Dr.-Ing. Dipl.-Kfm. Till Ackermann (58) is head of the department economics and business development within the Association of German Transport Companies (VDV). Working at VDV since 1998 he was the first general manager for the VDV-Akademie e.V. and for the (((eTicket Service GmbH & Co. KG. He acquired his master’s degree in economics and wrote his doctoral thesis at the Institute for Railway and Transportation at the University of Stuttgart.
He is a long-term observer of several UITP commissions like TEC, Marketing and Combined Mobility and is also working as a lecturing tutor in the field of Marketing in Transportation. At present, he is coordinating the market research on the Deutschland-Ticket, the New Mobility Forum of the VDV and the integration of autonomous vehicles in public transport.