Speakers 2019

Meridian Meridian Energy is New Zealand’s largest 100% renewable energy generator and retailer. Meridian provides 1/3rd of all of New Zealand’s electricity through wind and water. As a 100% renewable company Meridian is focused on sustainability and has been named as one of New Zealand’s most sustainable brands for the past ten years….

Arval Michael Benabdallah is the General Manager at Arval Norway. Arval, founded in 1989 and fully owned by BNP Paribas, is specialized in full service vehicle leasing. The company offers its clientele of professionals, SMEs, Mid and large international companies tailor-made solutions to provide optimal fleet solutions. Arval is strongly involved in the energy…

AMNESTY Mark Dummett is researcher on Business and Human Rights at Amnesty International. He investigates the ways in which corporations cause or contribute to human rights violations around the world. He was the lead author of the Amnesty International report, “This is What We Die For,” which exposed how cobalt mined by adults and…

ZERO Kåre Gunnar Fløystad is Head of policy and research in ZERO (Zero Emission Resource Organisation). He has for several years been working on a wide range of climate solutions and the interdependencies between policy, business/industry and technology to reduce carbon emissions. Fløystad has broad knowledge about aviation in general, experience in…

Forth Jeanette Shaw serves as Forth’s Senior Director of Public Relations and directs communications, government affairs, marketing, and membership at Forth. She works to develop transportation electrification and e-mobility legislative and regulatory policies as well as marketing and communication strategies for Forth. Previously, Jeanette also served as Vice President of Government Relations,…

CUMMINS Julie Furber is the Executive Director of the Electrified Power segment at Cummins. She is responsible for overseeing the development and acceleration of Cummins knowledge and capability in electrification, positioning the company to be the leading provider of electrified powertrains in commercial and industrial markets. A disruptor at heart, Julie has…

The Swedish National 2030-secretariat Jakob Lagercrantz has spent his professional life working on sustainability in many forms. He worked since 1984 in various positions in Greenpeace Sweden, towards the end of his eleven year as Executive Director. He went on to build an environmental consultancy, and while engaging in different organizations he…

Institute of Transport Economics Inger Beate Hovi is Chief Research Economist for industry and freight transport at the Institute of Transport Economics, Oslo. Research experience includes freight transport modelling and analysis, network models, commodity flow matrices and analyses, forecasting freight transport, cost-benefit analysis and analysis of competition in the freight transport marked in…

TØI Inga Margrete Ydersbond is a researcher at the Institute of Transport Economics (Transportøkonomisk institutt, TØI). Ydersbond does research on electrification of the transport sector, including electric cars, electric bikes and charging infrastructure. A key focus for her is the connection between political decisions, the policies that are created to attain these…

IKEA Norway Anders Lennartsson is working as sustainability manager at IKEA Norway. He has long experience from IKEA with sustainability as the green thread. Before he came to Norway, three years ago, he had the role as health and sustainability manager for IKEA’s global food business.  IKEA has a goal of becoming…