Team Zurich / Switzerland

Diego Salmeron, CEO and Member of the Board

Diego Salmeron as worked many years as researcher in spatial and environmental planning at ETH Zurich. His research activities focus mainly on sustainable regional and urban development, including environmental planning issues. He has a broad working experience in Asian countries such as China, Vietnam and Thailand, where he was managing and leading several training and research programs in the fields of regional and environmental planning.

Mr. Salmeron graduated in Rural Engineering at ETH Zurich (MSc ETH). He is registered planner (REG A) and member of the Swiss-Chinese Association. Furthermore, Diego Salmeron has a mandate as an Associate Expert of the Sino-Swiss Management Training Programme.

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Team Kunming / China

Lian Wang, General Manager

Graduated from the University of Applied Sciences Aachen, Germany, Wang Lian holds masters degree in urban planning. He has a strong urban planning experience and competence collating from working in Europe and China. In China, he has worked with Planning and Design Institute, Kunming and Kunming University of Technology for about 5 years. He has been associated with Kunming - Zurich sister city cooperation projects for many years (from 2007), where he has been responsible for project coordination, communication and organizational management. He is supporting LEP since 2011 as project coordinator and became General Manager of LEP Kunming subsidiary in March 2016.

Mr. Wang operates from Kunming, China and supports LEP strongly on its business activities in China.

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Zheng Xi, Chief Planner

Kunming University of Science and Technology, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Department of Planning, Lecturer: 2015.04 to 2016.05,
Qujing City Planning Bureau, Deputy Director responsible for the project Qujing City, Nanpanjiang protection and utilization planning (2015-2018,); Head of the planning bureau, Qujing City, Yuquoshan protection and utilization planning (2015-2018);
2012-2013, Jinghong Dongfeng Farm master plan, control detailed planning, project leader.

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Partners

Dr. Thomas Wagner

Dr. Thomas Wagner is former Zurich Mayor and Honorary Citizen of the Chinese cities Kunming and Dalian. He graduated at the University of Zurich in medicine and law. He was a member of the City Government of Zurich for twenty-four years. As Mayor of Zurich he initiated the relationship between Zurich and Kunming (Yunnan) as sister-cities in 1982. He was responsible for many successful pilot projects between Zurich and Kunming in the cultural, environmental and urban development sector (water distribution, water purification, public transportation, protection of historical monuments, regional planning, etc).

In 2002 he opened a consulting firm for facilitating bilateral relations between Switzerland and China in business, culture and tourism. The scope of Mr. Wagner's business activities extends to all provinces in China. Thomas Wagner was a member of the Swiss Steering Committee for the Olympic Games 2008 in Beijing and the EXPO 2010 in Shanghai.

Thomas Wagner holds several important positions and titles:

• President of the Association Switzerland - China
• Honorary Citizen of the city of Kunming and the city of Dalian
• "Friendship Ambassador" by the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC)
• He was also appointed as Distinguished Professor at the Tongji University (Shanghai) and as Distinguished Professor at the Kunming University (Kunming), PR China.

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Markus Eggenberger

Markus Eggenberger has a broad consulting and research experience in urban, environmental and transportation planning in South East Asia (China, Vietnam, Indonesia). Working at the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC, he was responsible as programme manager at the country and project level and working on projects in the field of urban, communal and environmental planning in Eastern Europe and Vietnam. He was regional advisor on rural development in West Africa and head of the Swiss Contribution Office for Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, based in Bern.

M. Eggenberger has a MSc in Forestry and is a postgraduate in Spatial Planning, both degrees obtained from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, and has a CAS in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) from the Zürich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW).

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Carole Eggenberger

Carole Eggenberger has a broad experience in finance and administration management in both private and public sectors in Switzerland and abroad. In addition, she worked many years for the International Committee of the Red Cross ICRC as well as for the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC. She was chief of finance, human resources and administration in several African and South Asian countries and, in the end, staff officer of the Eastern Europe and Central Asia department based in Bern.

Mrs. Eggenberger has a MSc in Management - Business Administration, degree obtained from the Hautes Etudes Commerciales, HEC Lausanne, and has CAS (Certificate of Advanced Studies) in public policy assessment and local policy, both from the Institut de Hautes Etudes en Administration Publique (idheap-UNIL).

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Suman Rana

Suman Rana is one of the founding partners of LEP Consultants AG and a professional in the field of urban and real estate planning. Before LEP, she has worked for many years as Researcher in spatial and environmental planning at ETH Zurich. Her working experience covers developmental projects of varied scale and complexity at regional, sub-regional and local levels in many countries. Her academic, professional and research fields include urban planning, smart cities, real estate development, business planning, sustainable development and Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
Ms. Rana has education in Civil Engineering followed by Masters in Urban Planning from India and a second Masters of Real Estate from NUS, Singapore. She is trained and hands-on with diverse software tools and techniques on GIS and remote sensing.

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Wei Grueber-Wang

As an Intercultural Consultant for China and an interpreter with over twenty years of experience, Mrs. Grueber-Wang gains a great variety of competence in different fields: financial services, international trading, urban and spatial planning, architecture, sustainable development, transportation, Public Private Partnership, public management, communication, publishing.

Master degree in Economics at the University Zurich, German language and literature study at the Beijing Foreign Languages University. She has a broad working experience in project consultancy and management. Working as Project Manager for a Swiss Insurance company, she developed strong skills as project consultant.

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