Elke Van Den Brandt receives CED’s Leadership Award 2021
- Elke Van Den Brandt receiving CED’s Leadership Award for Cycling Promotion 2021 at the Velo-City conference in Lisbon. Picture: ECF
Elke Van Den Brandt, received the Cycling Embassy of Denmark’s annual award at a special Danish session at the Velo-city 2021 conference in Lisbon on Thursday.
In order to win the Cycling Embassy of Denmark’s award, you must have done something extraordinary to push the cycle agenda in your city, country, or region. You must have shown vision, political courage, innovative ideas, and an ability to get things moving and people cycling.
The CED board’s reason for giving the award this year to Elke Van Den Brandt:
“Elke Van Den Brandt has as Minister for Mobility in Brussels showed how political will and leadership is a strong driver for change. She has introduced a general speed limit of 30 km/h in Brussels, an overall objective of reducing car traffic by 35% and bring traffic-related death down to zero by 2030.
Elke Van Den Brandt is with the introduction of a general speed limit of 30 km/h leading the way for other cities by showing that reducing speed is an important and effective tool to create better cities for people by reducing accidents, noise and air pollution and creating better conditions for walking and cycling in a city where cars still dominate.”
Previous award winners
- 2009: Mike Bloomberg, former mayor of New York City
- 2010: Roelof Wittink, The Dutch Cycling Embassy
- 2011: Lake Sagaris, Diudad Viva
- 2012: Randy Neufeld, SRAM Cycling Fund
- 2013: Hep Monatzeder, Mayor of Munich
- 2014: Tony Lo, Giants
- 2015: Christophe Najdovski, the Deputy Mayor of Paris for Transport
- 2016: Philippe Crist, the International Transport Forum at OECD
- 2017: City of Oslo
- 2018: Carlos Felipe Pardo, Despacio
- 2019: Chris Boardman, Greater Manchester
- 2020: Eamon Ryan, Minister for Transport in Ireland
