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The Steering Committee of the international network provides vision in international strategic planning in cooperation with Member Organisations and Active Individuals. The Steering Committee is composed of the members of the steering committee of World Carfree Network Europe, plus representatives from international member organisations, to form a total of 7-13 members. For inquiries or comments related to the overall work of the Steering Committee, please contact the current International Coordination Centre liaison to the Steering Committee, Alexander Berthelsen.

Are you interested in joining the SC? For further information on the work involved and how to apply for the position please see the SC description.

Alexander Berthelsen is at heart a free public transport activist. Born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden he started to work with the free public transport advocates in Planka.nu about five years ago. During that time Planka.nu has broaden their activities and now work with all kinds of questions related to making the transport sector in Stockholm climate smart and fair. Alexander has also been very active in the anti highway movement in Stockholm and has a passion for pop music, lobbying, Internets, urban planning, Marxist and feminist literature and dancing.

Back in Stockholm he worked as a web editor for the Stockholm County Council and has studied Economic History and Gender Studies. He started his EVS (a one-year internship financed by the European Commission) career in September 2009 and will be working with Carbusters online and the new toolkit project as well as helping out a bit with the Carbusters magazine.

Languages: English, Swedish and hopefully some Czech in a few months...

Simon Field recently completed a Masters in Transport Planning and Policy at Newcastle University, England. His research project examined the use of economic instruments and personal carbon allowances to reduce carbon emissions from transport. He is actively involved in the development of a Carfree Area Pilot Project, and is a founding member and treasurer of the British research and lobbying group Carfree UK. Simon was one of the organisers of the ninth Towards Carfree Cities conference, which came to York, England in 2010.

Languages: English, German
Term: until 2011 AGM

Sam Fleet works in the Communications Team of Friends of the Earth Europe, which campaigns for sustainable and just societies and for the protection of the environment. He worked in the editorial collective of Carbusters for a year and a half, and continues his carfree campaigning on a smaller scale in Brussels - active in the local cycling scene, proud owner of a tall-bike, and editor and writer for the becarfree Be carfree blog with fellow ex-Carbuster Bas Ruyters.

Languages: English
Term: until 2011 AGM

Jane Harding was an EVS volunteer at WCN for twelve months until December 2009. During her volunteer work she was an Editor of Carbusters magazine and the monthly bulletin, and was involved in many other of projects and events in Prague. She is originally from Bristol, UK, where she studied a Masters degree in International Development. Her past work experience includes fundraising, events organising, research, writing and editing publications for non-profit organisations, both in UK and the Czech Republic. Jane now works for Auto*Mat, a Prague-based carfree organisation and WCN member group.

Languages: English
Term: until 2011 AGM

Faizan Jawed is an architect-writer-activist interested in sustainable, equitable and appropriate development in the Global South. He works with a transport research and consultancy firm (iTrans P Ltd) based at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Faizan has been collaborating with NGOs, academics and activists on a local, national and international level to work on promoting sustainable transport especially non-motorized transport. Faizan also works as a Research Fellow with the Institute for Democracy and Sustainability (IDS), an NGO in New Delhi that works on links between transport, livelihood and sustainability.

Faizan was awarded the 2008 Royal Institute of British Architects Norman Foster Traveling Scholarship, which enabled him to travel across 12 countries in 3 continents researching the “Role that Public Transport & Carbon Neutral Mobility in Shaping Sustainable Humane Habitats”. He photographed and co-directed a documentary film “Just Wheels” along with Ashok Mundkur, which has helped further the debate on sustainable transport. Faizan co-founded the Open Bicycles Project Mumbai (OPBM) – a collaborative project aiming at working at the grassroots on sustainable, equitable transport in Mumbai.

On a day-to-day base, Faizan stays motor vehicle-lite and uses a bicycle for most of his daily commutes. He is a member of the recently formed National Cyclists Union of India and is involved in expanding it. He intends to pursue Masters in Urban Planning & Policy soon.

Luis Patricio lives in Curitiba - Brazil and works as a systems analyst and Aikido instructor for kids. Since 2003 he is involved with the Critical Mass local group he helped to create. He is also a founding member of the Cyclists Union of Brazil and the local NGO Grupo Transporte Humano.

Among the projects he helped to coordinate are: Curitiba Commuter’s Challenge, Curitiba Carfree Month and Free Transportation Program. These and other projects focus not only on sustainable mobility. They also support community building, fair/local trade, permaculture practices, and general energy savings. He and his wife are carfree citizens and they have a nice outdoor living room in their garage at home.

Etienne von Bertrab. Info coming soon...

Michael Hoag. Info coming soon

Jessica Mortell. Info coming soon

Andy Shrimpton. Info coming soon

 
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