Dr Paul Nieuwenhuis, MA, PhD, FIMI
was born in the Netherlands and studied in Australia, Belgium, Spain and Scotland, where he obtained two degrees from Edinburgh University. A lifelong interest in cars and car making allowed him to get a job with the Motor Industry Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. The unit was later privatised; this moved him into the consultancy world, carrying out projects for most of the world’s car and truck makers, while he also became a special advisor on state aid in the automotive industry to the European Commission (DGIV). Since 1990, he has been with the prestigious Centre for Automotive Industry Research (CAIR) at Cardiff University. CAIR specialises in the economic and strategic aspects of the world automotive sector, giving it a rare overview of the industry. The centre is self-funding and attracts contracts from car makers, suppliers and other automotive stakeholders, including governments, world-wide. Here he also developed his special interest in the problems of making personal mobility compatible with our environment and with sustainability. Dr Nieuwenhuis has co-authored The Green Car Guide (1992), Motor Vehicles in the Environment (1997) and the influential The Death of Motoring? Car Making and Automobility in the 21st Century (1997), among others. He also contributed to the Beaulieu Encyclopaedia of the Automobile (2000). Dr Nieuwenhuis is a fellow of the Institute of the Motor Industry, a member of the Society of Automotive Historians and a member of the UK Foresight Vehicle Steering Committee. In 2001 he became a founder member of the ESRC-funded Centre for Business Responsibility, Accountability, Sustainability and Society (BRASS) at Cardiff University.
Dr Peter Wells
is a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Automotive Industry Research, which he joined in 1990. He has a particularly wide knowledge of the components and materials supply industry and of automotive presswork, on which he is a noted expert. In recent years his interests in the automotive industry have become broader, such that Dr Wells is now a noted expert on materials choice for vehicle manufacturing, particularly in an environmental context. Other research interests include the distribution, retail and marketing of cars, and the history of car design. He has acted, as a policy advisor to many public sector organizations including the UK DETR, WDA, DTI and UNEDO, is a regular contributor to industry and policy conferences, and has published widely on the industry. Dr Wells became a Fellow of the Institute of the Motor Industry in 1996. Dr Wells is currently working on forecasting the technological and organisational future of the automotive industry.
Alan Bunting
CEng MIMechE ASAE regularly contributes to the Automotive World portfolio on a range of technology topics related to vehicle emissions, diesel and alternative fuel engines, notably in the context of progressively more stringent environmental legislation controlling exhaust emissions. He also writes on vehicle and truck and bus industry developments. He has been writing about commercial vehicles since the 1960s, when he exchanged life as an engineer for one in technical journalism.
Ian Henry
is a co-owner of AutoAnalysis, an automotive consultancy specialising in market analysis and competitor positioning, new market entry, acquisition and joint ventures searches, commercial due diligence and inward investment. Ian has 15 years’ experience in the automotive industry and has particular expertise the components industry and in niche vehicle markets, especially, SUVs, MPVs, LCVs and other low volume segments.
John Mortimer
was formerly editor of Auto Industry newsletter and The Engineer, contributes stories on castings and forgings and use of manufacturing technologies such as hydro forming, tailor-welded blanks, powder metallurgy.
Michael Hinks-Edwards
was a former OEM senior executive for Volvo and specializes in auto sector corporate finance/equity analysis including a key involvement with a European banking consortium.
Anna Kochan
is a graduate in mechanical engineering, and has worked as a journalist specialising in the field of manufacturing technology for the last 20 years. She has contributed regularly to World Automotive Manufacturing on a freelance basis, identifying the new trends and processes automakers are targeting to gain competitive edge.
John Kolodziejski
is Automotive World's specialist on the Latin America automotive industry. He is author of the successful ‘Mercosur's Automotive Industry' (Financial Times Automotive 1998) an in-depth management report covering Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. He is a regular correspondent for Latin America in AWKnowledge's Automotive Emerging Markets and World Commercial Vehicles. He has two years experience as a finance and industry reporter for AP/Dow Jones in the busy Sao Paulo office.
Vanessa Scholfield
is co-owner of AutoAnalysis and has 20 years automotive research experience and has worked on assignments for clients in Europe, Japan and the USA. She has been involved in studies for the car companies, component suppliers, government departments and city institutions. Areas of particular expertise include company analysis, acquisitions search and market mapping. Recent studies have been in the areas of Telematics, fleet management, logistics and specialist components.
Jonathan Storey
is a financial analyst by training. He prepares Automotive World's annual reports ‘World Car Manufacturers' and ‘World Truck Manufacturers', company financial data for each of Automotive World's monthly analysis report, the Automotive Quarterly Review, and is a major contributor to the World Vehicle Markets Analyst monthly analysis report.
Steve Banner
is Automotive World's light commercial vehicles expert based in the UK. He has 25 years experience in the commercial vehicle sector. Apart from his regular contributions to Automotive World's World Commercial Vehicles, he has contributed to What Van?, What Van? Fleet, What Van Online, Commercial Motor, Motor Transport, Bus & Coach Professional, Professional Recovery, and Motor Trader.
John Boley
is a former Sir William Lyons Scholarship award winner. His early experience was in motor sport reporting, followed by sponsorship handling/team management. After a period in automotive industry PR, he began writing about motoring for business - fleet and industry – and then became the motoring correspondent for the Institute of Directors. He is also a regular contributor to many motor industry publications (co-founder of 'Automotive Management') and an expert on crash repair (consultant to VBRA) as well as consumer motoring magazines. Moved to Germany as European Editor to launch 'Automotive International'. Moved to South Africa to present/produce weekly TV motoring programme. Now based in Bangkok, Thailand, reporting the automotive industry of southeast Asia, China and Australasia for media in UK, Europe and USA.
Andrew Mollett
is Automotive World's Japanese auto industry expert, who has been based in Tokyo for the last 5 years. Coving all aspects of the Japanese automotive industry, Andrew is a regular contributor to AWKnowledge's Automotive Components Analyst, World Automotive Manufacturing, Worlds Commercial Vehicles and Automotive Emerging Markets.
Zoran Samardzic
is based in Belgrade, Serbia. He is a freelance journalist with a twenty-year-long experience in the automotive industry. He graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade (B.A. in journalism). Since 1974, he has been a permanent and part-time contributor to more than 40 specialized publications, radio and TV stations in the former and present-day Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Germany and the UK. He is the only journalist specializing in commercial vehicles in the Western Balkans. Well-informed about the activities in the automotive industry in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia, on behalf of Automotive World, he covers all specialized fairs in the sphere of the automotive industry in Central and Eastern Europe. Zoran is fluent in Russian and Bulgarian, and has a passive knowledge of German and most of the languages of Eastern and Central Europe. Zoran is a regular contributor to World Commercial Vehicles and Automotive Components Analyst.
