The speakers page will be consistently refreshed with announcements as we unveil our lineup for the upcoming event, featuring intriguing and high-level presenters
Namrita Chow, ECG Business Intelligence
Namrita Chow has over 20 years’ experience analysing markets with a specific focus on the transportation industry. From 2003 to 2014 she was based in Shanghai, China where she followed the light vehicle market writing for leading publications such as Automotive News, Tire Business, Rubber & Plastics News, Automotive Logistics, MG Enthusiast and others before being recruited by IHS Markit to manage their market intelligence reports on China. With a career spanning almost a decade at IHS Markit (now S&P Global), Namrita’s most recent role at IHS was as the principal light vehicle sales forecast analyst for complex markets in the Middle East such as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Sub-Sahara Africa. Most recently Namrita has been responsible for business intelligence reports for ECG members, focusing on a range of topics which are highly relevant to the European vehicle logistics industry including the development of the Finished Vehicle Logistics (FVL) Cost Index in partnership with PwC Austria, reports on EU Funding opportunities for FVL players and regular updates on the vehicle export and import dynamics in Europe, with a specific focus on Chinese vehicle exports into Europe. Namrita has an MSc in Economics and Mathematics from the University of London and speaks Mandarin and Hindi in addition to her native English.
Justin Cox, Director, Global Production, LMC Automotive
Justin is Director, Global Production, at GlobalData Plc. In this role he provides the functional lead and global oversight of the company’s automotive production forecast activity. Prior to joining LMC Automotive (acquired by GlobalData in 2022), Justin held key sales and commercial management positions internationally for both Johnson Controls (Adient) and GKN Driveline. In addition, he has held traditional product marketing roles with Mazda (UK) as well as senior analyst roles at RL Polk (Marketing Systems) where he started his career.
With more than 30 years of extensive automotive business experience, Justin has gained a ‘real world’ insight into the commercial pressures and planning challenges facing the industry throughout the Value-Chain. Justin holds a BSc degree in Economics and Human Geography from the University of Reading.
“With supply-side disruption increasingly behind us, I’ll be examining some of the forthcoming challenges shaping the automotive production outlook.”
Justin Cox, Director, Global Production, LMC Automotive
Antonio Errigo, Director, Deputy General Director, ALIS – Logistics Association of sustainable Intermodality
Antonio Errigo currently holds the position of Deputy General Director at ALIS – Logistics Association of sustainable Intermodality – primary Italian association in charge on sustainable development of passenger and cargo transport and all services connected to strategic industrial supply chains.
Within this organization, he also serves as the coordinator of the ALIS Europe department and is responsible for international relations. He is a journalist and since July 2020 he has been actively involved in the coordination of ALIS Channel. Since November 2021, he has overseen the editorial coordination of ALIS Magazine. Representing ALIS he is a member of the Executive Board Committee of SeaFocus International (Finland), the Regional Commitee for Road Transport and Logistics in the Sicily Region (Italy) and the Board of Directors of the ITS Mobility Foundation for Sustainable Transport in Catania (Italy). He is also a full member of the Executive Committee of ONTM – National Observatory for the Protection of the Sea. He has served as a lecturer at Italian training institutes, Italian business schools, and the European School for Intermodal Transport in Barcelona (Spain). From 2013 to 2015, he collaborated with the European programming office of the Port System Authority of the Central Northern Tyrrhenian Sea (Italian ports of Civitavecchia, Fiumicino, and Gaeta) on secondment on behalf of the Port System Authority and the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport at the Permanent Representation of Italy to the European Union in Brussels (Belgium). There, he supported national experts in the transport sector on all aspects of European legislative policy during the Greek Presidency and the Italian Presidency of the EU Council. He played a role in preparing and managing meetings of European Transport and Infrastructure Ministers in collaboration with the Mertens coordination and under the directives of the Ambassador, Deputy Permanent Representative.
Ben Waller, Associate Director, ICDP
Ben plays a leading role in managing and delivering ICDP research and consultancy activities. His specialist area is new vehicle supply and has worked with OEMs in a variety of benchmarking and advisory roles, and he has also increasingly worked on new mobility services. Ben’s association with ICDP started in 1999 when he joined the 3DayCar programme.
He also undertakes independent consultancy and research, including outside automotive, occasionally writes for business press, and is a visiting lecturer at Kempten Business School, Germany.
“A number of carmakers have announced or implemented agency models for their dealer networks, a change in strategy that necessitates that OEMs retain ownership of unsold new cars, whilst others have decided against such a shift but are still pursuing omni-channel approaches that benefit from shared central stock. What can we learn from recent experiences, and what are the implications for finished vehicle logistics? “
Ben Waller, Associate Director, ICDP
Thomas Windhager, Partner, PwC Austria
Thomas Windhager is Partner and Head of transformation consulting in Vienna as well as Insurance Leader for PwC Austria. He has been working as a Management Consultant for more than 24 years, working for various management consulting firms in Austria. Thomas is an expert in managing finance transformation projects, having displayed his qualities and capacities on many different occasions in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and CEE.
Christoph Wolff, Chief Executive Officer, Smart Freight Centre
Christoph Wolff is Chief Executive Officer of Smart Freight Centre, an international non-profit organization focused on reducing greenhouse gas emission from freight transportation.
Until the end of 2021, Christoph was a Member of the Executive Committee for the World Economic Forum, heading the Global Mobility platform that includes the Forum´s initiatives around sustainability and digitization in the supply chain, automotive, aviation and aerospace industry. Before, he was Managing Director of the European Climate Foundation 2014-18, following 16 years at McKinsey as a Senior Partner heading the global travel, logistics and infrastructure practice.
As Board member of DB Schenker, Christoph was responsible for the international growth and operations of the company’s rail division. He has been the CEO of companies in the renewable energy sector. A chemical engineer by training from Universities of Aachen and Zurich, Christoph is on the Board of several energy start-ups and Honorary Professor in Energy and Resource Economics at the University of Cologne and Visiting Professor at the HSG St. Gallen, teaching in Mobility and Sustainability.