TUMI 2026 Conference

Gustavo Gardini is Head of Global Partnerships and Sustainable Investments at Deutsche Bahn E.C.O. Group in Berlin. He manages global relations with infrastructure and real estate investors as well as multilateral development banks.

He previously served as Business Director for Latin America at DB E.C.O., contributing to the establishment of the group’s operations in Brazil, and as Director of the Infrastructure Department at the Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo (FIESP). Before joining Deutsche Bahn, he worked on renewable energy investments in Europe and Latin America.

He holds a degree in Environmental Management and Sustainability from the Technological University of Cottbus, and studied Civil Engineering at UFMG (Brazil) and Engineering Management at Politecnico di Milano.

Khadija Jallouli is the CEO of HawKar, a startup advancing inclusive and sustainable mobility through innovation. Under her leadership, HawKar develops accessible mobility solutions that improve transportation for people with disabilities while contributing to more equitable urban mobility systems. Khadija is passionate about leveraging technology and entrepreneurship to create social impact and has been actively involved in initiatives promoting accessibility, inclusion and sustainable transport.

Lena Plikat has experience in divers sectors of urban planning and mobility, including consulting, project management, research and communication. Prior to joining GIZ, she has worked as a Research Assistant at the German Aerospace Centre, focusing on the co-creation of mobility and transport planning through digital tools. She is committed to developing sustainable and user-friendly mobility solutions for all.

As Head of Sustainability at the International Union of Railways (UIC), Lucie Anderton leads the environmental technical topics as well as global advocacy for rail as a climate solution. UIC is the global association of railway organisations. On secondment from Network Rail, the UK Rail Infrastructure Manager, Lucie has 18 years of experience in sustainability policy and environmental management in the rail industry and major infrastructure projects. Lucie also acts as the coordinator for the North American Region for UIC.

Madina Anet is the Business Development Director at Semurg Invest, a Kazakh investment company developing the Sarzha Multifunctional Marine Terminal at the port of Kuryk on the Caspian Sea.

Mahak Agrawal works at the intersection of cities, energy, and public policy, translating complex climate science into ideas that are genuinely useful and implementable. She currently leads the India portfolio at Riding Sunbeams, a UK-born social enterprise integrating solar energy into rail and mass transit infrastructure, where her work centers on India’s rail electrification and freight decarbonisation efforts as part of the country’s path to net zero by 2030.

Alongside this, Mahak is the founder of All Bits Count (ABC), a creative climate storytelling project she launched during the COVID-19 pandemic to make sustainability communication more accessible and less guilt-driven. Since then, ABC has grown into a recognized platform for climate storytelling, having been featured at global forums including the UN Summit of the Future and COP29. She also serves on the Steering Board of ITACUS, the international committee advancing policy and governance frameworks for the sustainable use of underground space.

Over more than a decade, Mahak has worked with organizations including the OECD, UNEP, the World Bank, and several Indian ministries on urban planning and climate policy. An unconventional entrant to the field—she began her academic path in medicine and engineering before finding her footing in urban planning—she holds an MPA from Columbia University and two gold medals in Urban Planning from the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi.

Mahak brings a rare combination of technical depth, policy fluency, and storytelling instinct to conversations about how cities and infrastructure can meet the climate moment.

Nineteen years in logistics and oil, two industries that rarely leave a woman in charge. Today she leads FedEx’s operator in Ecuador, and she’s turned last-mile delivery into something more: an electric fleet, optimized routes, reverse logistics fighting waste. In 2024, she was named among Ecuador’s Top 100 leaders and its Top 10 Women in Digital Leadership. With no woman ahead of her in either industry to learn from, María Paulina simply built the standard herself. That’s the model her supply chain runs on today, and the reason others are now trying to catch up.

Senior Strategy Director at the Kuehne Climate Center (KCC), a Hamburg-based think-and-do tank under the Kühne Foundation. He guides the KCC’s growing work on the intersection of logistics and climate action, ensuring the center adds clear value to that space. The KCC develops and implements logistics-oriented solutions that reduce emissions, remove CO2 from the atmosphere, and strengthen climate resilience for a low-carbon transition.

Maureen Ava Mata is a bone cancer survivor, a leader, an influencer, a disability and gender advocate, and a woman with disability who fights for the inclusion, dignity, and rights of persons with disabilities. She graduated Medicine at Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (University of the City of Manila) and currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Public Administration at University of Makati.

She is a member of several NGOs (i.e. Move as One Coalition – commuters rights, Advocates of Inclusion, Legal Network for Truthful Elections)for inclusion of persons with disabilities.

She is also A member of the board of several organizations of persons with disabilities (i.e. AKAP-Pinoy, WOWLeap) and also a Council Member of the National Anti-Poverty Commission Persons with Disabilities Sectoral Council.

Edna Mercy Manyasa is the Director of Transport Futures, an independent African transport think tank working at the intersection of mobility and energy transitions for Africa’s socio-economic transformation. She is a Transportation Engineer, Assistant Lecturer at Egerton University Kenya, and PhD candidate in Transportation Engineering at JKUAT. Her areas of expertise include transport research and data, electric mobility, sustainable mobility, transport policy, and intelligent transport systems. She has supported urban mobility projects as a consultant with UN-Habitat, road infrastructure projects at the Kenya Urban Roads Authority, as well as renewable energy and power transmission projects. She is passionate about electric mobility in Africa and mentoring the next generation of transport professionals. She has been recognized as a Catalyst for Change in Sustainable Transport in Africa and is an Agora Sustainable Transport Fellow.

Eng. Moses N. Kuiyaki graduated from JKUAT university in 1998 with a degree in civil engineering and has been working in Nairobi City County for over 18 years in the Transport Department of the Mobility and Works sector.

He has been involved in formulation of various plans, policies, programs and projects. These include Nairobi NMT policy, Nairobi City County Transport Act and regulations, Nairobi bus network plan, NMT expansion programs, first and last mile connectivity programs. He, and his team,  are currently working on the NMT master plan for Nairobi City.