Funding and Financing

Guido Bruggeman is an international urban transport expert with over 40 years’ experience in the urban transport sector. After his study at the Breda University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands, he started his career in 1980 at the Municipal Transport Company (GVB) in Amsterdam (Netherlands) where he held several positions in planning and operations of public transport. From 2000, he worked for 7 years as an Urban Transport Specialist at the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London. Since 2007, he is working as an independent international urban transport consultant with specific focus on public transport. He has hands-on experience with design and optimisation of public transport networks, operations planning, multi-modal integration, sustainable urban mobility plans and development of institutional and organisational frameworks for urban transport. Guido is Lead Trainer for international training programs of the UITP Academy. He has working experience in 35 countries around the world and worked with all major multilateral Financial Institutions like ADB, AfDB, EIB, EBRD, IFC and World Bank as well as with GIZ, UNDP, AFD, KfW and KIAT.

Julian Ware has worked for Transport for London since 2007 following spells in consultancy and as a government official. He has chaired the UITP Transport Economics Committee since 2019. He specialises in funding solutions for transport projects.

Rachel has a BA (Hons) in Geography from University of Oxford and holds the inaugural Masters in Carbon Management from University of Edinburgh Business School. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport.

Since graduating from Oxford, Rachel worked as a consultant beginning her career as a transport planner with WSP then worked for a start-up advising companies in the transport sector on how to reduce their carbon emissions. She then set up her own firm (Surbon Consulting) in the UK supporting transport operators such as Keolis, Go-Ahead, Serco and MTR on  business development and contract mobilisation  covering contract management, sustainability and customer experience. She has worked across all modes of transport: rail, metro, bus, ferry and cycle hire and more recently electric scooters. She set up a UAE branch of Surbon Consulting in 2017 and has delivered work in UAE, Qatar and Saudi.

She has been a member of UITP since 2015 and has found the conferencing and training courses offered by UITP extremely valuable. She has been an UITP trainer delivering training to TGA (Saudi), RTA (Dubai) and LTA (Singapore).

Mr. Tali Trigg is Principal Green Cities, Electric Mobility. He joined EBRD in January 2022, supporting the Green Cities programme and the Bank as its first electric mobility specialist, working across all sustainable transport projects. He has a Master of Environmental Management and a Bachelor of Political Science, with over 15 years of experience working in climate change and sustainable transport and energy across all continents, working for amongst others GIZ in Southeast Asia, the International Energy Agency, and as a climate finance consultant. He is a native of Sweden.

Ian has over 25 years of experience in transport sector, including project development and transport planning at urban, national and regional levels, multi-sector infrastructure and private sector/PPP development, with extensive familiarity with international development and funding institutions, including EBRD, AfDB, AsDB, World Bank and EU.

As part of the Sustainable Infrastructure Group at EBRD, Ian leads the transport advisory team to provide technical support to banking teams through identification, preparation and delivery of sustainable transport projects and policy support across the Bank’s countries of operations. . The sector delivers over 1 billion euro of annual investments for the Bank, across urban and national transport spheres and its countries of operation from Morocco to Mongolia.

Ian holds an MBA from HEC-Paris and an MSc in Civil Engineering from University of Manchester and is a fluent English and French speaker.

Stephen Dadswell is Head of Corporate Finance at Transport for London, which is London’s integrated transport authority, and main public transport owner and operator. TfL’s Corporate Finance team is responsible for managing TfL’s corporate debt, cash balances, insurance, third party funding and structuring and executing complex, multi-stakeholder financing transactions.

In a 16-year career at TfL, Stephen has been responsible for structuring and closing the Silvertown Tunnel PPP ($1.25bn) and the acquisitions of the Metronet and Tube Lines PPPs, refinancing $5bn of debt. Stephen has also been responsible for developing funding and financing solutions for a series of other large ($1bn+) infrastructure projects including other new river crossings and rail/tube network extensions. He is also leading the procurement of a power purchase agreement for up to 200 GWh of renewable electricity to support TfL’s aim to be carbon neutral by 2030.

Stephen has also been responsible for setting up and managing an innovative new commercial revenue development team within TfL. He has previously worked in corporate finance teams in PricewaterhouseCoopers and started his working career as a design engineer at Over Arup on the UK’s first high speed rail line after graduating from the University of Cambridge.

Outside of TfL, Stephen holds two trusteeships of the Transport Benevolent Fund charity and the Dockland Light Railway Pension Fund.

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