Mark Rosekind

Mark R. Rosekind, Ph.D. was the Chief Safety Innovation Officer at Zoox, an Amazon-owned autonomous mobility company from 2017-2022. He was appointed the Distinguished Policy Scholar in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health for 2020-2021. Previously, he was appointed by President Obama (and confirmed by the U.S. Senate) to serve as the 15th Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) (2014 – 2017) and as the 40th member of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) (2010 – 2014). Before his Washington, DC service, Dr. Rosekind founded Alertness Solutions, a fatigue management scientific consulting firm, directed the Fatigue Countermeasures Program and was chief of the Aviation Operations Branch in the Flight Management and Human Factors Division at the NASA Ames Research Center. Dr. Rosekind earned his A.B. with honors from Stanford University, his M.S., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Yale University, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Brown University Medical School.