Mr. Wil Botman (confirmed)
Director General
Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, FIA Brussels
Wil (of Dutch nationality) was trained as a research psychologist (graduated with distinction). After having worked six years for a marketing research agency, he joined the Royal Dutch Touring and Automobile Club (ANWB). During his 28 years with the organization, he worked in personnel development, and the management of marketing, was director of the ANWB’s helicopter emergency medical services and most recently director of international relations.
page topMr. Nick Ford (confirmed)
Senior Automotive Consultant - Hybrid and EVs
Frost and Sullivan
Nick has worked closely with business planning functions, providing strategy guidance and market development support throughout his career.
In his previous role he was Product Planning Director at TRW with global responsibility for their £3 billion automotive steering business providing strategy guidance for their electric steering products. Prior to this Nick was responsible for leading Lucas/TRW’s developments in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems technologies including ACC and Lane Departure Warning and was instrumental in setting up a JV company with Thales for 77 GHz radar sensor development and production.
Nick has 13 years of automotive experience preceded by 23 years in Aerospace and Defence at British Aerospace and Lucas. As well as holding senior management positions in these corporations, Nick has been MD of EMM Computers, a technology start up company which exceeded $ 1 million turnover in its first year of operation.
Since joining Frost & Sullivan in 2004 Nick has been working closely with senior executives in the automotive domain developing their business and product strategy.
Mr. Helmut Morsi (confirmed)
Deputy Head of Unit
International Transport Relations & Trans-European Transport Network Policy
After his natural sciences studies and receiving his Master degree in Physics in 1982 and his PhD in 1985 at Bonn University in Germany, Mr Morsi began his career as researcher in different institutes of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. In 1988 he worked with patent lawyers Andrejewski, Honke and partners at Essen, Germany. He was then participating as a core team member in Euratom’s Joint European Torus experiment at Oxford in the United Kingdom during 1989-1993 (energy: thermonuclear fusion).
Since 1994 he managed/created various funding programmes for research and transport at the European Commission in Brussels (Training & Mobility of Researchers Networks – all fields of research, High-Level Scientific Conferences & EuroConferences – all fields of research, Management of EURATOM Associations).
After implementing the Marco Polo I programme and creating the Marco Polo II programme, he is currently the deputy head of TREN-B1 "International Transport Relations & TEN-T Policy" and the TENtec Team Leader. The TENtec Information System: using IT to support the coordination of all stakeholders and manage all data relevant to TEN-T. He has a special interest in innovation for transport, de-carbonisation of energy supply and Agenda 2020.
page topMr. Rolf Stromberger (confirmed)
Director Environment and Economics
European Automobile Manufacturers' Association - ACEA
Mr. Stromberger joined the European Car Manufacturers Association in 2008 where he is especially responsible for CO2 relevant topics such as passenger car CO2 legislation, CO2 and light commercial vehicles, electric vehicles, etc.
He graduated in industrial engineering at the University of Vienna. From 1998 to 2007, he ran the family own car dealership where he has experienced the close relation to the end consumer. In August 2003, he joined the car industry and became a referee for traffic and environment at BMW Group in Munich. At BMW he especially dealt with alternative fuels (particularly hydrogen), general environmental issues, CO2-strategy, Integrated Approach.
Mr. Frederic Sgarbi (confirmed)
Head of unit Sustainable Surface Transport
European Commission
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Policy Officer, Energy Transformation and Renewables in Transport
Transport and Environment, T&E Brussels
Nuša Urbancic is T&E's specialist on fuels and electrification. She joined T&E in 2008 from Greenpeace’s European unit where she worked on the renewable energy campaign. She has also worked as a journalist and translator in Ljubljana and at the French economic mission to Slovenia. Transport & Environment is an independent environmental NGO, whose mission is to promote transport policy based on the principles of sustainable development.
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