Founding Partner and Managing Director
Ms Caroline Visser Bartel’ experience in the road infrastructure sector stretches two decades. Her substantive expertise covers infrastructure financing, project finance, contracting, Public-Private Partnerships, road asset management and Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS).
She has managed programmes, projects, research, knowledge and communications on a range of topics with a number of organisations both in the public and private sector.
She is former Deputy Director-General of the International Road Federation (IRF) in Geneva, where she coordinated IRF's work on sustainable road financing and Public-Private Partnerships (PPP), established the IRF Policy Committee on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) and is the Lead author of the IRF Vienna Manifesto on ITS.
She worked for over a decade in several positions at Rijkswaterstaat, the executive agency of the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment. Caroline also worked in Paris for the French Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Development at the Motorway Concessions Department.
Caroline combines the unique experience of having worked in the public sector in the Netherlands, France and internationally with a profound understanding of private sector issues having represented the interests of the road industry globally.
She is pragmatic, analytical and maintains a secure global network that includes road construction industry, research institutions, donors and multilateral development banks, transport consultancies and the ITS industry. She has grasped the art of diplomacy working with senior government officials and road authority representatives worldwide.
Partner and Director, Data and Intelligence
Dr Gonzalez is responsible for Global Road Link's transport data analytics and intelligence. He was the Director of Statistics and Data at the International Road Federation (IRF), Geneva, a position he held between 2011 to 2018.
Cristian collected and analysed and provided data to the Inter-American Development Bank, the International Labour Organization (ILO), the World Health Organization (WHO), the European Investment Bank (EIB), Academia and the World Bank for the World Development Indicators (WDI). Leading business consulting and investment firms and public institutions in the fields of statistics, econometrics and finance use the tailored data.
Cristian prepared and published IRF’s (2011-2018) annual flagship publication, the IRF World Road Statistics. Meticulous work that involved data collection, validation, aggregation and dissemination of official data and indicators for over 205 countries pulled from primary sources of statistics (National Statistics Offices, Road Authorities and Ministries) in key specific subjects: road networks, road traffic, road accidents, road expenditures and revenues, energy consumption, multimodal transport on freight and passengers, vehicles fleet and vehicles industry.
Cristian’s highly acclaimed work has earned him several accolades, such as one for the special IRF World Road Statistics 50th Anniversary edition in 2013 (Millenium data 2000-2011). Michelin sponsored the publication and the quality of the data was endorsed by the following international institutions: The World Bank Group; United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE); OECD/International Transport Forum (ITF); American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO); Australian Road Research Board (ARRB) Group; International Energy Agency ( IEA); International Road Transport Union (IRU); Indian Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH); Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC); Roads Australia; United Nations Road Safety Collaboration (UNRSC).