John Dawson - Chairman, EuroRAP AISBL
John Dawson is Chairman of EuroRAP, the European Road Assessment Programme, the first regional road assessment programme which he has led since its genesis in 2000.

He is also Chairman of iRAP, the International Road Assessment Programme, which was established in 2006 to coordinate Road Assessment Programmes worldwide and has formed a strategic partnership with the World Bank.

John Dawson is also Secretary of the FIA Foundation for the Automobile and Society and is connected with several safety and transport charities.  He is a well known figure in British and European transport having served for a decade as a government national roads Director for London and Scotland and a decade as The Automobile Association’s Policy and International Director. 

David Lynam OBE - EuroRAP Research Coordinator and Chief Scientist, Transport Research Laboratory (TRL)
David has worked at TRL and the Department of Transport for 40 years, initially in transportation modelling and assessment of novel transport systems for both passengers and freight.  He spent four years at the Department of Transport as a research manager, before returning to work on TRL’s road safety programme in 1983.  He managed the UK Urban Safety project, and was a member of the IHT groups producing guidelines on Accident Reduction and Prevention (1985) and Urban Safety Management (1990).  During the 1990s, he managed the TRL Road Safety Division, and subsequently the TRL road and vehicle safety programme, and then the TRL Safety Department.  He was UK representative on the Forum of European Road Safety Research Institutes for 12 years, chairing the forum from 1997 to 1999. He is now Chief Research Scientist for road safety. He has detailed knowledge over a broad field of road safety research, and a wide experience of European safety issues. He has advised The Department of Transport on setting and monitoring national casualty reduction targets over the last 20 years. David is Research Co-ordinator for the EuroRAP project, assessing performance of rural roads in a range of European countries; this work is now extending to six continents as the International Road Assessment Programme. He also led TRL’s research developing a speed management assessment framework for rural roads for the Department for Transport and the Highways Agency.

Neil Greig - Director, IAM Motoring Trust
Neil has worked in motoring Public Affairs in Scotland since 1992 and in the West Midlands throughout the mid 1980s. He also spent a short time with RoSPA at their Birmingham Head Office as Technical Manager Road Safety.

He has an Honours degree in Geography from Aberdeen University and an MSc in Urban and Regional Planning from Strathclyde.

His current role with the IAM Motoring Trust (since August 1 2007) involves setting the strategic direction for the new IAM Motoring Trust, co-ordinationg its research efforts and working with the media and opinion formers across the UK. He continues to represent the IAM Trust in Scotland.

Neil was Head of Policy, Scotland with the AA Motoring Trust until its demise in December 2006 having worked in a similar role with the AA at Erskine since 1992. He was National Programmes Director for EuroRAP (European Road Assessment Programme) coordinating accident risk analysis work in several European countries.

He is a member of the Scottish Government’s Road Safety Expert Panel, the Scottish Safety Camera Programme Advisory Board and chairs the Publicity Committee of Road Safety Scotland. Neil works with the CBI Scotland Transport Committee and is actively involved with many of the new Regional Transport Partnerships in Scotland.

Jim Fitzpatrick MP - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Transport (DfT)
Jim Fitzpatrick MP was born in 1952 in Glasgow, Jim moved to London in 1974 and joined the London Fire Brigade, leaving in 1997.

He was elected Labour MP for Poplar and Canning Town in 1997.

Jim is married to Dr Sheila Fitzpatrick and has one son and one daughter from a previous marriage.

Jim is a devoted football fan and supports West Ham United, he also enjoys cricket, rugby and sports generally. In addition to this he supports a number of charities.

Åke Larsson - Road Traffic Inspectorate, Sweden
Åke Larsson has more than 30 years experience of road and traffic safety matters at the Swedish Road Administration. At present he is active as a senior advisor in road safety at the Swedish Road and Traffic Inspectorate. Åke is a member of PIARC's road safety committee.

Stephen Stacey - General Manager Government and Technical Affairs, Toyota Motor Europe
Stephen Stacey has been a General Manager at Toyota Motor Europe since November 2001 and today he leads the Government and Technical Affairs Division.

Before joining Toyota he was for fifteen years a consultant and lobbyist in London and Brussels.

He was born in London, studied at Oxford University, from which he has a degree and a doctorate in modern history, and took a diploma in EC competition law at King’s College London. He began his professional career as an archivist and teacher at universities in the UK.

Dr.Ing. Sandro Francesconi - European Commission
Dr Francesconi achieved his degree in Materials Engineering at the University of Trento (Italy) and the International Master “Materials Science and Engineering” at the Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) in 2001.

In October 2001, Dr Francesconi joined the Technical Direction of “Autostrada del Brennero SpA” (Italy), where he coordinated the Company’s participation in several European research projects. Dr Francesconi joined the Road Safety Unit of the Directorate-General for Energy and Transport of the European Commission in July 2005. He is responsible for the road infrastructure safety dossiers and manages several EC funded projects in the field.

Dr Joanne Hill - European Programme Manager, EuroRAP
Dr Joanne Hill is European Programme Manager of EuroRAP and is responsible for the co-ordination and support of national programmes across Europe. Her role includes the development and standardisation of EuroRAP Risk Mapping and Performance Tracking, co-ordinating understanding of other countries’ data, and comparative analyses. She has been responsible for the UK results since 2003. She also leads the Motorcycle Safety Review Panel, that aims to raise awareness and promote change for motorcycle friendly road infrastructure, and is author of the Pan-European Progress Reports in 2005 “From Arctic to Mediterranean” and 2006 “Getting Organised to Make Roads Safe” Pan European Progress Reports, and Pan-European mapping. Before joining EuroRAP Joanne was engaged with research on human performance with blue-chip companies.

Dr Norbert Klassen - EuorRAP Manager, and Senior Research Manager, ADAC Strassentest
Dr Norbert Klassen (38) has worked for the ADAC (the German automobile club) since 2002 as senior researcher with the Traffic Technology Department.

After studying civil engineering (diploma) – with practical experiences in consultancies in Germany and England – he joined the Munich University of Technology.  He has worked in different national and European research projects mainly in the area of conception, impact assessment, and evaluation of information systems as well as on survey design, traffic safety, and traffic flow studies.

In 2001 he received his PhD for a study on “impacts of information systems on individual day trip behaviours”.  He is currently working on user acceptance of new technologies, traffic safety (tunnel, rail road crossings, road infrastructure, trucks) and urban and regional traffic flow studies.

Miquel Nadal Segalà - RACC Foundation
Mr. Nadal holds a Bachelor of Economics degree from the University of Barcelona and a Master of Economics degree from Princeton University (USA). He is a member of the Spanish Corps of State Economists.

He has held several offices in the Ministries of Economy and Finance, Industry and Energy, and Foreign Affairs (as Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs). Later, he has acted as consultant for international institutions, such as the Inter American Development Bank and the European Commission.

At present, as Director of the RACC Foundation, Mr. Nadal has focussed his interest with preference on issues related to economics of mobility and infrastructure.

John Metcalfe - AusRAP and AAA
John Metcalfe is Director, Research and Policy with the Australian Automobile Association (AAA). He has been with the AAA for 15 years where he is responsible for policy development and submissions to the Federal Government on transport related issues. These include road funding, charging and taxation; road safety; and the environment.

Prior to joining AAA, John was a senior executive in a number of Commonwealth Government policy departments and research institutions covering transport, communications and industry policy issues.

John holds degrees in Mathematics and Economics from the Australian National University.

Dr Suzanne Charman - International Programme Manager, iRAP
Dr Suzanne Charman joined EuroRAP in September 2005.  Since joining the organisation she has been responsible for leading work on road-vehicle interactions and heavy vehicles.  She has also been involved in the EuroRAP Central European group.  Dr Charman is International Programme Manager for the International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP); she was involved in establishing the programme in 2006 and manages the pilot programme – developing new data processing tools and inspections across three continents.  Dr Charman completed her PhD in Human Computer Interaction in 2003.  Following her studies she worked as a human factors consultant conducting and managing research in training, learning and performance for security and military applications. 

Harry Cullen - Safety Engineering Standards, National Road Authority, Republic of Ireland
Harry Cullen has been with the NRA since its inception in 1994, working initially as an Engineering Inspector in the Programme Division and laterally as Senior Project Manager for Road Safety.

Prior to joining the NRA Harry spent 10 years working in road design in Local Authorities in Ireland, as well as about 10 years working for Consultants both in Ireland and abroad.

Harry was very involved in the development of the new 2plus1 road type in Ireland, represents Ireland on a number of EU Road Safety committees, and is also involved with the working Group on the Speed Camera Outsourcing Programme for Ireland.

Professor Ryszard Krystek - Gdansk University of Technology
Ryszard Krystek graduated from the Faculty of Civil Engineering at Politechnika Gda?ska (Gdansk University of Technology) in 1966 and afterwards completed his Ph.D. dissertation on the theory of road traffic. In 1972 he was granted the scholarship of the French Government at the Institute of Transport Research INRETS. In 1980, following the defence of his thesis on computer systems in road traffic control, he received the title of doktor habilitowany. Next he lectured at the Technical University in Oran for four years. Following his return to Poland he took the position of the Head of the Communication Engineering Institute at the Gdansk University of Technology.

In 1988 he was granted the title of a professor and became the Head of the Department of Highway Engineering at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Gdansk University of Technology. At this Department he started his research on road traffic safety. In 1993 he obtained the subsidy from the State Committee for Scientific Research for preparing a Polish road traffic safety programme contracted by the Minister of Transport. He formed a multi-disciplinary team that prepared Poland’s Integrated Road Safety Programme, known as GAMBIT 96.

In 1999/2000 he headed the team commissioned by the Minister of Transport to prepare ‘National Road Safety Programme – GAMBIT 2000’. In May 2001 the Cabinet adopted the Programme for Poland in 2001-2010. In 1999, having been elected the Dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Gdansk University of Technology, he established the Foundation for the Development of Civil Engineering and became its first President of the Board.

In 2004 the Prime Minister appointed him to be the Undersecretary of State for Transport Policy in the Ministry of Infrastructure, where he prepared two important documents in cooperation with a multi-disciplinary team of experts:

‘State Transport Policy in 2006-2025’ adopted by the Cabinet in June 2005;

‘National Road Traffic Safety Programme GAMBIT 2005’, as the programme coherent with the 3rd Programme of Road Traffic Safety of the European Union.

Upon his return to the position of profesor zwyczajny at the Gdansk University of Technology he became the President of the Foundation for the Development of Civil Engineering. In 2007 he was one of the founders of the Polish Association of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS Poland), where he is presently the President of the Supervisory Board. Since May 2007 he has been managing a three-year research project entitled ‘Integrated System of Transport Safety’ commissioned by the Minister of Science and Higher Education.

Colin McKenna - West Sussex County Council
Colin has 33 years professional experience working mostly for local authorities on highways and transport matters, the last 12 years of which have been for West Sussex County Council.

Within the Environment and Development Group of West Sussex County Council he holds the post of Head of Highways and Transport, responsible for highways maintenance and management, transport planning, passenger transport (including school transport), road safety, development control, traffic engineering and local transport planning.

He is a member of the CSS (formerly the County Surveyors Society), a member of its Traffic and Environment Committee and chairs its Integrated Transport Working Group. He led a CSS research project on the ‘public perceptions of traffic calming’ which reported its findings in 2005. He is also a member of the Transport Advisory Group for the South East Regional Assembly.

The members of West Sussex County Council place a high priority on reducing road casualties. As a result a number of both road safety engineering and road safety education training and initiatives have and continue to be developed by the authority and some have generated more national interest.

Colin is married and has two teenage boys, one of whom is about to start driving lessons so his interest in road safety will continue.