Teije Gorris

Unique bicycle infrastructure trainings and workshops! Teije has been delivering trainings, workshops, lectures and keynotes about bicycle infrastructure planning and design across the world. Both in Low, Middle and High Income countries, including the US, India, Philippines, Australia, Israel, European Union and multiple EU member states. Engineers, planners, project managers, decision makers and CSO-representatives from all over the world join Teije each Summer in his ‘Dutch Bicycle Infrastructure Training’ in the Netherlands. His monthly bicycle infrastructure webinar series has been running since 2018, during which he shares a wealth of knowledge. What make these events unique, is his personal approach, analytical but hands-on mentality and the ability to transfer learnings to local contexts and circumstances. 

As Team Lead at DTV Capacity Building – the international training brand of Netherlands based DTV Consultants (developers of the current edition of the CROW manual for bicycle traffic) – he is responsible for development and delivery of DTV’s capacity building activities. Delivering hundreds of trained professionals each year.   

As Executive Director at the foundation Delft Road Safety Courses and as consultant at the Global Road Safety Partnership, he contributes to creating safer mobility conditions in low and middle income countries. Safety of vulnerable road users and active modes are an important focal point. 

Before, Teije held positions at the World Bank, The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research and the Dutch national innovation program ‘Transition to sustainable mobility’.