Monika Heiming has been Executive Director of European Rail Infrastructure Managers (EIM) since 2011. She has been active as a lobbyist and manager of international associations and groupings for a number of years. Heiming was Secretary-General of the European Rail Freight Association (ERFA), having managed and marketed the engineering activities of European engineering group Europengineers EEIG from 1999 to 2004. Prior to this, she was involved in developing UNIFE (the Association of the European Rail Industry) in Brussels, Belgium from 1993 to 1997.