David Ward, Michelle Yeoh and Greig Craft at the Network Meeting
Greig Craft, Nani Rodriguez, Karla Gonzalez, Michelle Yeoh, John Dawson, David Ward and Bella Dinh-Zarr: Action Network members with Decade of Action tags
The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) has launched an Action Network for Road Safety lead by the FIA Foundation. The Action Network, chaired by the FIA Foundation’s Director General David Ward, met during the CGI’s 2010 Annual Meeting in New York and brought together a mix of private, public and civil society leaders active in road injury prevention.
Participants in the Network Meeting included President Luiz Moreno of the InterAmerican Development Bank, Michelle Yeoh, Global Ambassador of the Make Roads Safe campaign, Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, Chairman of BRAC, John Dawson, Chairman of the International Road Assessment Programme, Greg Craft of the Asia Injury Prevention Foundation, Nani Rodriguez, President of the Gonzalo Rodriguez Memorial Foundation, Joan Walker of Allstate Insurance Company, Denise Dias of the Alicea Foundation, Karla Gonzalez, former Transport Minister of Costa Rica, Patricia Salas of the Toyota Motor Company, Dr Bella Dinh-Zarr of the North American Make Roads Safe campaign and Sophie Faris of the CGI.
The Action Network discussed the forthcoming UN Decade of Action to be launched on 11th May in 2011 and the potential for CGI members to support this ten year effort to achieve a 50% reduction in the forecast level of road fatalities by 2020. A number of participants had already made specific CGI commitments to road injury prevention programmes and it was agreed that further efforts should be made to encourage new commitments from among the CGI membership. The Action Network will serve as a platform to promote road safety issues through the CGI and hold further meetings ahead of the launch of the Decade next year.