Jürgen Heyen-Perschon has professional working experience in the transport sector of developed and developing countries since 1995, predominantly on transport planning, road safety, low-cost public and non-motorized transport as well as gender-related transport in rural and urban Africa and in the European context. The current work focuses on the relation between transport and CO2 emission reduction/climate change, transport and the Millennium Development Goals, Poverty alleviation, Environmental Protection and Road Safety.

In Africa he has carried out long and short-term field studies (household based socio-economic re-search, project impact monitoring studies) in Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Senegal and Ghana, Botswana and South Africa. Moreover he has given lectures and trainings to transport ministries, municipalities, transport NGOs but also at universities in Germany and China

Since 1995 Jürgen Heyen-Perschon has consulted for GTZ, the German Agency for Technical Co-operation.

Since 2003 he has been working with the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP USA), based in New York and was Executive Driector of the European Section of the Institute for Transport and Development Policy (ITDP Europe).

Dr. Dieter Schwela has a background as a physicist and air pollution manager. His current research interests include exposure and risk assessment of air pollutants, risk management procedures and strategies for air quality management in the developing countries of Asia and Africa. He is also engaged in numerous transport projects and founding member of EURIST.

Gabrielle Hermann, founding member of EURIST, has a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (M.A.L.D) from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a Master of Arts (M.A) from Tufts University in Urban Planning and Environmental Policy. Her research focused on the advance of bus rapid transit (BRT) technology in South America and the results of her research were published in several journals. From October 2005 to January 2011 she has been a Program Director at the European Section of the Institute for Transport and Development Policy (ITDP Europe). Her programmatic efforts have been focused on sustainable land-use in Eastern Europe and Bus Rapid Transit in East Africa. Gabrielle has cooperated on a road design and finance guidance document to support the global "10% Campaign" and has been working on a best practices parking study.

Gabrielle has served on the Executive Board of the Czech-based Institute for Sustainable Development of Settlements (IURS) and the Steering Committee of the World Carfree Network.

Barbara Gruehl Kipke completed her Masters of Business Administatrion M.B.A.

at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada in 1983.
She has been working on transport related issues for more than 20 years. Her fields of expertise are the

the integration of  sustainable transportation planning in the transportation equation.

Furthermore, she has specialized in the promotion of international marketing for the

zero-emission transport modes with an emphasis on developing countries. She ensures that the inclusion of gender and pedestrian issues are not overlooked.

She has been involved with the World Bank project on "NMT" in urban SSAfrica.
 In February 2012 she was voted as a Board Member of EURIST.

Christof Hertel is a geographer and is finishing a PhD on the eco-social governance of international transport chains at the Hamburg University of Technology. At the same time, he has been a Project Coordinator at the European Section of the Institute for Transport and Development Policy (ITDP Europe) since 2007. He is currently overseeing a research study that aims to identify and assess the CO2 reduction possibilities in freight transport in Europe.

Christof received his undergraduate degree and master's degree from the Free University of Berlin in Transport Science, Political Economy and Environmental Management. He wrote his master's thesis on the mobility problems resulting from the South African apartheid and how they could be overcome through bicycle use. Christof is founding member of EURIST.