This session will explore sustainable mobility solutions, focusing on waterborne logistics and the efficient management of flows within port cities. Speakers will share innovative projects that reduce congestion, lower emissions, and improve urban–port connectivity.
Sandra Kilroy serves as Senior Director Environment and Sustainability for both the maritime and airport operations of the Port of Seattle. Within this role, she leads the Port’s initiative to decarbonize the maritime and aviation industries, advancing sustainable transportation fuels, and planning for a just transition to a clean fuel economy. Sandra also champions the Port role in habitat restoration, land stewardship, and resiliency. Prior to the Port, Sandra served as the Assistant Director of a large wastewater utility supporting operations, policy, strategic business planning, and capital delivery. During her 30-year career she has directed natural resource programs in holistic watershed restoration, threatened species recovery, river and flood management, and water quality. Sandra demonstrates how global and national environmental priorities are implemented on-the-ground at the local level. She currently serves as President of the Board for the Center for Sustainable Infrastructure, with past Board roles for the National Association of Clean Water Agencies and the Coalition for Clean Water. She has a Masters of Marine Affairs and Bachelor of Science in Environmental and Forest Biology.
Hervé Martel has been a Civil Engineer since 1989. He holds a Master's degree in Transport Economics (1991) and a Master's degree in Public Management (1999). He began his career at the Port of Réunion and has held various management positions, notably at the Port Autonome de Paris, the Seine-et-Marne Departmental Equipment Directorate, and the office of the Minister of State, Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Planning. In 2009, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Ports de Paris, then of the Port of Le Havre in 2012. Since 2019, he has been Chairman of the Executive Board of the Grand Port Maritime de Marseille.
Having worked for more than ten years with local authorities, businesses and institutions on their sustainable development projects (in industrial and regional ecology, energy/climate, etc.), Nicolas Mat also completed a doctoral thesis in 2015 at the Ecole des Mines d'Alès, focusing on industrial ecology and the circular economy as applied to port areas.
This research work enabled him to continue and deepen his reflections, networks and applications around these themes, which stemmed from numerous previous projects and assignments carried out as an independent expert or in partnership at national and international level (North America, Europe, Africa, Asia).
In line with this work and these reflections, but with a stronger operational focus, on 1 April 2016 he took up the position of Secretary General and Project Manager of the PIICTO association (Caban-Tonkin Industrial and Innovation Platform) in Fos-sur-Mer near Marseille.
