Holger Dalkmann

Holger Dalkmann has over twenty years of experience working in the field of mobility, cities, sustainability and climate change. In summer 2017 he moved to Berlin where he operates his own business working on those issues with a variety of organizations like GIZ, DFID, UNCRD, and World Bank. Last year he took over the role as Interim Secretary-General of the Sustainable Low Carbon Transport Partnership from May 2018 until October 2018. He is one of the Co-founders of the Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon Transport (SLoCat) and has been on the SLOCAT board since 2013. In June 2016 he became elected Co-Chair of the board and was just re-elected in October 2017. He is a founding member of the global initiative Sustainable Mobility for All and served until October as its Steering group member. He is also a current member of the Steering Committee for the World Conference on Transport Research Society.

From 2011 until 2017 he worked for the World Resources Institute in Washington DC. He was Director for its EMBARQ program, which catalyzes environmentally and financially sustainable urban transport solutions to improve quality of life in cities. As EMBARQ transitioned into the newly established WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities he was additionally responsible for strategy and global policy. In this capacity, Holger led efforts on how to enable cities to benefit from global processes such as COP, SDG and Habitat 3. During his former work at the UK-based consultancy, TRL, and for ten years at the Wuppertal Institute for Energy, Climate and Environment (Germany), a world-respected think tank, Holger worked in more than thirty countries on mobility, environment and climate change. Holger holds a Masters degree in Geography and taught at the University of Duisburg and University of Trier. He has published over 100 articles including the influential Avoid-Shift-Improve concept.