Benchmarking global road safety: a private-public best practice to improve road safety

Event Outcomes Include:

• Underscoring the role of the private sector in the Global Development Goal to halve road traffic deaths and injuries by 2030.
• Raising awareness of global road safety challenges and opportunities for private sector engagement
• Presentation of commercial fleet road safety benchmarking tool and results.
• Announcement of 5 new benchmarks in support of the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety (vehicle safety – financing – capacity development – reporting – supplier influence especially as it relates to low- and middle-income countries)

Agenda:

9:00 – Welcome

• Susan Gillies-Hipp, Executive Director, Network of Employers for Traffic Safety (NETS)

9:05 – Introduction

• Jean Todt, UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Road Safety

9:10 – 10:20 Moderated Roundtable Discussion: The Road Ahead to Improve Global Road Safety

• Speaker 1: Ms Sandra Smith, Commercial Engagement and Driver Safety Programme Lead, Environment Health and Safety, GSK
• Speaker 2: Mr Gabriel Kardos, Global Director, Office and Road Safety, Johnson & Johnson, and NETS Chairman of the Board
• Speaker 3: Mr Kusajima-San, Liaison Delegate for WBCSD, Corporate Planning Department, Toyota Motor Co.
• Speaker 4: Mr Thomas Deloison, Director, Mobility, World Business Council of Sustainable Development

Moderator: Susan Gillies-Hipp

10:20 Closing Statement: Moving Forward to Improve Global Road Safety