Henrik Hololei, Director-General of DG MOVE, European CommissionHenrik is an economist by training and holds degrees from Tallinn Technical University and Aarhus University in Denmark.
He held various positions in the Estonian Government Office between 1995 and 2004. He was mainly responsible for coordinating the work for the Estonian accession to the European Union. In 2001-2002, he was Minister of Economy.
In 2004, he moved to the European Commission as Head of Cabinet of Vice President Siim Kallas until 2013, when he became Deputy Secretary-General.
In October 2015, he became Director-General for Mobility and Transport in the European Commission.
Married, one daughter.
Director-General of DG MOVE
European Commission
Ditte Juul Jørgensen Director-General of DG ENERGY, European CommissionMrs. Ditte Juul Jørgensen took up the position of Director General of DG ENERGY on 1 August 2019.
She joined DG ENERGY from a position as Head of Cabinet of Competition Commissioner Vestager, which she held from 1 November 2014 until 31 July 2019.
Ditte Juul Jørgensen has 27 years of experience in the European Commission. Before being Head of Cabinet she was Director for WTO, Legal Affairs and Trade in Goods in the Commission’s Directorate-General for Trade, where she managed the EU policy and negotiations in the World Trade Organization, legal issues and the EU’s involvement in WTO dispute settlement as well as the EU policy on trade in goods.
Prior to her appointment to Director, she was Head of Unit for dispute settlement and legal issues and Acting Director. She has also been Head of Unit for Trade and Sustainable Development and Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary Issues, and responsible for EU bilateral trade relations.
Her previous experience includes a posting as Head of the Economic Section of the EU Delegation to the United Nations in New York, as well as work at the European Court of Justice and at the European Commission Directorate-General for Competition.
Mrs. Ditte Juul Jørgensen is a graduate in law of the College of Europe, Bruges, and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She is married and has three children.
Director-General of DG ENERGY
European Commission
Karima Delli, MEP, Chair of Transport and Tourism Committee, European ParliamentMrs Delli was elected to the European Parliament in 2009, 2014 and again in 2019. During her second term, she served on the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and moving on to the Committee on Transport and Tourism after the 2014 elections. In 2017, she was elected as Chairwoman of the Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN) and was subsequently re-elected in 2019.
Mrs Delli has always expressed her support for the development of a more sustainable urban mobility model, especially reflected in her own-initiative report on the topic. In her report, she insisted on the importance to redirect urban mobility towards more sustainable modes of transport, with the goal of facing up to the challenges of our century: protecting the climate, public health and promoting the accessibility of mobility.
Convinced that a priority must be given to plans for sustainable urban mobility and clean transport, while actively working on modal shift and inter-modality, she supported and mentioned in her report the UITP objective to double the modal share of public transport by 2025.
Karima Delli was in the Committee of Inquiry into Emission Measurements in the automotive sector, where she was Vice-Chair.
MEP, Chair of Transport and Tourism Committee
European Parliament
Alex Paquot, Head of Unit-Road Transport, DG CLIMA, European CommissionAlex Paquot currently heads the Road Transport Unit in DG CLIMA at the European Commission, in charge of the CO2 emission standards from cars and heavy-duty vehicles. Previously, he was the Head of Unit on Monitoring, Reporting & Verification, supporting the evaluation of climate policy. He also served as an Assistant to the Director-General. Prior to this, he occupied several functions in DG ENV in the field of industrial emissions and waste management.
Head of Unit for Road Transport, DG CLIMA
European Commission
Fotini Ioannidou, Head of Unit for Road Safety, DG MOVE, European CommissionFotini Ioannidou has held the post of Head of Road Safety Unit in the European Commission since January 2017. She was previously Head of the Human Resources Unit from 2012-2016 serving both the Directorate General for Mobility and Transport and the Directorate General for Energy. She has been working for the Commission since 1994. Her work at the Commission has focused mainly on transport policy, including policy and inter-institutional coordination, aviation safety and air traffic management. Before joining the Commission, Ms Ioannidou worked as an IT and telecoms consultant for CAP GEMINI in Paris. She holds a degree in electrical engineering from the Democritus University of Thrace, a Master’s degree in information systems from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Telecommunications of Paris and a Master’s degree in electronics from the University of Paris XI-Orsay.
Head of Unit for Road Safety, DG MOVE
European Commission
Claire Depré, Head of Unit for Intelligent Transport System, DG MOVE, European CommissionClaire Depré is working at the European Commission.
She is leading the unit responsible for Intelligent Transport Systems since 2013 and manages also European policies on alternative fuels infrastructure and urban mobility since 2016. Together with her team, she has contributed to unlock barriers to the access to transport data and in the EU and develop a European agenda in the field of cooperative, connected and automated mobility in road transport.
Head of Unit for Intelligent Transport System, DG MOVE
European Commission
Jean-François Aguinaga Head of Unit for Future Urban & Mobility Systems, DG Research & Innovation, European CommissionJean-François Aguinaga is Head of Unit at the European Commission.
He was trained in leading business schools (INSEAD; Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris). His PhD in roman languages and civilisations was received from the University of Paris, as well as his grade in public administration.
He joined the European Commission in September 1994, within a team in charge of economic co-operation with Latin America.
In 2002, he joined the Directorate General Enterprise and Industry (now DG GROW) as sherpa to elaborate and develop the financial instruments for SMEs (2007-2013), in liaison with the European Investment Fund (EIB Group).
Between 2006 and 2010, he was first responsible for the EIC network, then for the phasing-in of the Enterprise Europe Network, the biggest network of business and innovation services ever set-up with the support of the European Commission.
Between 2011 and 2015, he managed the Unit dealing with “textiles, fashion, design and creative industries” dealing with internal market and industrial policy topics.
In 2015 and 2016, he led the Unit in charge of European standardisation for growth.
Since January 2017, he has managed in DG RTD the Unit in charge of surface transports policy, which merged in 2019 with urban systems.
Head of Unit for Future Urban & Mobility Systems, DG Research & Innovation
European Commission
William Todts, Executive Director, Transport & EnvironmentWilliam is the Executive Director of T&E, steering the organisation to promote, at EU and global level, policy that ensures cleaner, safer, smarter transport. He joined the organisation in 2011. As climate and freight director, William has led the campaign to regulate CO2 emissions from trucks in Europe for the first time. He also campaigned successfully to get cleaner and safer trucks on European roads as well as for the 95 gramme CO2 emissions target that new cars must achieve by 2021.
A Belgian native, William studied history at KU Leuven and European studies at ULB, Brussels, and the University of Geneva. He started his career in Brussels working for a MEP, after which he joined Belgium’s EU presidency team to help negotiate the first CO2 standards for vans. In his spare time he is a ‘cyclo-path’ for two-wheeled transport and at weekends can be found cycling one of the city’s ‘green ways’. William also enjoys reading about classical antiquity especially Rome. He speaks Dutch, English, French and German.
Executive Director
Transport & Environment
Fabrizio Cortesi, Director of Policy and Strategy, Public Affairs - Europe, Huawei TechnologiesHe has 22 years of experience in the telecommunications sector with international companies.
He joined Huawei Technologies in February 2007. Since January 2018, he is the Director of Policy & Strategy, in the Public Affairs European Office, looking after regulatory aspects of 5G, Connected cars, Internet of Things and Broadband networks. He is also the company’s representative in the Policy Task Force-WG6 of 5GAA. Before that, he was director of European Strategy and Industry Development, and senior marketing manager for wireless networks solutions.
Until January 2007 he worked in Nortel Networks, in charge of product line management for several business accounts, then of product marketing for wireless technologies.
In the period 1997-2000, we worked for Ericsson, covering responsibilities roles for network planning, research & development department for mobile networks, business development for applications and services.
He achieved a Master’s in Business Administration in 2010. He graduated in telecommunications engineering at Politecnico University of Milan with a thesis on Services Integration protocols for Multiple Access to Wireless Local Area Networks.
Director of Policy and Strategy, Public Affairs - Europe
Huawei Technologies
Dr. Abayomi Otubushin, Senior Manager of Government and External Affairs, BMWAbayomi started his career as a researcher at the Loughborough Accident Research Unit where he helped to develop a standardised methodology for car accident reconstruction and performed analyses for vehicle manufacturers and government bodies.
He joined the BMW Group in 1997 starting with the development of passive safety concepts. 2000-2014 he specialised in concept development for pedestrian protection systems and represented the European Industry at international level for the development of legislative and consumer pedestrian testing procedures.
In March 2014 he moved to the BMW EU Representative Office where he is responsible for all technical dossiers being worked on by the EU Institutions including Cooperative Connected and Automated Mobility.
Senior Manager of Government and External Affairs
BMW
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