David Lantz
Director, Driving the Shift, Scania, Southeast Asia, Malaysia
David joined Scania Southeast Asia in 2016, focusing in sustainability, internally lower Scania carbon footprint and, externally Scania customers footprint when drive Scania vehicles.
David in his role as in charge of driving the shift towards a more sustainable transport system by developing partnerships to introduce Battery Electric and renewable fuelled vehicles to Southeast Asia with objective to green house gas emissions form the transport sector.
Since he joined Scania Southeast Asia in 2016, he has explored renewable fuel projects together with transporters, transport buyers, fuel producers in and government agenises in Malaysia
He also successfully introduced Scania’s battery electric trucks to Singapore, the first in Asia.
He has been based in Malaysia since 2010 and prior to joining Scania, he worked for Business Sweden, the Swedish Trade and Invest Council where he as a Project Manager and Commercial Liaison to the Asian Development Bank, was in charge of sharing the combined experiences of the Swedish Transportation industry to growing cities in Southeast Asia covering areas such as integrated city planning, Bus Rapid Transit Systems and congestion charging.