Karen Vancluysen was appointed as Secretary General of POLIS in September 2014, after having been the network’s Research Director for 10 years. Prior to that, she worked as network manager at ACCESS-Eurocities and as project manager at Langzaam Verkeer, a Belgian centre for mobility management. Since 1998, Karen has been involved in European urban transport networking and policy activities, and EU research and innovation projects covering a wide range of urban mobility topics. She has been a speaker and moderator at many high-level events in Europe and beyond, on a wide range of urban mobility themes addressed from the perspective of cities and the governance of innovation. POLIS is the leading European network of cities and regions on urban transport innovation. For 35 years already, members have been working together to develop and deploy sustainable and innovative urban mobility solutions for the city of today and tomorrow.
Selected speaking engagements
POLIS Conferences, TRB, Velocity conferences, MOVE, Tomorrow Mobility World Congresses, Transforming Transportation, CIVITAS Conferences, Urban Mobility Days, Urbanism Next US & Europe, ITF Summits, Walk21 Conference, TUMI Conference, and many more.
Awards and recognitions
CIVITAS Lifetime Award