSSION Chido Cleopatra Mpemba, Youth Envoy, African Union Damilola Olokesusi, Co-Founder and CEO Shuttlers and SHE-MOVES with Shuttlers, Nigeria Maria Fernanda Ortiz, Head of Transmilenio, Colombia Paula dos Santos, Urban Mobility Manager, WRI Brasil Jiayuan Luo, Investment Officer, Disruptive Technology and Funds Department, IFC |
| MC 2-800 | Session 17 - Green Infrastructure: Climate and Economic Growth Balancing |
MODERATOR Bianca Bianchi Alves, Transport Practice Manager, The World Bank PANEL DISCUSSION Luis Fellipe Arrussul de Melo, Deputy Director and General Coordinator of Railway Concessions, Brazil Maria Constanza García Alicastro, Deputy Minister of Infrastructure, Ministry of Transport, Colombia Imtiaz Hussain Shah, dditional Chief Secretary, Planning and Development Department, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan Ian Twinn, Manager, PPP Advisory Service for LAC, International Finance Corporation |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Coffee Break | Networking & Exhibition Hall |
MAIN STAGE
| 15:45 - 16:45 Preston Auditorium |
Plenary 5 - Rethinking Mobility for More and Better Jobs This session will discuss the opportunities that increasing investment in sustainable urban mobility could bring to unlock economic growth, increase access to opportunities and create jobs while ensuring a just transition. |
PANEL DISCUSSION I Gde Wayan Samsi Gunarta, Secretary of Mobility, Bali Provincial Government, Indonesia Julio Castiglioni, Director, Metro Sao Paulo, Brazil Andrew Herscowitz, Executive Director, ODI North America Sivasubramanian Ramann, Chairman and Managing Director, Small Industry Development Bank of India (SIDBI) Felipe Ramirez Buitrago, Urban Mobility Director, WRI (TBC) |
| 16:45 - 17:00 Preston Auditorium |
Lee Schipper Memorial Scholarship Award |
PRESENTER Holger Dalkmann, Senior Advisor, High Volume Transport Program of FCDO, CEO Sustain 2030 AWARDEES Shanshan Liu, Ph.D. candidate, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Owen Mwaura, Ph.D. candidate, Civil Engineering Department, University of Cape Town Carlos Rivera-Gonzalez, Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Toronto |
| 17:00 - 17:15 Preston Auditorium |
Closing Remarks |
Nicolas Peltier-Thiberge, Transport Global Director,
World Bank Rogier van den Berg, Global Director, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities |
Banner Photo Credit: Clayton Lane; Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, ITDP