Jürgen 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 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 Director of the European Section of the Institute for Transport and Development Policy (ITDP Europe).

Rumbi did her studies in Environmental and Resources Management which included different aspects such as renewable energy, sustainable development and emissions reduction. Before moving to Hamburg for her Masters, Rumbi worked with Global2030 in Berlin, an organisation which provides information and suggests action on the most urgent global challenges of the 21st century. During her Masters, she worked on a bicycle project in her home country Zimbabwe on improving the access to education for school children through the use of bicycles. Her project focused on reviewing schools that received bicycles through donation programmes compared to schools that did not, to see if this improved access through bicycles had a significant impact on aspects such as school grades. Rumbi joined the EURIST Team at the beginning of 2017 as a bike project coordinator.

Matthias Nüßgen is a geographer and urban planner with degrees from the Humboldt University in Berlin and the University of Applied Sciences in Stuttgart. He has worked for various consulting firms and planning offices on different perspectives of sustainable transport, especially in the areas of public transport and non-motorised transport, and focuses on the functional integration of urban development and transport planning in order to achieve ecologically, socially and economically sustainable urban development by creating synergies between the two areas.

Matthias Nüßgen has been working with Eurist since 2011. Since 2016 he has led the organisation together with Managing Director Dr. Jürgen Perschon.

He held training courses and lectures on sustainable mobility at various national and international universities. In 2012 and 2013 he was a lecturer in urban planning at the TU Darmstadt.

At Eurist he tries to strengthen the perspective of urban development in implementation procedures of urban transport systems in order to adapt them to an economically, ecologically and socially resilient urban development paradigm based on proximity, accessibility and access to opportunities.

Since 2013 he has been working with EURIST on participation procedures, case studies and feasibility studies for the initiation and implementation of urban cableway projects in various African cities such as Dar es Salaam, Accra, Addis Ababa, Lusaka, Kigali, Gaborone and Harare, in addition to projects in Europe and especially in Germany.

Alexander gained his knowledge on sustainable mobility from his PhD program at the Institute of Sustainable Urbanism at TU Braunschweig, the MBA in Sustainable Mobility Management at TU Berlin, an M. Sc. in Transport Economics from the TU Dresden and through various consulting projects. In his consulting projects he focuses on active mobility, gender in transport, cargobike development, youth mobility, paratransit, traffic transformation and spatial justice analyses. Beside his focus on sustainable mobility he has conducted various projects in urban and traffic planning, logistics, institutional framework development and transport politics. Alexander has gained an in-depth knowledge of the conditions of transport markets in developing and emerging countries with focus on sustainable transport solutions and transport politics. He has worked in projects onsite in Georgia, Germany, Kazakhstan, Laos, Liberia, Ukraine, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania and Vietnam as a researcher, consultant, GIS analyst and traffic planner for universities, international cooperation institutions and the private sector. He has advised international cooperation institutions, ministries at state-level, given lectures at universities, led case studies and contributed to various specialist publications.