Christopher Ziemann, Aicp Email & Phone Number

Alexandria, Virginia, US

• Senior manager of seven staff, overseeing the City’s on-the-ground planning, programming, and implementation of:
• Climate change mitigation and decarbonization
• Long range sustainability planning
• Bilateral and multilateral governmental coordination
• Legislative policy analysis and coordination
• Transit and public vehicle charging strategies

Washington, D.C., US

Review papers submitted to the Committee for publication and presentation at Annual Meeting of TRB

Volunteer Mentor for two-year project funded by the US State Department to develop carbon emission estimation software for logistics firms in Penang. Goal is to scale up nation-wide to achieve UNSDP climate goals.

Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, DE

• The Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship Program was a distinguished transatlantic initiative that offered fifteen accomplished Americans a comprehensive professional development program in Germany.
• Seminars for fellows included: o Germany’s Wind Power and Clean Energy transition o German government and politics o EU political systems o Introduction to NATO o Private sector training programs o Trade Agreements o.
• High level work placements: o Hamburger Hochbahn AG (Transit Provider) – Advised and learned about public engagement in Germany o Hamburger Verkehrsverbund (Regional Public Transportation Association)
• Blog: BeyondTheAutobahn.com

Omaha, Nebraska, US

• Deputy Project Manager for the East St. Louis HSR Station feasibility study
• Contributed to Projects with Houston Metro, Metra Commuter Rail

Projects include the 2014 Transportation Summit, Legacy Charrettes for CNU 23, Federal Housing Finance Reform, and Equitable Street Design

• Oversaw the U.S.’s first Gold Standard BRT plan and a major BRT trunk route in the second busiest downtown in the country
• Built political, community, and business support for BRT in Chicago, leading to 3,000 signatures, fifty business and organizational supporters, educational meetings with 35 organizations, 16 newspaper opinion pieces.
• Managed the communications effort for BRT in Chicago, including a traveling exhibition, station design competition, BRTChicago.com website, twitter hashtag, monthly newsletters, and Streetsblog.com
• Oversaw two grants totaling over $1.5 Million from the Rockefeller Foundation, including winning one grant totaling over $1 Million
• Serving as crucial liaison between government agencies, coalition of diverse NGOs, and as representative of Chicago BRT at two national-level conferences
• Managed the BRT Network Plan, analyzing future potential BRT corridors using actual current ridership, bus speeds, farecard data and modeling future ridership changes

• World Bank / Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Program - developed Terms of Reference for developing and launching the first Environmentally Sustainable Transport Forum for Africa (EST-Africa), to provide a mechanism.
• DC Downtown Business Improvement District - Analyzing projected transportation demand and future capacity in the high-growth area of Mount Vernon Square. This includes existing and future multimodal demand and supply.

New York, NY, US

• Synthesized ideas from pre-existing works on carbon emissions analysis tools and their application on different types of urban transportation investments
• Wrote draft of “US ODA in Transportation” analyzing foreign aid transportation assistance with a goal of increasing sustainability and reducing carbon emissions
• Conducted interviews and research on major federal agencies including US Agency for International Development, and the Millennium Challenge Corporation on the nature of transportation assistance

• Led the planning and implementation of Washington’s first protected bicycle lane, which established long-term climate change mitigation infrastructure techniques to reduce the carbon impacts of the urban network
• Project manager for the Georgetown Transportation Study, a $500,000 USD study to imporove throughput and safety that relied heavily on community participation
• Project manager for the 14th Street Study, a $340,000 USD study to improve operations and the streetscape to promote economic development
• Through coordinated efforts with the Mayor’s office and community, promoted economic development and small businesses through projects that improved streetscape, created a pedestrian-only zone, and addressed access to.
• Worked with public finance mechanisms by playing a key role in evaluating and prioritizing projects in the six-year budget; and laid the foundation for the innovative use of parking meter revenue
• Supported the Comprehensive Land Use Plan of Washington, and worked to complement land use planning with transportation investments

• Conducted, recorded, and analyzed interviews with sectors of the administration and management of Curitiba’s model, low-carbon BRT system
• Researched parking policy and implementation around BRT stations to improve the sustainability connection between land use and transportation

Refreshed German language skills while teaching English in various capacities. Hitchhiked to Bordeaux through the Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, Northern Italy and Southern France.

• Founded civic organization to address local public transportation issues
• Led recruitment drive and managed six volunteers, organized television appearance, carried out meeting with mayor, and managed various publicity campaigns around the proposed High Speed Rail station placement

• Project manager for the Transportation and the Environment project – a $50,000 project designed to promote transparency and sustainability in state transportation policy, in which I wrote guest articles in.
• Member of the Sustaining Wisconsin project, in which I drafted chapters of COWS’ Policy Playbook analyzing current policies and suggested alternatives on issues such as cities, economic development, governance, and.

Madison, WI, US

Learned fluent Spanish and Latin American culture while teaching English in various capacities.

• Managed at times up to 20 volunteers and interns, organized 2 stream cleanups, involving local politicians
• As board member, played a key role in deciding future projects and priorities of the organization

Study abroad year concentrating on learning African Literature, French Language and Literature, and the language Wolof

Learned fluent German language and German and Swiss culture while living with two German families in the heart of the Black Forest during a high school year abroad. Included extensive travel to Switzerland.

Master, City And Regional Planning; Transportation

Bachelor'S, International Relations, German