Programme and keynotes
We're excited to introduce our keynote speakers, who are top experts in their fields and will be sharing their valuable insights at our conference. We'll be announcing the programme and titles of the keynotes soon!
Meet our Keynote speakers
Maria Segui-Gomez, MD, MPH, MSc, ScD
Maria Segui-Gomez is a physician and doctor in public health who trained at the University of Barcelona (Spain) and Harvard University (USA). Following academic appointments at Johns Hopkins University (USA), University of Virginia Medical School (USA), and University of Navarra (Spain) she became a tenured professor in preventive medicine and public health.
Dr. Segui-Gomez's research focuses on the prevention of injuries, mostly road traffic crashes. She conducted her research at Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, and Universidad de Navarra where she established the European Center for Injury Prevention, which became a WHO collaborating Center. She has authored more than two hundred works in scientific papers, book chapters, and books.
In 2011, Dr. Segui-Gomez was appointed as General Director for Public Health, Drug Dependencies and Consumer Affairs under the Regional Minister of Health of Castille La Mancha (Spain) and in 2012 she was appointed as General Director for Traffic for Spain under the Ministry of Interior where she supervised a budget of approximately 800 million euros yearly. Under her directorship road fatalities were reduced by 18% in Spain. Since 2016 she serves as international road safety consultant having worked for the Federation International de l' Automobile (FIA) and its High-Level Panel, and the World Bank. She currently works for WHO where she coordinated the 2023 Global Status Report on Road Safety.
Pasi Anteroinen
Pasi Anteroinen is the Managing Director of Liikenneturva – The Finnish Road Safety Council and a member on the European Transport Safety Councils Board of Directors.
The Finnish Road Safety Council promotes safety on roads by influencing people’s behavior. It drives positive change in the values, attitudes and behaviours of all road users. Key functions include launching initiatives, encouraging change in public policies and legislation and guiding the road safety work of its member communities.
Pasi Anteroinen has worked for Liikenneturva for more than 20 years. Anteroinen first started as a Research Assistant. He worked on a single article concerning cell phone use to be published in the journal Accident Analysis and Prevention. The process took more than a year which from a perspective of a young man seemed like an eternity. Even though a vital lesson in understanding the value of evidence-based practice, the experience also showed that his personal interests incline towards driving change rather than researching it.
Today Anteroinen is a leading voice in Finnish road safety. His passion lies in campaigning, communications, human behaviour and politics. He believes strongly that the stories we tell each other about road safety can and do make a difference.
By creating a strong narrative or a story you can change society, because societies fix the problems they deem meaningful.
Professor Ashleigh Filtness, PhD, Cbiol, FHEA
Ashleigh Filtness is a Professor of Transport Human Factors and Sleep Science at Loughborough University (UK), based in the Transport Safety Research Centre (TSRC).
Professor Filtness is fascinated by sleepiness and fatigue and their impact on safety. She has spent over 17 years’ performing transportation safety research and has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications. Since completing her PhD in 2011 on ‘Obstructive sleep apnoea and daytime driver sleepiness’, Professor Filtness has continued her fatigue research working at the Monash University Accident Research Centre (Melbourne) and then Queensland University of Technology’s Centre for Accident Research and Road safety (Brisbane) in Australia before moving to the Transport Safety Research Centre at Loughborough University in 2016.
Her research seeks to better understand the situations that contribute to sleepiness/fatigue and how these can best be managed to reduce the impact on safety. She specialises in vehicle operator impairment in road and rail transport and has a wealth of experience conducting competitively funded research, industry and government funded projects seeking to improve safety. Professor Filtness balances her busy part-time work schedule with being mum to daughter Elysia and son Xavier. She and her husband, Edd, enjoy walking and share a passion for hot air ballooning. Ashleigh is an advocate for transportation safety, women in academia, dyslexia awareness, and support for ‘first in family’ to university.