European Union Agency for Railways

Wouter Malfait

Project Officer

ERA

Biography

Wouter Malfait has a Master of Science in electromechanical engineering (option: electrical engineering) from the University of Ghent and obtained a specialised master’s in management (option: management control) during his professional career from the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (Faculty of the Université libre de Bruxelles).

Wouter started his professional career as research and development engineer in power-electronics at the University of Ghent and at Barco.  He then worked for more than 10 years as signalling engineer at Infrabel and later for 3 years within the financial department of the SNCB-holding. Wouter joined the Agency in November 2010, working as economic evaluation project officer, mainly dealing with impact assessment on TSI related subjects. Since 2020, Wouter Malfait joined as project officer in the ERTMS Unit.

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