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Mark Cuschieri

Global Head of Travel, UBS

Mark Cuschieri is Executive Director for Global Travel at UBS. He has been with the firm since 2007 and is responsible for setting the vision and overall strategic direction of the global travel program in over 50 countries.  View More>>

Walter Goetz

Head of Cabinet for Transport Commissioner Adina Vᾰlean

Walter Goetz is the Head of Cabinet of Transport Commissioner Adina Vălean since December 2019. View More>>

Caroline Strachan

Managing Partner, Festive Road

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Paul Abbott

Chief Executive Officer, American Express Global Business Travel

Paul Abbott is Chief Executive Officer of American Express Global Business Travel (GBT). Prior to joining GBT, Paul was Chief Commercial Officer, Global Commercial Payments at American Express. View More>>

MEP Ismail Ertug

Committee on Transport and Tourism, European Parliament

Ismail Ertug is a German Member of the European Parliament for the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands in the S&D group View More>>

Brune Poirson

Chief Sustainability Officer, Accor

Brune Poirson has experience in the field of sustainability in the public, non-profit and private sectors. View More>>

Michael Schneider

Assistant Director Aviation Environment, IATA

Michael Schneider is an aviation professional with 20+ years of experience in finance, environment, and sustainability. View More>>

Dan Rutherford

Program Director, International Council on Clean Transportation

Dan Rutherford directs ICCT’s aviation and marine programs. In that capacity, he helps national and international regulators develop policies View More>>

Thomas Neumann

Policy Manager, AVERE

As Policy Manager at AVERE – the European association for electromobility, Thomas Neumann leads the association’s work on all relevant EU policy developments. View More>>

Kim Carnahan

Head of Secretariat, Sustainable Aviation Buyers Alliance (SABA)

Kim Carnahan is the Head of Secretariat for the Sustainable Aviation Buyers Alliance and the Senior Director of Net Zero Fuels, Americas at ENGIE Impact. View More>>

Amon Cohen

Conference Producer for Business Travel Show Europe

Amon Cohen is Conference Producer for Business Travel Show Europe and Contributing Editor to BTN Group publications BTN Europe, BTN North America and The Beat. View More>>

Bev Fearis

Editor, The Business Travel Magazine

Bev Fearis is Editor of The Business Travel Magazine, a multi-award-winning bi-monthly magazine View More>>

Zlatko Kregar

Policy Officer, DG Mobility & Transport, Sustainable & Intelligent Transport Unit, European Commission

Zlatko Kregar was born in 1981, in Zagreb, Croatia. After graduating experimental physics on the University of Zagre. View More>>

Dr. Gabrielle Walker

Founder & Director, Valence Solutions

Gabrielle Walker, Founder and Director of Valence Solutions, is an expert strategist, speaker and moderator focused on unleashing capitalism on climate change. View More>>

Maarten Dansen

Senior Manager Corporate Responsibility, PwC NL

Maarten is Senior Manager in Corporate Sustainability at PwC Netherlands. He graduated from Delft University of Technology in 2009 as MSc Real Estate. View More>>

Suzanne Neufang

CEO, Global Business Travel Association

Suzanne Neufang was named to lead the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) as Chief Executive Officer in February 2021. View More>>

Denise Auclair

 Travel Smart Campaign Manager, Transport & Environment

Denise Auclair leads the Travel Smart Campaign, a global effort to help businesses move towards purposeful travel and reduced corporate emissions, while accelerating innovation and scale-up of advances in sustainable travel. View More>>

Patrick O’Meara

Head of Business Development, Sustainable Hospitality Alliance

Patrick O'Meara serves as the Head of Partnerships & Business Development at the Sustainable Hospitality Alliance, a global collaboration of hospitality businesses working to achieve a truly regenerative hospitality industry for people, planet and place. View More>>

Randy Durband

 Chief Executive Officer, Global Sustainable Tourism Council

CEO of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC), a UN-created NGO managing the global sustainable tourism standards, the GSTC Criteria. View More>>

Sally Davey

Chief Executive, Travalyst

Sally Davey is the Chief Executive at Travalyst , a pre-competitive alliance founded by The Duke of Sussex in partnership with industry leaders Booking.com, Trip.com Group, Tripadvisor, Skyscanner and Visa, and joined recently by Google. View More>>

Matthew Parsons

Corporate Travel Editor, Skift

Matthew covers the corporate travel sector, with his eye on the intersections of procurement, technology and culture. View More>>

Chris Pouney

Independent Consultant

Chris has more than 25 years’ experience in corporate travel as a supplier, buyer and consultant. This includes seven years at financial services giant Citigroup as the global lead for travel. View More>>

Jacqueline Starr

Chief Executive, Rail Delivery Group

Jacqueline Starr became the CEO of the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) in December 2020, an organisation that brings together Network Rail, View More>>

Raul Cazan

President, 2CELSIUS

For more than a decade, Raul is researching EU’s policies in energy and climate. View More>>

Dr. Andrea Giurcin

CEO, TRA Consulting

Dr. Andrea Giuricin is CEO of TRA consulting, a strategic consultancy company based in Barcelona and Milan with international customers. View More>>

Robin Loos

Sustainable Transport Officer, BEUC, the European Consumer Organisation

Robin Loos is Sustainable Transport Officer at BEUC, the European Consumer Organisation. He works on topics related to cars (CO2 standards, development of the charging infrastructure for electric vehicles View More>>

Jason Long

Senior Vice President, Global Strategic Accounts, HRS

Jason Long oversees a global team of sales and business travel experts, targeting multi-national corporations with significant lodging expenditures to expand HRS sales worldwide. View More>>

Markus Trapp

Director & Head of Sales DACH, CWT

Markus Trapp is Director & Head of Sales DACH at Travel Management Platform company CWT. In his 26 years at CWT, Markus has touched every part of the travel business View More>>

Joel Fisher

VP of Product, Travelport

Joel is Vice President of Product at Travelport, responsible for the development of data solutions as well as sustainability offerings. View More>>

Sara Digiesi

Chief Executive Officer, BWH Hotel Group Italia

Sara Digiesi is Chief Executive Officer at BWH Hotel Group Italia. View More>>

Catherine Dolton

Chief Sustainability Officer, IHG Hotels & Resorts

Catherine Dolton has been Chief Sustainability Officer at IHG Hotels & Resorts since 2018, where she leads the company’s Journey to Tomorrow 2030 responsible business strategy and all ESG reporting. View More>>

Hendrik Vordenbaeumen

 Global VP Product Strategy & Head of Sustainability, SAP Concur

Hendrik Vordenbaeumen is Global Vice President of Product Strategy and the SAP T&E legacy products as CPO. View More>>

Chris Elmitt

CEO, Livve

Chris Elmitt is CEO of virtual event platform, Livve and a professional facilitator, specialising in enabling large groups to collaborate in person and online. View More>>

Chris Truss

International Development & Sustainability Director, Reed & Mackay

Chris has worked in the travel industry for over 20 years with experience across the travel management spectrum including travel management, consulting, global account management and environmental and sustainability. View More>>

Maarten Dansen

Senior Manager Corporate Responsibility, PwC NL

Maarten is Senior Manager in Corporate Sustainability at PwC Netherlands. He graduated from Delft University of Technology in 2009 as MSc Real Estate. View More>>

Kim Carnahan

Head of Secretariat, Sustainable Aviation Buyers Alliance (SABA)

Kim Carnahan is the Head of Secretariat for the Sustainable Aviation Buyers Alliance and the Senior Director of Net Zero Fuels, Americas at ENGIE Impact – the advisory arm of global energy company ENGIE Group. View More>>

John Harvey

Managing Partner, Globalyse

John is managing partner of travel management consultancy Globalyse. He is the former CMO of Hogg Robinson plc (HRG) where he held executive board responsibility for marketing and communications across the group. View More>>

Marieke Verhoeven

Carbon Solution Program Manager, Shell Aviation

As Carbon Solution Program Manager, I am responsible for Avelia, a blockchain powered book-and-claim solution that provides customers with fully traceable environmental attributes of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) to help decarbonize air travel. View More>>

Albena Taseva

Strategic Sourcing Manager – Business Travel, MICE & HR, Codan Forsikring A/S

Albena is a procurement specialist, business travel expert and a strong advocate for designing and implementing sustainable travel programs for the modern business traveller. View More>>

Barbora Vosahlova

EMEIA Emerging Markets Travel, Meetings, & Events Operations Manager, Ernst & Young

Barboara Vosahlova is a travel, meetings & events professional with over 20 years experience. Based in Prague, Barbora is responsible for the operations in Travel, Meetings & Events Services across the EMEIA Emerging Markets which includes 50 countries. View More>>

René Rühl

Senior Manager – Mobility, Accenture

Based in Kronberg/Frankfurt Germany, René is responsible for Accenture’s travel, events and assignments organization within Austria, Germany and Switzerland and additionally has the role as the Sustainability Market Business Partner within Accenture Mobility globally. View More>>

Szymon Oscislowski

Deputy Head of Unit, Directorate General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE), European Commission

Szymon Oscislowski is a Deputy Head of Unit in the Directorate General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE) of the European Commission. View More>>

Shelley Fletcher-Bryant

Senior Director, Sales & Client Relationship Management, Advito

As the Senior Director of Client Management for Advito, Shelley oversees engagements with clients and prospects that help deliver ROI and optimize travel programs. As well as fostering long term relationships, Shelley develops new business opportunities across EMEA, APAC and North America. View More>>

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