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, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½members re-elected Radu Dinescu as President for a third term.
ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½members 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 ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Passenger Transport Council, the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Goods Transport Council and the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½General Assembly.
For the first time, the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Passenger Transport Council will have a woman President, Anna Gr?nlund (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 Gr?nlund (Deputy Managing Director, SBF, Sweden)
Additional members of the Presidential Executive
- Asli ?alik (Executive Advisor to Board of Directors, TOBB, T¨¹rkiye)
- Vojtech Hromir (Secretary General, ?esmad Bohemia, Czech Republic)
- Andrey Kurushin (General Director, ASMAP, Russian Federation)
- Erik ?stergaard (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 Gr?nlund
- Vice President: Graham Vidler (Chief Executive Officer, CPT, United Kingdom)
- Vice President: ?znur Yilmaz (Digital Tachograph Manager, TOBB, T¨¹rkiye)
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)