Chairwoman
Deutsche Bahn AG
Rechtsanwältin
Leiterin Team Internationale Verbände Verkehrspolitik Europa (IWE)
Organisation
CIT’s supreme 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, Office for Development, Investor Relations and Marketing
Platon Guryanov
RZD - Russian Railways ***
Head of international division at the Legal Department
*** the collaboration is temporarily suspended
Gilles Mugnier
SNCF
International Affairs Director
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
Gerald Wieser
Rail Cargo Austria AG
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.
Cesare Brand
Secretary General
Phone: +41 (0)31 350 01 93
Fax: +41 (0)31 350 01 99
cesare.brand(at)cit-rail.org
Erik Evtimov, Dr. iur.
Deputy Secretary General
Phone: +41 (0)31 350 01 97
Fax: +41 (0)31 350 01 99
erik.evtimov(at)cit-rail.org
Nina Scherf
Senior Legal Adviser
Passenger traffic, Use of infrastructure
Phone: +41 31 350 01 94
Fax: +41 (0)31 350 01 99
Dariia Scarlino
Expert
CIM/SMGS, CIV/SMPS, Expert Group Seals
Phone: +41 (0)31 350 01 96
Fax: +41 (0)31 350 01 99
Jan Vavra
Expert
Passenger traffic
Phone: +41 (0)31 350 01 91
Fax : +41 (0)31 350 01 99
Guillaume Murawa
Legal Adviser
Freight Trafic
Phone: +41 (0)31 350 01 94
Fax: +41 (0)31 350 01 99
guillaume.murawa(at)cit-rail.org
Loïc Gioria
Administrative Assistant
Communication - CIT News - Website - Passenger - Infrastructure
Phone: +41 (0)31 350 01 90
Fax: +41 (0)31 350 01 99
loic.gioria(at)cit-rail.org
Nicolas Keller
Administrative Assistant
Accounting - Personal managment - Membership managment - Freight
Phone: +41 (0)31 350 01 92
Fax: +41 (0)31 350 01 99
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)
Gilles Mugnier
President
SNCF
Directeur Juridique adjoint
CUI Committee (use of infrastructure)
Adriaan Hagdorn
Chair
Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS)
Senior In-House-Lawyer
CUI Committee (use of infrastructure)
Alberto Gallo
Deputises for the Chair
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)
Cristian Cuenca
Chair
DB Cargo AG
Legal Advisor
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
Seals Group of Experts
Jürgen Scholz
DB Cargo AG
President
Rechts- und Expertengruppe CIM/SMGS / Arbeitsgruppe CIV/SMPS