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Werner Rothengatter Professor Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Werner Rothengatter graduated from Business Engineering at Universität Karlsruhe in 1969. While as a Researcher and Research Assistant at the Institute for Economic Policy Research 1970-1978, he earned the PhD in 1972 and the Habilitation in 1978, both in Economics. He worked as a Professor for Economic Theory at Universität Kiel (1979), Professor for Economic Theory and Policy at Universität Ulm (1979-1986), as a Visiting Professor at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee (1982), as Head of the Transport Division at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin (1986-1989), and received a call to the Universität Münster, Institute for Transportation Science (1989).  Since 1990, he worked as Professor at Universität Karlsruhe (now the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)), Dean of the Faculty of Economics (2003-2004) and Head of the Institute of Economic Policy Research and its Unit of Transport and Communication. Since April 2009 he has retired from University obligations. He retired as well from the Scientific Advisory Committee of the German Ministry of Transport, Construction and Urban Development, which he had chaired from 2001 to 2002. In 2010 he was honored with the Francqui-Chair for Logistics at the University of Antwerp and in 2013 with the Jules Dupuit Prize of the WCTRS. He was member of the Advisory Committee of Deutsche Bahn AG and a member of the Reform Commission for Large Projects of the German Ministry of Transport, Construction and Urban Development. He is involved in a number of projects of the European Commission and the European Parliament and works as an author, advisor, rapporteur and reviewer. He was President of the World Conference on Transport Research Society (2001-2007) and is still a member of its Steering Committee. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of the Transport Policy and Case Studies on Transport Policy Journals (published by Elsevier) and Editor of the Springer Series on Transport Economics and Policy (together with David Gillen).

Monica Heiming Executive Director EIM

Since 1993 Monika Heiming has been active in Brussels as a lobbyist and manager of international associations and groupings.

In November 2004 she joined the European Rail Freight Association (ERFA) and in January 2005 was made its Secretary General, serving the organisation's company and association members across Europe. Her tasks include dealing with the association’s legal, technical, political, financial and administrative matters and external issues.

From 1999 to 2004 she managed and marketed the engineering activities of a European engineering group, Europengineers eeig, which had 5,000 staff working in 10 design offices that were active in 45 countries.

From 1993 to 1997 she helped to develop the railway industry association UNIFE, lobbying for multimodal, combined transport, the environment, EU Framework Programmes for R&D and CEECs.

Monika Heiming studied languages at the University of Cologne, she holds a Master’s degree in European Management from the University Faculties in Brussels and an Executive MBA from the Belgian Solvay Business School. She is member of the Solvay Alumni and of the Belgian League of Optimists.

Monika Heiming was born on 18 November 1965 in Cologne (Germany).

Rainer Wenty Technical Sales Director Plasser & Theurer

Rainer Wenty, a mechanical engineer, is Manager of Technical Sales and Marketing for Plasser & Theurer in the company’s main office in Vienna, Austria. He has been with the company since 1967 and has widespread international experience in the application of track maintenance and construction machines – both in technical and economic terms. Mr. Wenty has also authored numerous technical papers for trade publications and conferences.

Memberships: VDEI (Association of German Railway Engineers), ÖVG (Austrian Society of Traffic Science), and currently Chairman of Vienna Branch of ÖVG

Joined Plasser & Theurer to build up the Technical Department in the central export office, subsequently taking over the worldwide marketing as an executive of the management.
Export manager since 1996.

Assignments all over the world for consulting and solutions concerning problems of maintenance and repair of railway track, numerous publications in trade journals and presentations at international conferences and seminars.