The Commission for Global Road Safety, led by Rt. Hon. Lord Robertson of Port Ellen, was established by the FIA Foundation with a remit to examine the framework for, and level of, international cooperation on road safety, and to make policy recommendations.

The members of the Commission serve in a personal capacity and have been chosen for their particular knowledge and expertise in road safety and related issues. Each has an extremely distinguished record of achievement in his or her field of work. Commissioner serves from each of the Group of Eight (G8) countries and from each of the World regions, bringing varied perspectives to the table.

The Commission published its first report ‘Make Roads Safe: a new priority for sustainable development’ in June 2006. The report took the WHO/World Bank World Report on road traffic injury prevention, published in 2004, as its policy basis and examines ways in which the international community could be encouraged to raise its commitment and funding to global road safety in order to implement the recommendations of the World Report. Since publication, the Commission’s Make Roads Safe report has been widely welcomed across the world as an important contribution to raising the profile of global road traffic injuries. One of its key recommendations, for a first ever Ministerial-level global conference on road safety, was subsequently adopted by the UN General Assembly