New representatives in the Drive Sweden Program Office

While welcoming these additions we would like to take the opportunity to give our warmest thanks to Lars Polgren, Nobina, Ulrik Janusson, Scania, Vaike Fors, Halmstad University and Sara Nozkova, Kista Science City for your important contributions to the program office and to Drive Sweden. Ulrik is since the turn of the year a new member of our board, replacing Tony Sandberg from Scania, and Vaike will continue her engagement within the Drive Sweden Public Engagement Network.

Drive Sweden recently reached half time as a Strategic Innovation Program (SIP) and we look forward to our future stages. The new persons who will contribute along the way are:

Azra Habibovic is working as Technology Leader Human Factors at Scania and will be supporting Drive Sweden as an expert (PhD) on traffic safety, UX of automated vehicles and behavior in mobility.

Anders Bengtsson is a Business Developer at the City of Lund, one of the 100 designated cities for EU's Cities Mission 2030 for climate-neutral cities. He will contribute to an intensified and deeper collaboration between cities and Drive Sweden, not least in southern Sweden and the Öresund region.

Marketta Jurmu is an Innovation Leader at Västtrafik, a public transport company very active in the development of solutions for the public transport of the future. Through her involvement in the UITP, International Association of Public Transport, Marketta also strengthens the programme's international capabilities.

Lionel Belzons from CEVT has a long background in vehicle design and development. Today, he is responsible for the Strategy and Project Portfolio for Sustainable Mobility at the CEVT Innovation Department. Lionel will contribute to solving challenges about the next generation's sustainable design for the transportation system – at vehicle and system level.

Mia Hesselgren is working at KTH where she researches in Design for Sustainability and is the Research Program Leader at ITRL, Integrated Transport Research Lab. Mia will, as an expert in the field, support Drive Sweden in efforts regarding how to use collaborative design methods to engage with other research areas and how to engage citizens, stakeholders in both the private and public sectors and civil society.

Find the Program office here