The IRU General Assembly elected Christian Labrot as IRU President for the term 2016-2017.

Labrot enjoys a distinguished career in transport, which started in 1979 at BWV, the German Association of Professional Transport Companies and Shippers.  He was appointed Managing Director of BWV in 1990 and became Secretary General of the German Federation of Economics, Transport and Logistics (BWVL e.V.) in 1995.

Labrot commented: “I am committed to doing my utmost to live up to the expectations that our members deserve. I will work to ensure that IRU is innovative, modern, efficient and more business-like and that we further improve our governance and transparency. I am confident that the best pages of IRU history have yet to be written.”

Mr Labrot has served as a member of various IRU Commissions for many years and studied economics at the University of Bonn, Germany (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität), specialising in transport economics, where he graduated in 1979. He holds an MA in Economics, is happily married, and is the proud father of two children.

As of 1 January 2016, the new IRU leadership will be:

Presidential Executive

President 
Christian LABROT      Secretary General, BWVL e V., Germany

Vice Presidents

Yves MANNAERTS                      Administrator-Director, FBAA, Belgium

Radu DINESCU                                Secretary General, UNTRR, Romania

Members

Florence BERTHELOT               Deputy General Delegate, FNTR, France

Jan BUCZEK                                                   President, ZMPD, Poland

Bekmyrat EYEBERDIEV                       Chairman, THADA, Turkmenistan

Leonid KOSTYUCHENKO                        President, AsMAP UA, Ukraine

Andrey KURUSHIN             General Director, ASMAP, Russian Federation

Erlandas MIKENAS                                    President, LINAVA, Lithuania

Jos SALES                                           President, FLEAA, Luxembourg

It is interesting to note that, considering the current flurry of activities in the IRU Taxi Group, no taxi representative is found in the upper echelons of the organization.

• IRU’s new president: Christian Labrot.