Alan Ross
B.Sc. Civil Engineering (Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh ),1973
M Eng. Transportation and Traffic Engineering, (Sheffield University, Sheffield ), 1974
M.Sc. Management Sciences -Traffic Police Enforcement (Durham University Business School, Durham), 1985
Ph.D. Design, Monitoring and Evaluation of Safety Action Plans and Projects, (University of Newcastle), 1991
Alan Ross has wide experience in development of Strategies, Action Plans and projects and in establishing monitoring frameworks to ensure their effective implementation He is a recognized leading international expert on Road Safety issues and has advised multilateral develoment banks , UN regional Commissions , Aid agencies and governments in benchmarking and in the design, implementation and monitoring of Road Safety Strategies, Action plans and initiatives in over 45 countries around the world. He is also a very experienced project manager with particular expertise in design of benchmarking frameworks to assess compliance with desired standards or best practices (all sectors) and in developing monitoring frameworks and performance indicators to ensure effective implementation and delivery of agreed outcomes and impacts (all sectors).
He helped establish the Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP) and was its Technical Director during its first year of operations until its office was established at the International Red Cross. He was also the ADB road safety adviser on the 10 country ASEAN regional road safety project and has been providing intermittent advice to the 10 countries since 2004 . He also assisted ADB to develop an internal action plan to mainstream road safety into its operations and to improve ways to include road safety into its economic evaluation of its projects . He is currently providing road safety advice to European Investment Bank (EIB ) and has been assisting them to develop their internal road safety action plan to improve road safety in all their operations and activities and to strengthen road safety capacity and staff knowledge within EIB
He has a long history of international advocasy in road safety and particpates in regional and Global efforts to improve road safety in the developing world.
He is the author of several international guidelines and manuals on road safety action plans and safety engineering and one on the design and monitoring of aid funded projects.. Many of these documeents are now in widespread use in over 100 countries around the world . Some of these ( ADB Road safety guidelines for Asia and Pacific region and ADB Road safety Audit Toolkit ) are available for free download from the ADB website .He is also the author of guildelines on the design and monitoring of aid funded projects.. More information on his experience and publications in road safety and design /monitoring of aid projetcs is given in the document Alan Ross summary cv which can be downloaded from the "home" page.
