Alain was appointed Secretary General of UITP in 2011. He has been the Association’s President from 2009 to 2011 and was President and member of different UITP Committees and Commission from 2004 to 2009. From 2000 to 2011, as CEO of the STIB, the Brussels public transport operator, Mr Flausch led the STIB through an in-depth cultural change. Before 2000 he was active as top manager in Television and the Chemical industry. He was a practising attorney at the Brussels Bar during the 1970s.

Alain is a member of different international high level groups in the field of public transport, notably the UN High Level Advisory Group on Sustainable Transport. He was recently awarded Professor Honoris causa of the National Research University in Moscow.