Dr Roman Stiftner is Managing Director of the Austrian Non-Ferrous Metals Federation and the Austrian Mining and Steel Association, as well as Director- General of EUMICON. He is President of the Austrian Logistic Association (BVL), President of the European Shippers’ Council (ESC), Vice President of Euromines and the European Logistics Association (ELA), and a member of the Executive Committee of European Aluminium and Eurometaux.

Roman was CEO of the logistics automation company Dematic GmbH and Senior Vice President of Siemens AG Austria. He represented as a spokesman for the transport, infrastructure, environmental and energy affairs as a member of the Vienna State Parliament from 2005 to 2015. Roman studied at the Technical University Vienna and at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and graduated in 1994. He holds an academic doctorate degree from the Technical University Vienna. Since 2018 Roman has been a Certified Supervisory Expert (CSE) and is a lecturer at the University of Applied Science in Vienna.