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Ben van Beurden
Chief Executive Officer
Shell plc
Ben van Beurden became Chief Executive Officer of Shell plc in January 2014.
He joined Shell plc in 1983, after graduating with a master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Delft University of Technology.
Ben’s career in Shell plc spans both Upstream and Downstream activities. He has held a number of operational and commercial roles, including some 10 years in the LNG business, as well as a variety of positions in Downstream, and has been based in The Hague, Sudan, Malaysia, London and Houston.
In 2015, he became a member of the Advisory Board of the School of Economics and Management Tsinghua University in Beijing. In 2017, Ben became a member of the International Advisory Council of the Singapore Economic Development Board. Ben joined the Supervisory Board of Daimler AG in April 2021.
Sonja van Renssen
Editor-in-Chief
Energy Monitor
Sonja van Renssen is editor-in-chief of Energy Monitor, a new site dedicated to data-driven stories about the global energy transition.
It was launched by the New Statesman Media Group in June 2020 and is today part of GlobalData.
Based in Brussels, Sonja previously wrote for leading energy and climate titles including S&P Global Platts, Nature Climate Change and Foresight Climate & Energy.
Sonja has an MSc in Science Communication from Imperial College London and a BA in Biological Sciences from the University of Oxford. She speaks fluent English and Dutch, with a good command of German and French.
Herald Ruijters
Director for Investment, Innovative & Sustainable Transport
DG MOVE, European Commission
Herald Ruijters was appointed director of directorate B – investment, innovate & sustainable transport at the European Commission’s Directorate General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE) in February 2017.
Before that, he held several positions at DG Move including head of unit, where he was responsible for the Trans European Network (TEN-T) and its guidelines; he also worked to promote the implementation of TEN-T projects in cooperation with the European Coordinators from 2005 to2009 and for the development of road safety policy from 1997 to 2005.
He holds degrees in French literature and European studies from both Nijmegen and Amsterdam Universities, as well as a post-graduate diploma in European law from the Centre Européen Universitaire in Nancy and a master’s degree in business studies from KU Leuven.
Caroline Nagtegaal
MEP
Renew Europe
Shadow rapporteur
Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation
Caroline Nagtegaal-van Doorn is a Dutch member of the European Parliament for the Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie (VVD), part of the Renew Europe group. She was elected in 2017 and is shadow rapporteur on the Commission’s proposal for Alternative Fuel Infrastructure Regulation (AFIR).
Nagtegaal is a member of the Committee for Transport and Tourism (TRAN) and has been vice-coordinator of the Renew group in this committee since 2019.
Before joining the European Parliament, she served as president of the local VVD section in Rotterdam from 2015 to 2017.
Before that, she held a variety of positions in the private sector including manager public and external affairs at Royal Schiphol Group, public and European affairs in the Port of Rotterdam Authority from 2010 to 2015 and advisor at KPGM Business Performance Services from 2004 to 2010.
Nagtegaal holds a master’s degree in new public management from the University of Bocconi and a master’s in governance of complex spatial development from the Erasmus University of Rotterdam.
Hanne Cokeleare
Reporter
POLITICO
Hanne is a Reporter for POLITICO.
Before joining POLITICO, Hanne was a freelance reporter in Brussels, covering debates in the European Parliament. She also wrote for the European Policy Network, focusing on EU social policy. She studied philosophy at the University of Leuven and holds Master’s degrees in European studies and international and European law. During her studies, she spent an Erasmus semester in France and interned at Deutsche Welle and POLITICO.
In her free time, Hanne likes to study languages, trying her hand at French, German, Italian and Russian with varying degrees of success. She was born and raised in Leuven, Belgium.
Ola Källenius
CEO
Mercedes-Benz
Ola Källenius has been a member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG since January 1, 2015, and Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG since end of Annual Meeting of Daimler AG on May 22, 2019. He is also Chairman of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz AG.
Ola Källenius was born on June 11, 1969, in Västervik/Sweden. After obtaining Abitur (university entrance examination) at Grammar School of Danderyd (Sweden), he did his military service in the Swedish army in 1988/89. From 1989 until 1993 he studied at the Stockholm School of Economics (Master in Finance and Accounting) and the CEMS Programm (Master of International Management) at the University of St. Gallen. He joined the then Daimler-Benz AG as Trainee within the International Management Associate Program in 1993.
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Ismail Ertug
Member of S&D
European Parliament
Ismail Ertug is a German Member of the European Parliament for the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands in the S&D group.
Ertug is currently serving his third term as an MEP, having been elected in 2009. He has served as vice president of the S&D group and is a full member of the Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN) since 2019.
Ertug is involved in questions spanning from CO2 emissions reduction, alternative and cleaner transport, the future of mobility to rail passengers’ rights, cross-border travel simplification as well as trans-European transport network development.
Before joining the European Parliament, he held a variety of positions at the German general health insurance (Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse – AOK) including coordinator and social insurance expert.
Adina Vălean
Commissioner for Transport
European Commission
Adina Valean is the European Commissioner for Transport. Before taking office on December 1st 2019, she was a Member of the European Parliament for 12 years. As an MEP she served as the Chairwoman of ITRE Committee (July-December 2019), Chairwoman of ENVI Committee (2017-2019) and as Vice-President of the European Parliament (2014-2017). She was also a Member of the Romanian Parliament between 2004-2007. Adina Valean holds a master’s degree in European Integration Studies and Security and a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics.