Speakers

Mark Stevenson Mark Stevenson is an epidemiologist and Senior Directorat The George Institute for International Health. He is aProfessor in the Faculty of Medicine at The University of Sydney,a National Health and Medical Research Council Fellow and an honorary professor at the Peking University Health Science Center. Professor Stevensonis a member of the Australasian Trauma Society and a lifetime Fellow ofthe Australasian College of Road Safety. Prof Stevenson has extensiveresearch experience in road trauma and public health with experience in low and middle income countries including as a consultant for WHO,UNICEF and the Swedish International Development Agency.
Eric Howard Eric is an internationally recognised expert on the assessment and strengthening  of road safety management capacity within government institutions and the development of practical, effective road safety policies and strategies. This follows a career at senior executive level in Australia within the Victorian State Government (with VicRoads - the Government road authority and road safety agency) for 7 years (as General Manager Road Safety) and in a number of local governments in inner and outer metropolitan and provincial Victoria over 25 years. He has lead and co-authored road safety management capacity reviews - most recently in  Argentina (2009), Armenia, Ukraine, Bosnia, Serbia, Bangladesh, and Montenegro for the World Bank (2006 to 2009) and was co-author and team member for road safety reviews for the Canadian Federal and Provincial Road Safety Agencies (2007) and for a peer review of Road Safety Management in Sweden (2008). In 2008 he conducted a major review of road safety in Indonesia for AusAID and provided advice in 2007 and 2008 to the Indonesian Road Safety Authorities on a proposed road safety strategy project on behalf of the World Bank. Eric chaired the OECD/ITF Working Group which developed the "Towards Zero" Report, published in 2008. Membership of the Group included 22 countries, the World Bank, WHO and the FIA Foundation. The Report examined recent road safety performance across OECD/ITF countries. He was team leader for 3 international research institutions and principal author for the preparation of the Global Road Safety Partnership Speed Management Manual. The manuals are a collaborative effort by the WHO, World Bank and FIA Foundation and the GRSP (which is hosted by the Red Cross in Geneva). Eric's own consulting company was retained by the Victorian Government in 2007 to advise on the development of Victoria's current 10 year road safety strategy, 'arrive alive 2'. His current project activity includes provision of advice to government road safety agencies in most Australian States and he is the independent chair of the all party Parliamentarians Road Safety Reference Group for the Western Australian State Government (since 2007). Following his appointment in 1998 as General Manager Road Safety at VicRoads, Eric was instrumental in improving the safety outcomes on Victoria's road network.  He managed the development of arrive alive!, the Victorian Road Safety Strategy 2002-2007, and oversaw its implementation, which led to a  20% reduction in  road trauma by 2007. Eric liaised closely with the Office of the Minister for Transport (Minister responsible for the Road Safety Act) on a daily basis providing proactive and reactive advice on policy, programs and publicity, in an area of intense media and public interest.   He has been responsible for introduction of the "Safe System" approach to road safety in Australia, its use as the underpinning rationale to address road safety risk and its incorporation into National Road Safety Action Plans since 2004.  He has overseen policy and business case development for a broad range of specific road safety initiatives, obtaining Government endorsement for new policy positions, substantial program funding increases and legislative changes, which his team was then responsible for implementing. Eric Howard's achievements in his 7 years in the General Manager Road Safety role have been formally recognised by the all - party Victorian Parliamentary Road Safety Committee and by the Minister for Transport in the Victorian Government.
Ian Johnston Ian Johnston is a Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) Visiting Fellow. Throughout the 1990s Ian was Managing Director of ARRB Transport Research.  Before that he was a researcher and program administrator in road safety with the Australian federal government (1972 - 1979), Chief Scientist (Human Factors) at ARRB (1979 - 1984) and Director, Road Safety for the Government of Victoria (1984 - 1989). Ian is a psychologist with a PhD in human factors, with over 35 years experience in the transport safety field. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, an Associate Editor of the international journal Accident Analysis and Prevention, and Past-President and Life Member of the Road Engineering Association of Asia and Australasia. Ian's research interest is in how innovation in injury prevention does or doesn't find its way into public policy and practice. He became Director of the Monash University Accident Research Centre in May 2001 and retired in December 2006.
David Sleet Dr David Sleet is the Associate Director for Science in the Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. He joined the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) as a research psychologist in 1981 and helped develop a focus on public health within NHTSA. He was a visiting fellow and acting director of the Road Accident Prevention Research Unit in Perth, Australia (1989-91) and authored a statewide injury control plan for the Health Department of Western Australia. He subsequently developed the first distance learning course on injury control for Curtin University. His published research synthesis on the relationship between blood alcohol concentration (BAC) and driving performance helped create a national BAC legal limit of 0.05 g/dl in Australia. He joined CDC in 1992 and was named Acting Director of the Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention in 1994. He is on the faculty of the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta, where he teaches courses in social and behavioural science in public health. His interests are in applying principles of social and behavioural sciences to injury prevention.
John Gottler NZCE,REA, TP&MC (UNSW) TMIPENZ ASPACI  CW Global Road Safety Champion John is Aurecon's New Zealand Traffic Services Leader and is located in Auckland. John has over 34 years experience in roads and transportation, throughout NZ and internationally which includes the last 20 years specialising in transportation engineering. John has presented on transportation internationally in Australia, The Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, UK, Indonesia, and Vietnam as well as throughout NZ. John is the current Vice President of the NZ Traffic Institute and was the project manager of the Local Government international Road Safety Fact Finding Tour of World best Performing Countries in 2005 to the Netherlands, UK, Sweden and Germany. John has been the City Traffic Engineer of Manukau City, (the second largest city in New Zealand), the Traffic Management Coordinator for Auckland's State Highways and Motorways, the State Highway Safety manager for the Northland Region and is currently the New Zealand Transport Agency's National Road Safety Audit Advisor. John has extensive experience in the impacts and design of transportation networks for the movement of people and goods for across all current transportation modes. John was a part of a group of local government engineers that brought Safety Auditing to NZ in the early 1990's and he was part of the group that developed the NZ procedures and many other technical traffic, transportation standards, codes, guidelines and policy's. John was part of the national guidelines team who developed the national education standard for individual safety auditors which has also been adopted by Australia. John is an Australian Certified Safety Auditor. He is currently also the Aurecon Global Safety Champion, staff trainer, designer, problem solver and Safety Audit Team Leader.