GFEI Partners
Rob de Jong
UNEP
Rob de Jong
Rob de Jong is Head of the Transport Unit in UNEP's Division of Technology, Industry and Economics (DTIE). He holds degrees in Environmental Engineering and Environmental Policy.
Prior to joining the United Nations he worked as a consultant for The Netherlands Government. In 1996 he joined UN-HABITAT to work for the joint UNEP/ UN-HABITAT Sustainable Cities Programme, supporting cities to develop their urban environmental planning and management capacities. In 1998 he joined UNEP to work on urban environment issues. In 2000 he became the Special Assistant for the Director of the Division of Policy Development and Law in UNEP. From 2002 he has been responsible for UNEP’s Urban Environment Unit, followed by the Transport Unit since 2008.
The Unit’s activities include developing UNEP’s strategic direction in the area urbanization and the environment, the cooperation between UNEP and UN-HABITAT and other Partners and integrating the urban dimension into key global environment issues such as climate change. He is also working on UNEP led partnerships, notably the Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles (PCFV), promoting improved urban air quality in developing countries.
Rob is married and has a daughter and a son.
Elisa Dumitrescu
UNEP
Elisa Dumitrescu
Elisa Dumitrescu is a Programme Officer within the Transport Unit of the Division of Technology, Industry and Economics. She is task manager for the unit’s work on the Global Fuel Economy Initiative (GFEI), black carbon emissions and the transport sector, cleaner fuels and vehicles in Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Share the Road non-motorized transport and road infrastructure initiative.
She works with regional ministerial forums, national and local governments, industry groups, NGO’s and technical experts to address local and global CO2 and non-CO2 emissions from road transport by initiating and improving standards for fuel quality and road vehicles and catalyzing the transfer of fuel production and vehicle emission technologies already used in other countries to lower vehicle emissions.
Elisa holds a master's degree in Environment and Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and has previously worked on renewable energy applications in urban settings, urban greening, and the remediation of toxic and radioactive pollution hot spots in developing and transitional countries.
Stephen Perkins
OECD/ITF
Stephen Perkins
Stephen Perkins is the Head of the Joint Transport Research Centre of the OECD and the International Transport Forum.
The Forum is an International Governmental Organisation for Transport Ministers with 52 Member countries. It is part of the OECD family of organisations and has a secretariat located in Paris. It holds an annual Ministerial Forum in Leipzig where strategic challenges for transport are examined with leaders of industry and civic society.
The Joint Research Centre undertakes economic research in support of transport policy development. Its work underpins the activities of the Forum and facilitates policy dialogue and exchange of experience for transport research institutes and transport ministries. The Centre works on all transport modes and most aspects of transport economics including regulation, competition, investment, pricing and taxation, safety, security, congestion and environmental protection.
Stephen’s previous experience includes energy industry restructuring and regulation at the International Energy Agency, work on economic regulation for a major gas utility and consultancy on energy policy and environmental issues for government and industry.
Lewis M. Fulton
IEA
Lewis Fulton
Lewis Fulton has worked internationally in the field of transport/energy/environment analysis and policy development for 20 years. He is a senior transport energy specialist with the International Energy Agency, Paris, where he recently returned after working there from 1999-2005. During 2006-2007 he worked in Kenya with the UN Environment Program, on developing and implementing sustainable transport projects around the world, leveraging funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF). His IEA reports include the forthcoming Transport, Energy and CO2: Moving Toward Sustainability (2009), Saving Oil in a Hurry (2005), Biofuels for Transport: An International Perspective (2004), and Bus Systems for the Future (2002). His previous positions have included the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Policy (1992-1996) and the Independent University, Bangladesh (1996-1997). He received his Ph.D. in Energy Management and Environmental Policy from the University of Pennsylvania in the United States in 1994.