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Driven, professional and collaborative – the people behind Smart Freight are all propelled by a belief in what we do. Our team, Board, Advisory Council and China Expert Council share a sense of urgency that the global freight and logistics sector must make a bigger contribution to the climate and sustainability movement.
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Regional Office: SFC China
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Board of Directors
- Adrian Weiler, Chairman, CEO, INFORM, Germany
- Dick Benschop, Former President & CEO at Royal Schiphol Group
- Mats Harborn, Head of TRATON China Office (TRATON Group)
- Jose Viegas, Chairman of the Environment and Sustainability Board at EDP, and former Secretary-General of the International Transport Forum at the OECD
- Ann Lee Carpenter, CEO and Co-Founder of Braid Theory
- Christoph Wolff, CEO, Smart Freight Centre
- Sophie Punte, Founder, Smart Freight Centre
SFC Advisory Council
Council Co-chairs:
- Nico De Golia, Director of Cloud Logistics Sustainability, Microsoft
- Suzanne Greene, Global Purchasing Environmental Sustainability Director & Scope 3 Carbon Subject Matter Expert, DOW
- Alan C. McKinnon, Head of Logistics Department & Professor of Logistics, Kuehne Logistics University
- Alison Clafin, Global Head of Integrated Sales, A.P. Moller – Maersk
- Angie Farrag-Thibault, Associate Vice President Global Transportation, Environmental Defense Fund
- Claire Bryant, Sustainability Operations Leader, GE Vernova
- Jari Kauppila, Head of Secretary General’s Office at ITF (International Transport Forum) and Associate Professor at Turku School of Economics
- Jean Oberlé, Head of Transportation Procurement – EU Transportation Decarbonization
- Jorge Tesler, President and Executive Director, TGI Argentina
- Kathrin Brost, Vice President, Global Head of GoGreen Program, DHL Global Forwarding
- Laetitia Dablanc, Professor at the University Gustave Eiffel in France
- Mads Stensen, Director, Sustainability, Air and Sea at DSV
- Margi Van Gogh, Head - Supply Chain, Logistics & Transport Industries, World Economic Forum
- Pawan Mulukutla, Executive Director - Integrated Transport, Clean Air & Hydrogen Sustainable Cities, WRI India
- Rasmus Valanko, Director, Advisory, KPMG Finland
- Rob De Jong, Head, Sustainable Mobility Unit, UNEP
- Ruth Banomyong, Chairman of the Advisory Board to the Thai Minister of Commerce
- Scott Childress, President, UPS Sustainability
Our Advisory Council consists of leading experts from academic institutions, international organizations and business to ensure that SFC’s activities are best positioned to accelerate and scale energy efficiency and emission reductions in the freight sector and strengthen other efforts to achieve this mission.
Assurance Stakeholder Committee
This committee provides an opportunity for effective involvement by parties interested in playing a role guiding our Conformity Assessment Scheme. Its role is to provide a wide range of views, and inputs from a variety of informed perspectives about our assurance activities. Carrying out this role requires representation of a balance of interests.
- Angie Farrag-Thibault, Associate Vice President Global Transportation, EDF-Environmental Defense Fund
- Elena Schmidt, Executive Director, RSB-Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials
- Kathrin Brost, Vice President, Global Head of GoGreen Program, DHL Global Forwarding
- McKenna Smith, Head of Validation, SBTi-Science Based Targets initiative
- Nicolette van der Jagt, Director General, CLECAT-European Association for Forwarding, Transport, Logistics and Customs Services
- Patric Pütz, Technical Director, Smart Freight Centre
- Pedro Alves, Managing Director, IQNET Association The International certification network
China Expert Council
The China Expert Council comprises leading experts on freight and logistics in China, covering business, policy and research perspectives. The council gives advice on our China strategy and take a lead role in our activities in China, especially the Smart Freight Forum.
- Charles Wang, Director of the Center for Logistics and SCM, China Development Institute
- Dalei Huang, Director of the Logistics Technology Center, COSCO Network e-Logistics
- Jian Wang, General Manager, Sunjex Logistics
- Jifu Guo, Director, Beijing Transport Research Institute
- Jonathan Xue, Head of Global Transportation Business, Shenzhen DJ Innovation
- Liu Liang, General Manager, China Merchant Logistics Holding Beijing Co. Ltd
- Mats Harborn, Executive Director of Scania China Strategic Center, Scania
- Yan Peng, Independent Consultant on Low Carbon and Sustainable Social Development
- Yang Dongbo, Director of Energy Saving and Carbon Emission Research Department, Research Institute of Highways (RIOH)
- Zhao Lei, Associate Professor, Tsinghua University
- Zhou Zhicheng, Director of the Research Department, China Federation of Logistics Purchasing (CFLP)