Position:
Director Transport Projects GIZ Thailand
Location:
Thailand, Bangkok
In November 2020, I joined the GIZ Thailand transport team in Bangkok leading GIZ sustainable transport and mobility development projects in Thailand and the ASEAN region. From 2016 to 2020, I was working for the GIZ project on Sino-German Cooperation on Low Carbon Transport, closely advising the German Environmental Ministry (BMU) on climate-oriented transport sector development. Prior to GIZ, I worked at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) Berlin and the German Energy Agency (dena), conducting research and providing consultancy in the fields of travel demand and behavior modelling, energy use and transformation, as well as emission reduction and efficiency improvement. With a doctorate degree from the Technical University (TU) Berlin on “Integration of passenger (road) travel into a computable general equilibrium model for Germany”, I am passionate about the macro and micro level interactions of economic and environmental systems, individual behavior and policy design.
According to Marchetti’s constant the travel time budget is one of the most stable mobility parameters globally and over time and is around one to one and a half hours / day. However, what has not stayed unchanged over the last centuries, but has deteriorated leading to alarming sustainability and climate concerns is the environmental and carbon footprint of individual mobility as well as goods transport, worldwide. The challenge is on!
