About

Kristi Shalla

I am the Innovation Commissioner at the Swiss Business Hub USA, based at the Embassy of Switzerland in Washington DC. I have been working in international economic development for the last 15 years across the US, Asian and European markets and focus on trade, investment and deep tech R&D project development across borders.

My true passion is transport and equitable development and this blog is dedicated to those topics. Before joining the Swiss Business Hub, I was the Head of Project Development at the Center for Innovation in Transport (CENIT) in Barcelona, Spain where I built public and private partnerships for transport innovation research for global projects. I worked extensively with Asian markets, most notably South Korea.

Publications

1. Seoul: Tale of a Smart City (2024) – Co-authored book with Dr. Sung Jin Park about the development of Seoul as a smart city.
2. Get Ready for a 5G Smart City (2021) – Co-authored article with Dr. Sung Jin Park in The Smart City Journal about 5G development.
3. Implementing Data-Driven Strategies in Smart Cities (2021) – Contributed to Elsevier book with a group of researchers from Barcelona.
4. Smart Transport in the Post COVID-19 World (2021) – Authored article in the Smart City Top Journal published by the Korean Agency for Infrastructure Technology
5. Cooking without Borders: The Global Citizen Cookbook (2013) – Authored cookbook as a fundraising project for Doctors without Borders.