Siim Kallas, EC Transport Commissioner

Most influential figures in passenger transport 2013

Siim Kallas

Siim Kallas

Siim Kallas,

EC Transport Commissioner

Why is he on the list?

He is responsible for the wider framework of

much of Europe’s transport system, and is restless and interventionist in pursuing a customer-focussed agenda.

What kind of year has he had?

Combative. SNCF and DB have been especially opposed to Kallas’s Fourth Railway Package, which is intended to open up the rail markets of the EU by requiring open tendering of subsidised railway operations, and complete separation of...