Climate Resilient Transport Networks Webinar Speakers

She is involved in climate services development, inventories of users’ requirements related to climate (change) data and information, and tailoring of climate data for users ranging from impact/adaptation researchers, companies to policy makers. In the past years she has been involved in the ROADAPT and WATCH project (tailoring climate data for  road infrastructure). At this moment she is also involved in the EU projects Climateurope and PRIMAVERA.

Kees is involved in the Rijkswaterstaat Climate resilient networks project, European wide knowledge development (‘Road owners adapting to climate change’),  the long term working plan for replacement and renovation.

He is a member of the ministerial Working group for the development of the National Adaptation Strategy and Agenda of the Netherlands.

He is also involved in knowledge exchange and working together with the US Federal Highway Administration around the topic of resilience of infrastructure

In his current role, he applies this knowledge in various system integration issues. He manages ProRail’s approach to climate adaptation, and the first results of the stress test for the rail network were recently presented by him..

He also uses his own background and broad experience in meteorology to get an idea of ​​how the rail system is affected by climate change, and how this can be responded to by an interaction with many actors within and outside ProRail, bringing knowledge together and provide inspiration. An active approach, which among other things led to a guide to climate adaptation, with which in the first phase of a project it is possible to determine in a structural and traceable manner what task there is locally with regard to climate change and what the project can take into account, for the careful determination of the ambition level for further elaboration with all stakeholders. It is one of the steps towards a climate-proof rail system.

For more info see LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanjak/

He has been working in Supply Chain management for many years, often with focus on stimulation of modal shift, in public and private setting.

In RWS he has been in working on infra-related subjects on both passenger transport / public transport as well as  Physical Distribution (all modalities, including pipelines).

Currently he is involved in the Climate adaptation projects of Rijkswaterstaat.