Lucie Kirstein joined EIT Urban Mobility in May 2025 as Data Expert in the Strategy Team. She is a transportation specialist with 10 years of experience in transport policy, economics and innovation. Until April 2025, Lucie managed the European projects team at the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech), where she coordinated the European mobility data space (EMDS) deployment project with 45 partners across Europe and served as expert to the EC’s European Data Innovation Board, among other roles. In her previous position as Transport Analyst at the OECD’s International Transport Forum (ITF-OECD), she advised member ministries, organised high-level policy discussions and authored several studies at the intersection of transport decarbonisation, digital transformation and industrial policy.
Lucie holds a master’s degree in International Economic Policy and International Development from Sciences Po Paris. Having lived for extended periods in France, Jordan, Lebanon, Canada and Costa Rica, Lucie speaks German, French, English, and Spanish fluently, and has intermediate proficiency in Arabic, Italian, and Portuguese.
Selected publications or texts
Kirstein, L. (2023), Mobility data as a commons – towards a common mobility data infrastructure, Opinion Article in: MONTERO-PASCUAL, Juan J., FINGER, Matthias, DE ABREU DUARTE, Francisco Miguel, Creating a common European mobility data space, EUI, RSC, Policy Brief, 2023/02, Florence School of Regulation, https://hdl.handle.net/1814/75349
ITF/OECD (2021), Innovations for Better Rural Mobility, ITF Research Reports, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/6dbf832a-en.
ITF/OECD (2021), Connecting Remote Communities, ITF Roundtable Reports, No. 179, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/a259ab33-en.
ITF/OECD (2020), Navigating Towards Cleaner Maritime Shipping: Lessons From the Nordic Region, International Transport Forum Policy Papers, No. 80, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/ab3d3fbc-en.
ITF/OECD (2020), The Future of Passenger Mobility and Goods Transport in Estonia – Input Study for the Estonian Transport and Mobility Master Plan, International Transport Forum Policy Papers, No. 78, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/9db7333e-en.
ITF/OECD (2019), Maritime Subsidies: Do They Provide Value for Money?, International Transport Forum Policy Papers, No. 70, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/919d4222-en.
ITF/OECD (2018), Government Support Measures for Domestic Air Connectivity, International Transport Forum Policy Papers, No. 65, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/8e475cbc-en.
ITF/OECD (2018), The Impact of Alliances in Container Shipping, International Transport Forum Policy Papers, No. 62, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/61e65d38-en.
ITF/OECD (2018), Information Sharing for Efficient Maritime Logistics, International Transport Forum Policy Papers, No. 57, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/def963a5-en.
Halim, R.A.; Kirstein, L.; Merk, O.; Martinez, L.M. Decarbonization Pathways for International Maritime Transport: A Model-Based Policy Impact Assessment. Sustainability 2018, 10, 2243. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10072243
ITF/OECD (2018), Decarbonising Maritime Transport: Pathways to zero-carbon shipping by 2035, International Transport Forum Policy Papers, No. 47, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/b1a7632c-en.
ITF/OECD (2018), The Mediterranean Middle East and North Africa 2018: Interim Assessment of Key SME Reforms, SME Policy Index, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264304161-en.