Enrico Bonfatti, Managing Editor, Nuova Mobilità, Bergamo Italy

As a long time activist and close observer of transport and environment conditions in his home city Bergamo, and more generally in Italy, Enrico Bonfatti came to realize that good ideas were not circulating well in Italy, not only concepts and projects taking place in other parts of the world but even on leading edge developments in Italy itself. His professional training is in the health field, which brought him early to the idea of healthy transport, namely bicycles, public transport and . . . shoes. As editor his job is to select and adapt articles from World Streets and international media to create a network of support for all those working on challenging issues of sustainable transport throughout Italy. As a transport activist and reporter, he follows closly share/transport projects in Italy and Eruope. --> [more]

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Eric Britton, Share Transport Program Chairman, Paris, France.

Managing Director of EcoPlan International, an independent advisory group in Paris specializing in providing counsel for government and business on policy and decision issues involving social-technical innovation and sustainable development, Eric Britton is serving Kaohsiung 2010 as Program Chairman, with responsibility for content development and international outreach and coordination. He has overall responsibility for organizing the International Advisory Council on Share Transport, and along with Jason Chang serving as co-Moderator of the Plenary Sessions. In recent years Eric's work has concentrated increasingly on the vital transport/climate link, and he has concluded that the most powerful means to achieve better and more sustainable transport is to master the fine art of sharing. -->. [More]

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Dorothy Chan Yuen Tak Fai, Hong Kong

Dr. Dorothy Chan is Deputy Director, School of Professional and Continuing Education, University of Hong Kong and Head of Centre for Logistics & Transport. A fellow member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, she chaired the Membership & Education Committee of the International Council for seven years. She is Fellow of the Centre of Urban Studies and Urban Planning, the University of Hong Kong. She is engaged in the education field and research topics on China and overseas transport projects. She was appointed by the Hong Kong Government as a Member of the Advisory Council on Environment in 2007. The Council is to keep under review the state of the environment in Hong Kong; and advise the Government, through the Secretary for the Environment, on appropriate measures which might be taken to combat pollution of all kinds, and to protect and sustain the environment. --> [more]

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Jason S. K. Chang. Chairman of Asian Programme, Taipei, Taiwan

Professor of Civil Engineering in National Taiwan University, and Visiting Professor of the China Academy of Transport Sciences in Beijing. He has served as Executive Director of Transportation Institute in Taiwan, Chair of ITS Asia Pacific Forum, and Scientific Committee Member of the Eastern Asia Society for Transport Studies, among others. Advisor to the Mayor and Taipei City Government since 1994, Dr. Chang has on numerous occasions served as advisor for promotion of sustainable urban and transportation development to international institutes and NGOs. In April 2006, he created a program to train representatives from more than 80 cities for the first Car Free Day activities in China. He served as Principal Investigator to the program "Green Transport for Chinese Cities" from 2000 to 2003, coordinating demonstration projects in more than fifteen cities. He is now hard at work on and widely sharing his green transport theory of BBMW (Bike + Bus + Metro + Walk) in many cities across Asia. --> [More]

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Lewis Chen. Developing carsharing in Asia. Singapore.

Lewis Chen has been active in promoting the concept of carsharing in Asia. He became the General Manager for NTUC Income Car Co-Op in 2002. He grew the business from 17 locations to 77 with nearly 200 cars in 3 years and at same time maintained a healthy bottom line to build a viable service. He also helped to lead the growth of the Singapore carsharing market together with 3 other carsharing operators where the membership has grown by 5 times from 2002 to 2005. He is now the General Manager of INVERS Asia, where he is helping interested parties in Asian cities to setup and introduce car-sharing service to their community. He is now working on carsharing projects in China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan. From experience the road ahead can be challenging but it can be both fulfilling and rewarding. He believes in sharing as it helps to foster better resource utilisation and it empowers the society to build sustainable growth. --> [more]

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Ali Clabburn, Founder Managing Director of liftshare, Social Entrepreneur, UK

Ali has spent the last 10 years dedicated to helping communities to travel more sustainably. In 1998 whilst in his final year at University, 2 weeks before Google was born, he set up liftshare.com - a clever website which helps people find others travelling the same way as them so they can share their journey. What started in a university bedsit has grown steadily and now he and his team of 20 run the UK's national network of over 600 liftshare schemes for communities and businesses. Membership hit 300,000 in 2009. Liftshare currently saves 40,000 car journeys a day. He is sure that if we make better use of what we have by sharing then we can make huge reductions in the re-sources we need. Ali and his team have been awarded the Queen's Award for Innovation through Technology, Business Commitment to the Environment Award 2007, Business in the Community National Award for Excellence, Essence of the Entrepreneur Award and the Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. --> [more]

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Michael Glotz-Richter. Senior manager: Sustainable Mobility. Breman, Germany

Michael Glotz-Richter is senior project manager for 'sustainable mobility' for the City of Bremen - responsible for the involvement in International pilot projects on sustainable transport and environmentally friendly mobility. Key objectives of all these projects are the integration of lifestyle issues and urban development with transport issues. Car-Sharing is an important element of many projects - as in the European moses-project and the ongoing momo-project - both coordinated by Michael. With these project activities, Bremen became a world-wide recognised city for sustainable transport strategies - especially around Car-Sharing. Bremen is one of three selected showcases of sustainable mobility to be presented on the World Exhibition 2010 in Shanghai - which has with the theme "Better Cities - Better Life" the focus on sustainable urban development. Michael lectures at the Bremen University of Applied Science and is involved in several international networks on sustainable mobility. --> [more]

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Susan Lin, Project Leader

Susan Lin is President of Mega Trans International Corporation. Susan was Deputy Director of the Taipei Children's Transportation Museum and, prior to that, she was a veteran business news reporter and newspaper editor for the China Times and Independence Daily in Taipei, where she was a particularly influential press reporter for the motor vehicle manufacturing industry. Today, besides running Mega Trans, she also volunteers as Advisor to the Motorcycle Safety Association of Taiwan. Susan hopes to bring Car Sharing to the Taiwan Market in the near future.

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Rory McMullan, Project Manager, London, UK

Business Manager at PTRC, which is a specialist in events and training for the transport planning profession, Rory is responsible for assisting the international team to make The World Share Transport Forum a success. Since 2005 he has managed events, training programs and communications for ACT TravelWise, a membership association with over 400 corporate members promoting good practice in travel behaviour change programmes. Earlier he worked in the bicycle business in marketing and product management roles, for Giant and Raleigh Bicycles. While living and working in Taiwan, he organised a series of sustainable transport campaigns. Now based in London he serves on the steering committee for several voluntary organisations including; Carfree UK, Urban Green Fair and Bike Week. --> [more]

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Takayuki Morikawa, Professor, International Research Center for Sustainable Transport and Cities, Nagoya, Japan

Takayuki Morikawa is a professor and program leader for the Land Infrastructure and Transportation Management of the International Research Center for Sustainable Transport and Cities in the Graduate School of Environmental Studies at Nagoya University. His fields of international expertise covers transportation systems analysis, travel behavior analysis, and environmentally sustainable transport. After completing a graduate program in the Dept. of Transportation Engineering of Kyoto University, (Master of Engineering), he went on to earn a PhD in the Graduate School of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept of Civil Engineering. More - http://www.trans.civil.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~morikawa/morikawa-e.htm

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David Ta-Wei Poo. - Program Director. Banciao City, Taiwan

David Poo is Chairman of Mega Trans International Corporation, a company founded to create transit oriented development (TOD) projects. David has worked extensively in the Greater China region and Asia as a transport consultant. He is better known in Taiwan as the former Director General of Taipei's Department of Transportation, where he initiated a network of exclusive bus lanes that greatly alleviated travel congestion in Taipei some 15 years ago. A life-long proponent for pedestrian and transit priority in our cities, David continues to work on bringing sustainable transport concepts to the attention of city leaders and planning and engineering professionals. As a firm believer of creating win-win solutions, he is also working on the creation of business models that will allow for-profit businesses to have greater participation in sustainable transport development.

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