EASST Trust Board
Patron
The Rt Hon the Lord Robertson of Port Ellen KT, GCMG, PC
The Right Honourable Lord Robertson of Port Ellen is the Chairman of the Commission on Global Road Safety established by the FIA Foundation in 2006. He served as the 10th Secretary General of NATO and Chairman of the North Atlantic Council 1999-2003. He was Defence Secretary of the United Kingdom from 1997-1999 and Member of Parliament for Hamilton and Hamilton South from 1978-1999. He has received numerous honours (including a total of 11 Honorary doctorates from various universities). He is passionate about road safety, having survived a serious crash in January 1977.
Board of Trustees
Lord Dubs of Battersea, Chairman
Lord Dubs is Chairman of the Road Safety Foundation established in 2008 by the International Road Assessment Programme (IRAP). A former Member of Parliament for Battersea South, he was appointed a Labour Working Peer in 1994, and from May 1997 to December 1999 was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. He chaired the Parliamentary Labour Party in the Lords from 2000 to 2005. He is of Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Groups on Moldova and on European Union Enlargement. He was born in December 1932 in Prague, one of the 669 Czech children rescued from the Nazis by English stockbroker Nicholas Winton. He has written and broadcast extensively on the subject, and has been a keen campaigner on the plight of refugees, serving as Director of the Refugee Council from 1988 to 1995.
Lawrence Sherwin, Deputy Chairman
Lawrence Sherwin is Deputy Director of Communications and Head of Internal Communications for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), London, an international financial institution promoting investment and democratic change in Eastern Europe and the countries of the former Soviet Union. He has a long history of experience in the field of communications, and was formerly Managing Director of America One, Munich, a joint US public broadcasting venture for Europe directed by National Public Radio and Public Radio International. He was also Deputy Director of Radio Liberty and Assistant Director of the Russian Broadcasting Department of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Inc. in Munich, a major Western broadcaster to Eastern Europe and the former USSR.
Jorgo Chatzimarkakis MEP
Jorgo Chatzimarkakis has been Member of the European Parliament since 2004. Re-elected in 2009 he is member of Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee (IMCO). As a member of the Industry, Research and Energy Committee (ITRE) and substitute member of the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee (ENVI) for six years, he has been actively involved in developing directives on a wide range of subjects, most notably innovation issues (CIP), education and research policies (EIT) and CO2 emission reductions for the automotive industry (CARS 21). Furthermore he launched the European Life Science Circle (ELSC), a platform to discuss relevant issues in the context of life sciences and pharmaceuticals. Jorgo Chatzimarkakis was elected MEP of the Year 2007 by the Parliament Magazine in the sector of Research and Technology. In addition, he is Head of the European Parliament's Delegation for relations with the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), President of the German Hellenic Business Association, and Vice-President of the World Hellenic Inter-Parliamentary Association (WHIA).
Emma MacLennan, Trustee/Director
Emma MacLennan is Director of MacLennan Ward Research Ltd, an international public policy consultancy, and Organiser of the FIA Foundation Global Road Safety Scholarship Programme. She is an Advisor to two All Party Parliamentary Groups in the UK Parliament - on EU Enlargement and Moldova - and a Special Advisor to the Rt Hon the Lord Robertson of Port Ellen. From 1999 to January 2008 she was the Director of the John Smith Memorial Trust. The Trust’s main activity is the John Smith Fellowship Programme, a good governance scholarship sponsored by the UK Ministry of Justice and aimed at talented young leaders from the former Soviet Union. Prior to this she was Advisor to the Rt Hon Chris Smith MP (now Lord Smith); to the late, Rt Hon Donald Dewar QC, MP; and Policy Officer on Social Security and Taxation for the Labour Party in the UK.
Anne-Marie Penny
Anne-Marie Penny is the Project Manager of the Kent and Medway Safety Camera Partnership and previously the Road Safety Development Manager for Kent County Council. Anne-Marie worked for the National Westminster Bank for 13 years leaving following a life threatening motorbike crash. Having experienced the trauma of a road crash first hand, Anne-Marie came into road safety and now works passionately to reduce road deaths and injuries and promote greater partnership working. In 2007 she gained a Higher National Diploma in Accident and Safety Management from The Manchester College and in 2008 the Kent County Council Road Safety Team received a Prince Michael of Kent International Road Safety Award for their programme of work, ‘Save 478 Lives’. She is also a volunteer for the Time to Change mental health campaign and Ashford Community Safety Partnership.
Professor Dr. Gunter Zimmermeyer
Prof. Dr. Zimmermeyer recently retired as Head of the Central Division of External Affairs, Government and Political Relations for Robert Bosch GmbHof Bosch, is Supervisory Board Chairman of ERTICO (a public-private partnership promoting the development of intelligent transport systems), and vice-president of the German "Verkehrswacht" road safety initiative.
