Chairwoman
Deutsche Bahn AG
Rechtsanwältin
Leiterin Team Internationale Verbände Verkehrspolitik Europa (IWE)
Organisation
CIT’s highest decision-making body is the General Assembly, which is responsible for determining overall association policy. The Executive Committee is the lead at the operational and administrative levels., while the Secretary-General manages day-to-day business. The CIT committees sign off on the products developed by the working groups. For specific issues, groups of experts are convened as required.
The Executive Committee is responsible for operational and administrative management of the CIT. It has the following tasks:
- making the arrangements for meetings of the General Assembly;
- preparing the Annual Accounts and the Budget;
- approving the Annual Report;
- expressing views on drafts of international rail transport law;
- fixing the conditions of service of the staff and laying down the financial regulations;
- supervising the management of the Secretary General.
The Executive Committee comprises nine members at most and is composed in a representative way. The CIT Chairman is a member as of right. The Executive Committee meets twice a year as a rule (in April and in September).
Maria Sack
Maria Urbańska
Deputy chairwoman
PKP CARGO S.A.
Head of Department, Strategy and International Cooperation Office.
Platon Guryanov
RZD - Russian Railways ***
Head of international division at the Legal Department
*** the collaboration is temporarily suspended
Luca Arnold
SBB CFF FFS
Director of Regulatory and International Affairs
Marie Wirtgen
SNCB
General Counsel Legal Affairs
Alberto Gallo
TRENITALIA S.p.A.
Direzione Affari Legali e Societari
Fernando de Lucas de Rose
RENFE
Deputy Secretary General
Diane Lemercier
SNCF - CAPTRAIN France
Head of legal
Gerald Wieser
Rail Cargo Group
Abteilungsleiter Schadens- und Versicherungsmanagement
The General Secretariat manages the CIT. It is composed of eight staff members and has the following tasks:
- implementing the decisions of the General Assembly and the Executive Committee;
- making the arrangements for the meetings of the Executive Committee;
- preparing the Annual Report, the Annual Accounts and Budget for presentation to the Executive Committee;
- convening and taking part in meetings of committees and working groups.
Gilles Mugnier
Secretary General
Phone: +41 (0)31 350 01 93
gilles.mugnier(at)cit-rail.org
Erik Evtimov, Dr. iur.
Deputy Secretary General
Phone: +41 (0)31 350 01 97
erik.evtimov(at)cit-rail.org
Nina Scherf
Senior Legal Adviser
Passenger traffic, Use of infrastructure
Phone: +41 31 350 01 94
Jan Vavra
Expert
Passenger traffic
Phone: +41 (0)31 350 01 91
Guillaume Murawa
Jacqueline Haymoz
Rupa Nusrat Kazi
The committees are competent to adopt provisions on the implementation and application of international rail transport law in a standardised and practical way (in order to produce CIT documentation). To do that, the General Assembly delegates powers to them. The committees are composed in a representative way.
CIV Committee (passenger traffic)
Isabelle Saintilan
Chairwoman
Head of Greenspeed Governance Planning – Legal
Eurostar International Limited
CIM Committee (freight traffic)
Julie Meunier
Chair
SNCF
CUI Committee (use of infrastructure)
Alberto Gallo
Chair a.i.
TRENITALIA S.p.A.
Direzione Affari Legali e Societari
Multimodality Committee
Maria Kalimeri
Chairwoman
ATTICA GROUP (Blue Star Ferries & Superfast Ferries)
Railway Key Account Manager
Working groups are responsible for preparing recommendations for decisions by the committees.
Their members are chosen for their skills in the area in question.
CIV Working Group (passenger traffic)
Oliver Hirschfeld
Chair
Deutsche Bahn AG
Leiter Team int. Eisenbahnrecht / Rechtsabteilung Personenverkehr (CRP)
CIM Working Group (freight traffic)
Carola Folch von Sydow
Chairwoman of the CIM Working Group
DB Cargo AG
Principal Expert Internationales Schienengüterverkehrsrecht
Multimodality Working group
Erik Evtimov
Chair
Deputy Secretary General to the CIT
Steering Group / Expert and legal Group CIM/SMGS
Working Group CIV/SMPS
Groups of experts are constituted to examine specific issues. Their members are specialists in the topic in question.
Data Protection Working Group
Martin Leiter
Chair
Data Protection Officer
Seals Group of Experts
Jürgen Scholz
Chair
DB Cargo AG
Rechts- und Expertengruppe CIM/SMGS / Arbeitsgruppe CIV/SMPS