Secretary General, Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail (OTIF)
Bio
As Secretary General of OTIF, Wolfgang is pressing for the even swifter harmonisation of railway law, and strongly believes that making railways the foremost means of transport in the 21st century is our common aim in the context of the urgent social issues of climate change, urbanisation and demographic change.
Recently, as a Head of Division at the German Ministry of Transport, he was responsible for all aspects of railway policy at national, European and international levels and relations with the railway industry.
Wolfgang is a lawyer with more than 28 years’ professional experience, notably as a solicitor, then as a legal advisor in Deutsche Bundesbahn’s legal service and in the German Federal Government.