Caroline Alméras is a senior European public affairs specialist with +25 years’ experience in EU public relations, legal advising and advocacy in the transport research field.
After working several years as a lawyer at the European Commission then at the French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME), she joins the European Conference of Transport Research Institutes (ECTRI) in 2003 in charge of developing the activities of the association. In 2009, she is recruited as Deputy Director for European and International affairs at the French Institute for Transport Research (INRETS, now University Gustave Eiffel). The year after she is appointed Secretary General of ECTRI. From then, she is responsible for the strategic development, representation and overall management of the ECTRI Association. In this capacity, she has also been actively engaged and coordinated some activities in several strategic European projects such as SETRIS (European Strategic Research Agendas in the field of transport), SKILLFUL (Skills and competences development of future transportation professionals), BE OPEN (Open Science in Transport), TRA/TRAVISIONS (support to the organization of the TRA conference and related researchers young and senior competitions), SYMPEUS (Support to the organization of four EU-US Symposia 2024-2028), RESKILLING (Research initiative for Enhancing and Adapting Workforce SKILLs for Implementing TraNsport Automation with Employment Growth 2025-2027), and BIO-INTEL-MED (Integrating Sustainable Mobility and Logistics with Citizen-centric Intelligent solutions for safe, smart, green, resilient and inclusive cities 2026-2029). In April 2018, she was appointed member of the TRB International Cooperation Committee (A0010) and a year later co-chair of that Committee. In October 2025, she is appointed Vice Co-Chair of the TRB Executive Subcommittee on International Activities which succeeds the TRB International Coordinating Council – ICC (A0020C), which she was co-chairing since 2020. In 2024, she is appointed to the Board of Advisors of the Institute of Transportation Studies, at University of California, Davis.
Caroline can be contacted in English and French.
Contact:
caroline(dot)almeras(at)ectri(dot)org
+32 (0) 2 401 68 75