Day 1: Session 2: Serving the Customers
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Michael Cramer is a Member of the European Parliament for the Greens and the chairman of the Committee for Transport and Tourism. Between 1989 -2004 he was a member of the Berlin regional parliament, where he was responsible for transport policy. He was first elected into the European Parliament in 2004 and was re-elected in 2009 and 2014."
2013-present:
Executive Director Bayerische Eisenbahngesellschaft (BEG), Munich. The BEG plans the entire regional rail passenger transportation on behalf of the Bavarian Ministry of Transport.
2008-2013:
Executive Director Foreign investments of Invest in Bavaria, a joint venture between the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology and Bayern International GmbH, Munich
2006-2008
Head of the Media Industry and Telecommunications department at the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology, Munich
2001-2006
Chief Executive Officer of Regentalbahn AG, Viechtach, one of the leading private railway companies in Germany
2000-2001
Head of Public Transportation Competence Center at Rödl & Partner, management consultants and auditing firm, Nuremberg
1995-2000
Deputy Director of the Public Transportation System Department.
at Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology, Munich
1989-1995
Scientific Research Assistant at the Institute of Organization, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich
1994
Doctoral dissertation on The Emergence of Standards in the IT Sector
1984-1989
Studies of Economics at Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.
1962
Born December 20, 1962 in Steingaden, Germany
David Kramer is chairman of Train2EU since the start of the foundation in 2014. As chairman of the national organisation of young public transport professionals in the Netherlands, Jonge Veranderaars, he was actively involved in the forming of the foundation. Currently as manager of international logistics at NS International he is responsible, along with his colleagues, for the yearly timetabling of all international services from the Netherlands. Previously, he has held various positions at public transport operators and consultancies in several European countries. Hailing from the United States, he has made the Netherlands his home for over 8 years after spending several years working and studying in Germany.
Mr Onidi oversees the Directorate with responsibility for the promotion of the Trans-European Transport Network policy, the implementation of the single European rail area, inland navigation and port policy and the development of infrastructure innovation and investment strategies.
His last assignment was as Director for Innovative and Sustainable Mobility within the Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport. Before, he was Deputy Head of Cabinet of the Energy Commissioner, Mr Günther H. Oettinger. He also worked as Head of Unit for air transport and Head of the satellite navigation system programme – GALILEO, as assistant to Directors-General in the areas of Energy & Transport, External Relations, the Secretariat General and in the cabinet of the Commissioner for Research and Development, innovation, education and training.
Before joining the Commission, he worked as adviser to the Executive Committee of Belgacom and as public policy Manager at American Express International.
Mr Onidi holds a Master of Science in Economics, a Master in European Studies and in Business Administration.
Christopher Irwin is the Vice-Chairman of the European Passengers' Federation, which brings together passengers' organisations in eighteen European countries. He is European Policy Adviser to Transport Focus, Britain's statutory watchdog for rail and bus passengers.
Having served as passenger representative on the board of the European Railway Agency from 2004 to 2014, he continues to serve on the ERRAC advisory council. He is currently head of the UK delegation to the Intergovernmental Commission for the Channel Tunnel.
Christopher Irwin worked for many years in the radio and television industry, and was closely involved in the development of satellite broadcasting for Pearson and the launch of Star TV in Asia. He served as Controller of Resources & Administration for BBC World Service in 1989-90 and as Chief Executive of BBC World Service Television in 1990-94.
Mr Ralf-Charley Schultze is 50 years old and lives in Vienna with his family.
Before going to Austria he was responsible during five years within the freight department of the swiss railways (SBB Cargo) for the combined traffic, the automotive business and the partner management. In this time he had the opportunity to practice liberalization and to experience so called coopetition. He has an international background, speaks fluently five languages and studied law in Germany, France and England. 10 years in different logistics and forwarding companies in Europe gave him a solid logistics background and enabled him understanding, organizing and implementing logistic processes, meeting the real needs of the market.
The last five years he was director for multimodal logistics within the GEFCO group, responsible for the development of multimodal business all over Europe, with a strong focus on Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia. Since the 1st of January 2014 Mr. Ralf-Charley Schultze is director general of the UIRR, the international union for road-rail combined transport in Brussels.