Governance, Sustainability & Valuation in Data Sharing for Public Transport

Sherena Hussain is an accomplished innovator and applied practitioner in delivering engaging executive education globally. She is an academic in infrastructure as well as a business and legal professional in the area of public-private partnerships, contracts, and transaction support. Sherena is Academic Director of the prestigious G7 Sustainable Infrastructure Fellowship Program and faculty member at the Brookfield Centre in Real Estate and Infrastructure at the Schulich School of Business, York University. She practiced law at McCarthy Tetrault LLP, and has worked on numerous complex and leading infrastructure projects globally. In addition, she has worked at Infrastructure Ontario, facilitating the procurement and delivery of infrastructure projects using different forms of financing, including the use of Public-Private-Partnerships.

David is a technology economist who advises firms, courts and regulators on the impact of technology on society. He has 19 years’ experience across a wide range of sectors including, energy, post, healthcare and financial services, as well as digital markets. He provides expert advice on privacy, liability, fairness and competition in digital markets. This includes product design, investments, mergers and public policy choices. David delivers insights from data using econometrics, data science tools, and behavioural insights (through the use of experiments and simulation tools). He has advised companies such as Facebook, Amazon, Google, Liberty Global and ASML, as well as regulators and consumer bodies.

Andreea Antuca is an Economic Consultant in the Digital practice and a member of the Competition and Analytics teams at Oxera, a European business specialising in economics and finance. She has experience in public policy assessments, in particular for digital regulation, market investigations, litigation and damages estimation. She has also been involved in the debate on data access advising a number of clients from different sectors on the economic and financial issues of data sharing.

She co-authored the article ‘Data: how it affects competitive dynamics, how to value it, and whether to provide third-party access to it’ in the Competition Law Journal and won the International Institute of Communication 2021 Future Leaders’ Competition with a submission on ‘What principles should guide policy-makers in designing local and international approaches for internet intermediaries in the evolving communications environment?’. Before joining Oxera in 2017, Andreea completed an MPhil in Economics at the University of Oxford focusing on industrial organisation and econometrics. She also worked as a research assistant on projects ranging from impact evaluation to developing differential privacy algorithms for open data.

Waltraut Ritter is an international mobility researcher and served as senior research lead in the Technology Research Project at the University of Hong Kong on “Intermodal Transport Data Sharing”, a multi-stakeholder programme on sustainable mobility in Hong Kong, which a special focus on monitoring international public transport developments.

The Intermodal Transport Data Sharing Programme is an initiative to build a trusted environment for a large and diverse group of stakeholders to collaborate on sustainable mobility in Hong Kong.

Ritter is an information scientist specializing in applied research on knowledge-based economy at Knowledge Dialogues, which she founded in Hong Kong in 1997. She is now based in Berlin, working on integrating pedestrian data into public transport systems.

Research areas include urban data policies and regional innovation systems, public sector innovation, governance in digital/smart cities, and sustainable urban mobility. She regularly contributes on these topics to working groups of international and multilateral organisations such as UNESCAP, Asian Development Bank and OECD.

Chloe is a senior product manager in the T&D Digital team at Transport for London (TfL). Her responsibilities include TfL’s open data service, which provides London transit data for third-party services and also powers TfL’s own products, including the TfL Go travel app. Before joining TfL in 2018, Chloe was head of product at Freesat, the UK’s free-to-air satellite TV platform, and prior to that spent many years at the BBC.

Luc was born and raised in The Netherlands. He studied Econometrics & Operational Research at the University of Amsterdam. After his graduation he started as a consultant. From 2001 until 2009 Luc worked for Transdev-Connexxion, the largest bus operator in the Netherlands. He was involved in the implementation of the Dutch nationwide e-ticketing system and responsible for tariffs, marketing and sales. In 2009 Luc was one of the founders of Zight that supports the transit industry in benefitting from the value of their data.

Zight supports public transport operators & authorities in benefitting from their data. With information systems, consultancy and training we help to improve profit, performance and satisfaction using the available data. We serve clients like RTA Dubai, DB Arriva, Veolia, Qbuzz Abellio, RET Rotterdam, UITP, Albany (NY), RATP DEV and the Dutch Railways.