Policy,PPP, Road Financing, Data Management
Caroline Visser-Bartel
Caroline is an experienced manager with unique expertise in transport policy and planning including research and knowledge management. A former Deputy Director General of the International Road Federation (IRF), she provided intelligence to national road associations, advocacy groups, multinational companies and expert advice to institutions on road infrastructure.
She provides the International Road Federation with strategic advice on the engagement with road sector stakeholders in developing economies.
Caroline advises the European Commission’s Innovations and Network Executive Agency (INEA), which include assessing and reporting on Horizon 2020 research proposals, Connecting Europe Facility and Innovation Fund investment proposals, among others in the fields of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), Automated Road Transport and Energy.
She provided inputs as a senior public finance specialist to the Uganda Road Fund (URF) through IMC Worldwide to research and investigate optional approaches in use in developed, developing and transition economies to advise on the range of funding and administrative approaches in use for road asset management. This includes legislative and institutional basis, funding arrangements, approach to and extent of road user involvement and the governance arrangements.
Caroline has supported the implementation of a programme that reinforced a cost-effective approach to building and operating low volume road and transport services in Africa and Asia through evidence-based policy and practice. She managed knowledge and communications for the UK aid funded Research for Community Access Partnership (ReCAP) to improve infrastructure and transport that strategically links remote rural populations to markets and services to promote economic and social wellbeing. The aim was to realise a cost-effective and reliable infrastructure service through a reinforced evidence-based policy-making capacity and practice. The programme ran from 2014 to 2020.
She held several positions with Rijkswaterstaat, the executive agency of the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment that is responsible for management of the Dutch motorway network. She also worked for the French Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Development at the Concession Motorway Department.
Caroline holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy and Administration from the University of Twente, the Netherlands, with a specialisation in infrastructure networks. She is fluent in English and French and has a good understanding of German.
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