Transforming Transportation 2021: Mobility For Recovery
Transforming Transportation 2021: Reimagining Safe and Resilient Mobility For Recovery
**The above playlist contains all the video replays from the conference that took place on February 3-5, 2021.**
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the global transport sector and the people and businesses that rely on it in unprecedented ways. Across the globe, rethinking mobility is now a priority to build back better, with safer, more resilient and efficient transport systems for all.
Transforming Transportation 2021 brought together sustainable mobility world leaders from the public, private, academic and civil society spheres in a global virtual event to discuss the path forward.
Watch the replay of our 3-day virtual event featuring high-level policymakers and cutting-edge thinkers to explore solutions for countries and cities around the world – from reimagining public transport to reducing emissions, safer micromobility, the new reality of freight, electric vehicles, and more.
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Check out the Transforming Transportation 2021 official website.
Watch a replay of Transforming Transportation 2021 by Day 1, Day 2, Day 3.
Keynote: Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute
Panel Discussion
- Makhtar Diop, Vice President for Infrastructure, World Bank
- Stientje Van Veldhoven, Minister for the Environment/Chair of the Transport Decarbonization Alliance, the Netherlands
- Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, Mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone
- Kailash Gahlot, Transport Minister, Delhi, India
Keynote: Mamta Murthi, Vice President for Human Development, World Bank
Panel Discussion
- George Njao, Director General, National Transport and Safety Authority, Kenya
- G. Prakash, Commissioner, Greater Chennai Corporation, India
- James Woodcock, Principal Research Associate, University of Cambridge
- Etienne Krug, Director, Department for Management of Noncommunicable Diseases, Disability, Violence and Injury Prevention, World Health Organization
- Tasha Keeney, Analyst, ARK Invest
- David Sarley, Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Tom Plümmer, Chief Executive Officer, Wingcopter
- Temie Giwa-Tubosun, Chief Executive Officer, LifeBank
- Esther Kunda, Director General for Innovation and Emerging Technologies, Ministry of Information Communication Technology and Innovation, Rwanda
Moderator: Catalina Ochoa, Senior Urban Transport Specialist, World Bank
Panel Discussion
- Ekrem İmamoğlu, Mayor of Istanbul, Turkey
- Eneas Comiche, Mayor of Maputo, Mozambique
- Bruno Covas, Mayor of São Paulo, Brazil
- Claudia López, Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia
- Erion Veliaj, Mayor of Tirana, Albania
- Qingsheng Liu, Executive Vice Mayor of Shenzhen, China
Keynote: Stephanie von Friedeburg, Chief Operating Officer/Interim Managing Director, International Finance Corporation
Panel Discussion
- Fang Liu, Secretary General, International Civil Aviation Organization
- Carlos Mier y Terán, Director of Transport and Acting Chief Executive Officer, National Infrastructure Fund, Mexico Florent Menegaux, Chief Executive Officer, Michelin
- Julian Ware, Head of Major Projects Funding, Transport for London/Chair of Transport Economics Committee, International Association of Public Transport
- Francisco Iglesias, Chief Executive Officer, ALSA Group
- Anitha Bhatia, Assistant Secretary-General for Resource Management, Sustainability and Partnerships, and Deputy Executive Director, UN Women
- Sinem Dedetaş, General Manager, City Lines Istanbul, Turkey
- Sonal Shah, Founder, The Urban Catalysts, India
- Heather Allen, Independent Gender and Transport Consultant
- Nato Kurshitashvili, Gender Specialist, Transport Global Practice, World Bank
Moderator: Franz Drees-Gross, Regional Infrastructure Director, World Bank
- Ramon Munoz-Raskin, Senior Transport Specialist, World Bank
- Awardee - Abisai Konstantinus, Chief Executive Officer, Ndatara
- Awardee - Fariba Siddiq, Doctoral Student, Department of Urban Planning, UCLA
- Awardee - Jungwoo Chun, Doctoral Student, Department of Urban Studies & Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Holger Dalkmann, Chief Executive Officer/Founder of Sustain 2030, Co-Founder of Lee Schipper Scholarship
- Ralph Buehler, Professor, Virginia Tech’s Research Center
- Amanda Ngabirano, Acting Chairperson, National Physical Planning Board, Uganda
- Mai Thị Liên Hương, Director General, Technical Infrastructure Department, Ministry of Construction, Vietnam
- Lilian Tilburgs, Economic Consultant, Decisio
- Jill Warren, Chief Executive Officer, European Cyclists' Federation
Moderator: Claudia Adriazola-Steil, Deputy Director, Urban Mobility/Director, Health & Road Safety, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
Panel Discussion
- Alan McKinnon, Professor of Logistics, KuehneLogistics University
- Luc Arnouts, Vice President, International Relations and Networks, Port of Antwerp
- Margi Van Gogh, Head of Supply Chain & Transport, World Economic Forum
- Lance Kaneshiro, Chief Information Officer, Port of Los Angeles
- FedEx Representative (TBC)
Panel Discussion
- Carlton Reid, Journalist
- François Bausch, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Mobility and Public Works, Luxembourg
- Claudia Dobles Camargo, First Lady, Costa Rica
- Dagmawit Moges, Minister of Transport, Ethiopia
- Jürgen Zattler, Deputy Director General for Multilateral and European Policy, Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany
Fireside Chat
- Pablo Fajnzylber, Acting Global Director, Transport Global Practice, World Bank
- Ani Dasgupta, Global Director, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
Learn More
Websites
Transforming Transportation 2021
Transport Initiatives
Sustainable Mobility for All (Sum4All)
Global Road Safety Facility (GRSF)
Africa Transport Policy Program (SSATP)
Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF)
