IRU - International Road Transport Union

11/08/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 11/08/2024 06:41

IRU, world road transport organisation, elects new leadership for 2025-27

The General Assembly of IRU, the world road transport organisation, has unanimously re-elected Radu Dinescu as President along with new vice presidents and a new Presidential Executive. The 2025-2027 term will mark two significant firsts for women in commercial road transport.

Today in Geneva, IRU members re-elected Radu Dinescu as President for a third term.

IRU members also elected new vice presidents and members of the Presidential Executive (IRU's governing board), as well as members of its passenger and goods council boards.

The voting followed two days of meetings in Geneva which included the IRU Passenger Transport Council, the IRU Goods Transport Council and the IRU General Assembly.

For the first time, the IRU Passenger Transport Council will have a woman President, Anna Grönlund (Deputy Managing Director, SBF, Sweden), and the Presidential Executive will have four women, echoing the road transport sector's drive to boost the representation of women in its workforce.

As of 1 January 2025, IRU's new leadership will be:

President

  • Radu Dinescu (Secretary General, UNTRR, Romania)

Vice presidents

  • Iro Doumani (General Manager, OFAE, Greece)
  • Anna Grönlund (Deputy Managing Director, SBF, Sweden)

Additional members of the Presidential Executive

  • Asli Çalik (Executive Advisor to Board of Directors, TOBB, Türkiye)
  • Vojtech Hromir (Secretary General, Česmad Bohemia, Czech Republic)
  • Andrey Kurushin (General Director, ASMAP, Russian Federation)
  • Erik Østergaard (Chief Executive Officer, DTL, Denmark)
  • Elisabeth Post (President, TLN, Netherlands)
  • Wieslaw Starostka (Director General, ZMPD, Poland)
  • Ramon Valdivia (Executive Vice President, ASTIC, Spain)

Passenger Transport Council (CTP)

  • President: Anna Grönlund
  • Vice President: Graham Vidler (Chief Executive Officer, CPT, United Kingdom)
  • Vice President: Öznur Yilmaz (Digital Tachograph Manager, TOBB, Türkiye)

Goods Transport Council (CTM)

  • President: Iro Doumani
  • Vice President: Bob Costello (Senior Vice President, ATA, United States of America)
  • Vice President: Tariq M. Rangoonwala (Chair, PNC-ICC, Pakistan)